Sentence examples for use of the statute from inspiring English sources

The other judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, said it was "an illegitimate use of the statute".

Some justices seemed deeply concerned about the use of the statute.

The Supreme Court, while not foreclosing the use of the statute for that purpose, has been notably skeptical.

Labour was also drawn to meaningless legislation whose purpose was more to embarrass the opposition than to make proper use of the statute book.

The most sweeping use of the statute was in Iowa, after an immigration raid in May 2008 at a meatpacking plant in Postville.

"Relying on the material witness statute to detain people who are presumed innocent under our Constitution in order to prevent potential crimes is an illegitimate use of the statute," Judge Scheindlin wrote.

Others think that Kennedy could not live with sending an innocent man to prison through a cute use of the statutes.

The very prosecution is said to be a part of the unconstitutional scheme and the scheme, including future use of the statutes, is quite irrelevant to the prosecution in the state courts.

The money thus raised, though paid into the Treasury, is appropriated in advance to the uses of the statute, and does not go to the general support of the government.

In arriving at this conclusion the courts recognized that the term "seaman" does not have a fixed and precise meaning but that its meaning is governed by the context in which it is used and the purpose of the statute in which it is found.

But the first use of the untested statute was in the charges against the two men accused in the three-week sniper attacks that left 10 dead in the Washington area.