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Example sentences for: statute

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But these legal arguments are pedantries to many Arabs and Irish residing in the United States who fear they will be unjustly targeted under the new statute.
The NYT and LAT do a good job of laying out the legal complications: both explain that the usual rules don't apply if the gift giver has a prior personal relationship with the giftee, and the NYT also notes that the courts are still struggling with whether or not the illegal gratuity statute requires a concrete quid pro quo (either past or promised).
"[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."
During his disastrous campaign in Russia, he found time in Moscow to draw up a new statute for the Comédie-Française (the national theater), which had been dissolved during the Revolution.
The tribe's decision put it in direct conflict with Florida's rather restrictive bingo statute.