How to Use statute in a Sentence

statute

noun
Definition of statutenext
Synonyms for statutenext
  • The state legislature passed the statute by an overwhelming margin.
  • Forty-eight states now have some version of the statute.
    — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Washington is not party to the statute that set up the ICC.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Lee quickly signed off on the statute and it was set to take effect April 1.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • It has since been strengthened by state lawmakers, spurred by the attack to add teeth to the statute.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Willis’s case makes use of a state version of the federal RICO statute.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Countries such as Japan, Canada and Turkey are member states of the statute.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Four states have passed personhood statutes, though one, in Arizona, was blocked by a court.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But common sense doesn’t always win in a courtroom, where statutes reign supreme.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The decades-old statute was invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Florida’s statute must give way to the Constitution and laws of the United States and must not be enforced.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Set in statute, the parameters of early voting are clear, but some of the processes are a work in progress.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the statute last year, and the case has yet to go to trial.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • State statute sets the threshold for felony prosecution of most retail thefts at $300.
    — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Does there need to be some statute from Congress that authorizes removal?
    — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But the review does recommend that the Utah Legislature revise the statute to be more clear.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has repeatedly criticized both the statute and the judge, a Democrat.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The case hinges on the argument that the state’s wrongful death statute should apply to embryos that have not yet been implanted in a woman’s uterus.
    — Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • California, which has the strictest statute, calls for sellers to disclose all deaths going back three years.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The agency scrapped its plan in 2021, saying the process and timeline set by the state's statutes did not allow adequate time for the rulemaking to move forward.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The law is a Florida anti-hazing statute in which the students could face felony or misdemeanor charges.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The plaintiffs in this case use Comstock in one of their arguments, treating it as a straightforward statute and not a defunct law.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In this opinion, the court also found that the statute does not apply to former federal officers.
    — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The city of Buffalo is now suing several gun makers using the New York statute.
    — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The timeframe on those is unclear—there is no federal statute that requires the agency to process ERC claims by a specified deadline.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The statute does not mention intervenors, and attorneys for the groups seeking the records argue that intervenors should not be allowed.
    — Travis Loller The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The concern that prosecutors may be overusing the statute is reasonable.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the statutes relate to conspiracy to commit an offense or to defraud the U.S., and deprivation of rights under color of law.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 20 July 2023
  • What Trump did, though reprehensible, bears no relation to what the statute covers.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The case requires the close parsing of a part of a federal statute, the First Step Act, which aimed in part to reduce mandatory minimum sentences and give judges more discretion.
    — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023

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