How to Use statute in a Sentence

statute

noun
  • 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
  • Prosecutions have soared in the 30 states with the statutes on the books.
    Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
  • That vote then triggers a statute that makes the board's files open to the public.
    Stephen Groves, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Well, first, these are types of statutes that exist in state law.
    CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The Arkansas statute is on hold as it has been challenged in the courts.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The statute is named for Josef Neumann, who was stabbed to death at a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah of 2020.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • All of these statutes were dead by the Roaring ’20s, if not earlier.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • The statute carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Arizona's property tax statutes are some of the most complex in the country.
    Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But the board's draft minutes, posted two days later, make no mention of that statute.
    Stephen Groves, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Gorsuch relied on the text of the statute — rather than the legislative intent or purpose — to reach that result.
    Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The statute was constructed by artist Radcliff Bailey, who died last year.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 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
  • This kind of scenario would have no basis in international norms, in U.N. statute, in justice.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024

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