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Example sentences for: statute

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The statute in Rust authorized grants for the provision of family planning services, but provided that "[n]one of the funds . . . shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning."
Rosen argues that even if Paula Jones is telling the truth--and even if the statute of limitations on sexual harrassment hadn't expired, leading her to sue on a more exotic theory--the Clinton behavior she describes does not amount to sexual harrassment under the law.
In 1994, Congress enacted a statute designed to help realize to the maximum extent practicable cost savings for official travel from frequent traveler benefits.
There can be little doubt that the LSC Act funds constitutionally protected expression; and in the context of this statute there is no programmatic message of the kind recognized in Rust and which sufficed there to allow the Government to specify the advice deemed necessary for its legitimate objectives.
"[I]f [a statute's provisions] are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations or compensations for each other, as to warrant a belief that the legislature intended them as a whole, and that, if all could not be carried into effect, the legislature would not pass the residue independently, and some parts are unconstitutional, all the provisions which as thus dependent, conditional or connected, must fall with them."