Sentence examples for violate the statute from inspiring English sources

But the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is flexible, and even buying a positive reaction could be enough to violate the statute.

Did it violate the statute simply to conceal cash while crossing the border, as the courier, Regalado Cuellar, was convicted of doing?

"Simply 'overhearing' the conversation in the hallway is not likely a crime," said Joshua A. Douglas, a law professor at the University of Kentucky, but recording it "could violate the statute".

In a trip to Michigan by foreign officials to visit a company facility, for example, paying to take them to dinner, a baseball game and a play would not violate the statute.

It also argues that the presumed awards of $250,000 for the pain and suffering of each decedent's family are "woefully inadequate" and "violate the statute" because they do not take individual circumstances into account.

For example, the guidance says that it would not violate the statute if a company provided foreign officials, like employees of a state-owned electricity commission, promotional T-shirts at a trade show, picked up a bar bill or bought "a moderately priced crystal vase" as a wedding gift.

What you try to do is to pull over the ones who blatantly violate the statutes".

But the F.C.C. was not able to determine if there had been actions that clearly would violate the statutes — say, if Google intercepted and made use of encrypted information — because the Google engineer who would know invoked his Fifth Amendment right.

The computer fraud statute is extremely broad, violating the statute is not too difficult, and violators are either never detected or are not prosecuted because of lack of resources or other law enforcement priorities.

Accordingly, anybody charged with violating the statute would not have known that his conduct was a violation of the law.

The law said you violated the statute".