Sentence examples for the existing statutes from inspiring English sources

With acuity, the committee asks why a government that claims no desire to curtail the health secretary's powers does not simply leave the existing statutes as they are.

In 1988, Congress added language to the existing statutes governing mail and wire fraud, which are considered a crime if an individual undertakes a "scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest service".

But unless facts emerge suggesting otherwise, there was nothing in the existing statutes to prevent Santiago from getting his gun back.

Maybe now we can begin the slow but necessary process of transforming perceptions of hackers and reform the existing statutes which enable prosecutors to seek long jail sentences for "crimes,"such as violating a website's terms of service.

"We think there is a responsibility for Congress to review some of the existing statutes governing whether those sorts of mergers have the ability to go through," Tuma said. .

Brian Sims, the first openly gay person to serve in the Pennsylvania House, said that even though some in Harrisburg may oppose all hate crimes laws, they know how unpopular it would be to try to repeal the existing statutes that protect people on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.

"On a de facto basis, that's going on in the state now," said Senator James J. Lack, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, "and what the chief judge has done within the context of existing statutes and the Constitution is great".

The court set a deadline for the completion of vote counts that is significantly later than the deadline in existing statutes.

I can see it now -- juries of our peers seizing our republic from the hands of elected representatives and Supreme Court Justices who no longer care a whit about their will, much less the intent of the Framers of our Constitution, by rendering decisions that may go against the letter of existing statutes, but that would make our Founders proud.

In the 1990s, the F.D.A. tried to regulate tobacco products under existing statutes, but the Supreme Court ruled that the agency had exceeded the authority granted by Congress.

"If things work out as they appear, the chances for things moving legislatively over the next two years are quite limited," Goldston said, adding that under existing statutes, the administration still retains a good deal of authority.