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Example sentences for: statute

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So I think the idea of penalizing a great corporation with the use of a 19th-century statute is a suicide on this country.
In particular, the statute does not expressly require that an alien be continuously physically present in the United States throughout the period of representation in order to be eligible for legal assistance.
We have no authority to "rewrite [the] statute and give it an effect altogether different" from what Congress agreed to.
The Court says today, through an unprecedented (and indeed previously rejected) interpretation of the First Amendment, that we will not allow this restriction- and then, to add insult to injury, permits to stand a judgment that awards the general litigation funding that the statute does not contain.
The legislative history of the General Accounting Office Act of 1980, which amended GAO«s access statute (now 31 U.S.C.