Sentence examples for to lay and from inspiring English sources

To lay and scrape the ground alone took many weeks.

It took till 1909 for Congress to win the power "to lay and collect" income taxes.

Lots of these materials are easy to lay and relatively pleasant to handle.

But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes".

The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes on incomes".

* Did the Justice feel that the mandate was constitutional because it qualifies as a tax, and thus falls under Congress's authority to "lay and collect Taxes"?

"I believe that there's a growing consciousness across the church that our response to lay and ordained LGBTI Christians cannot stay as it is.

"Children are often used to lay and clear land mines or conditioned to commit atrocities even against their own families and communities".

The much-reviled "individual mandate" was not valid as a regulation of commerce among the states, he concluded, but it was valid as an exercise of Congress's power "to lay and collect taxes".

The decision, from a divided three-judge panel, said the mandate overstepped Congressional authority and could not be justified by the constitutional power "to regulate commerce" or "to lay and collect taxes".

The Obama administration contends that this part of the law, often called the individual mandate, can be justified by the constitutional power of Congress "to regulate commerce" and "to lay and collect taxes".