Sentence examples for wording of statutes from inspiring English sources

In its 4-to-3 decision, the court said laws were written to be applied to a range of different situations, and that therefore the wording of statutes was not always precise.

In the wording of the statute, they have an "affirmative duty" to do so.

Mr Feinberg went beyond the strict wording of the statute and consciously "narrowed the gap".

"The wording of the statute is not necessarily applicable to the securities industry," she said.

District Attorney Dan Conley said prosecutors are hoping state lawmakers will change the wording of the statute by the end of this legislative session.

Lord Denning also noted that the law had "misfired" because of "the wording of the statute and the way the courts had applied it".

In the case, the plaintiffs insist that the wording of the statute allows the government to subsidize health insurance purchased on the fourteen state-based exchanges but not on the federal exchange, which covers the remaining thirty-six states.

A divided three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit said strict adherence to the wording of the statute would lead to an "absurd result" in cases where the school district was uncooperative or could not supply appropriate special education.

But the wording of the statute left substantial disagreement about whether the obligation it imposed extended beyond the health of the plan itself to responsibility for mishandling an individual account.

Once again referring to the wording of the statute, Justice Scalia said that the agency's mandate when setting standards for pollutants was to "identify the maximum airborne concentration of a pollutant that the public health can tolerate, decrease the concentration to provide an 'adequate' margin of safety, and set the standard at that level".

Suing on behalf of Huang and Green, EFF's complaint argues that the wording of the statute requires the Library of Congress to grant exemptions for all conduct that is legal under copyright, including actions that rely on fair use, when that conduct is hindered by the ban on circumvention.