Example sentences of "law [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft constitution had been submitted to the House of Representatives on June 4 [ see p. 38278 ] but could not become law until it had been approved by referendum , according to President Joseph Momoh . |
| 2 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 3 | In both the United Kingdom and Ireland an international agreement has no effect in municipal law unless it has been incorporated by legislation ; therefore in neither State could individuals use this provision to bring a legal action to prevent their government from entering into a new or modified agreement . |
| 4 | This bilateralism ‘ contributes to an ‘ orderly ’ outward appearance of the law because it facilitates a precise identification of who has a right or a claim against whom and who may enforce it' . |
| 5 | Pragmatism is a skeptical conception of law because it rejects genuine , nonstrategic legal rights . |
| 6 | Thirdly , it can be argued that the discretion creates unacceptable uncertainty and unpredictability in the law because it allows a person to be refused relief on unexpected and ill-defined grounds . |
| 7 | He clashed with the former Labour MP on air , arguing the bombing was ‘ justified ’ in law because it had been ‘ reasonable in all the circumstances ’ . |
| 8 | The appeal to the EAT was based on the issue of whether the Tribunal had relied on a correct statement of the law when it referred to an excerpt from Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law ( based on the EAT decision in Richmond Precision Engineering v Pearce ( [ 1985 ] IRLR 179 ) which stated that ‘ [ t ] he crucial question is whether the terms offered were those which a reasonable employer could offer ’ . |
| 9 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 10 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |
| 11 | Mounting pressure was brought upon judges to interpret the law as it suited the government , and when the courts refused to be cowed , the police resorted freely to administrative action . |
| 12 | Finally we discuss press reporting of attempts to change the situation , firstly , in Chapter 6 , by research and official reports , and then in Chapter 7 , by changing the law as it pertains to the legal processing of sex criminals . |
| 13 | The government consistently refused demands from many quarters to reform the NSA but in October 1989 the DJP did agree to support a revision of the law as it related to the Agency for National Security Planning . |
| 14 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 15 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 16 | This chapter provides an outline of the law as it relates to the work of a hotel receptionist . |
| 17 | The criminal law as it relates to the catering industry is more a means of regulating the standards of business practice . |
| 18 | The two questions are one if we understand the obligation to obey the law as an obligation to obey the law as it requires to be obeyed . |
| 19 | Parliament would also retain the ultimate right to cancel or vary a part or the whole of Community law as it applied to the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 21 | Further , in our system the rule ‘ stare decisis ’ applies as firmly to statute law as it does to the formulation of common law and equitable principles . |
| 22 | Because it is not subject to the paramount law of a written constitution , it can make or unmake any law as it chooses . |
| 23 | Although the wording of the Act suggests that it could be used in cases of abuse , it seems that there is such a general sense of unease about the law as it stands that some new and especially designed statute will be necessary for effective provision . |
| 24 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 25 | But the comparison with the position of the citizen , on the law as it stands at present , is most unattractive . |
| 26 | We recommend that … there should be put on the statute book a ‘ definition ’ based on Lord Macnaghten 's classification , but preserving the case law as it stands . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , local authorities may enforce the law as it stands . |
| 28 | Will he bear it in mind that the law as it stands does great injustice and that many women are suffering life sentences that they should not be suffering ? |
| 29 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 30 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |