Sentence examples for we have statutes from inspiring English sources

We have statutes that can, at least to the prescribed ages, protect our children from cigarettes, alcohol, voting, driving and joining the military.

Many states have statutes and constitutional provisions making it illegal to cut public workers' pensions.

All systems of law have statutes restricting the time within which legal proceedings may be brought.

Priests and the church are rarely prosecuted because many states have statutes of limitations.

Few other states have statutes putting employee interests so firmly ahead of business interests.

A majority of states (27) now have effective constitutional bans against gay marriage; 43 have statutes outlawing it.

(Three states have statutes permitting second-parent adoptions; nearly two dozen others have granted such rights through the courts).

So far, 10 states have statutes limiting the ability of homeowners' associations to restrict solar-energy systems.

States like Florida, Alabama and Utah have statutes that reserve for the state the authority to set rules that individual restaurants have to live by.

Criminals have statutes of limitations, and if they do their time, they can start over.

Twenty-eight states have statutes permitting the easy dismissal of libel suits under so-called "anti-SLAPP" laws designed to protect consumers' free speech.