Sentence examples for using a law from inspiring English sources

We can't be using a law that was enacted in 1940".

The police have been using a law to take into custody anyone suspected of "corrupting moral values".

The Progress deal was the third foreign takeover turned down by the current Conservative government using a law that previously was mainly known for rubber-stamping acquisitions.

"We are using a law to seize land for security reasons, and the law is very clear," a defence ministry official told Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper last month.

The Crown Prosecution Service caused controversy by using a law aimed against nuisance calls – originally to protect "female telephonists at the Post Office" in the 1930s – rather than specific bomb hoax legislation, which requires stronger evidence of intent.

"Clearly customers need to take advice, but millennials are not going to take kindly to the authorities using a law that pre-dates the penny-farthing to tell them what they can or can't do on the streets of Britain".

Free testosterone was calculated using a law-of-mass-action equation whose dissociation constants and assumptions have been published (17).

Like Twitter, it may have used a law to file secretly.

This year for the first time, the United States used a law that allows it to prosecute torture in other countries.

The Administrative Office of the Courts had banned a type of plea bargaining in April that used a law that did not apply to most traffic offenses.

Mrs. Clinton appeared to say nothing to contradict what they had already discovered about how the private server was used, a law enforcement official said.