How to Use statutory in a Sentence

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• The phase one probe will now start and the CMA set a statutory deadline of Oct. 18.
  — Katharine Gemmell, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• There is a reason Smith does not have a solid statutory crime to rely on.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
• The property company dropped the bill and paid an amount equal to statutory damages for the claims Pickard outlined.
  — oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
• The court ordered the clerk's office to pay the inmate $1,000 in statutory damages, the maximum allowed.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2023
• The statutory maximum for both subsections is up to 10 years in prison.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• In the absence of an indictment, a judge can override the statutory deadline after a hearing.
  — Shayna Jacobs, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• Constitution statutory rules and, and precedent and things like that.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
• Since the court lacked statutory authority to sign off on Covington’s name change, the change must be voided, the lawsuit argues.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• Lucio's other claims did not meet statutory requirements, the appeals court found, and will not be reviewed.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• The publisher is seeking statutory damages of up to $4 million.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• The GOP wants to lower spending in exchange for raising the statutory borrowing limit.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2023
• This brings us to another salient question: Must the outer limits of statutory reach be fixed with certainty?
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• However, Baude and Paulsen note that that statute largely lapsed owing to statutory revisions in 1948.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• The available records include statutory language for each charge but do not detail what Falconer is accused of.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• The charge carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Those will be the limiting factors rather than statutory law on density.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The drop was in part caused by statutory changes, including a new minimum of $600 in unpaid rent required before a case could be brought, court officials say.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• Much like District 18's incumbent, White failed to meet statutory requirements to get on the District 1 ballot.
  — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2022
• The felony carries a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, and the misdemeanor could result in up to one year in prison, officials said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• The last time the General Assembly met in a special session was in 2018, when lawmakers failed to finish their business by the statutory deadline.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2022
• Medicare officials had encouraged the plans to do so but lacks the statutory authority to compel them.
  — Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• One of the pleadings was a motion to dismiss the case for prosecutors’ failure to comply with the statutory provisions of the Office of the State Prosecutor, Seidel said.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2022
• Hall pointed to the fact that her office certified results by the statutory deadline of June 13 as evidence of a successful election.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
• Ten states and the District of Columbia have given this understanding statutory force.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• But Congress sets a statutory ceiling on that debt, currently $31.4 trillion, which was reached in January.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, wsj.com, 30 Apr. 2023
• The statutory formula for calculating the dividend was last used in 2015.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Haitian, Venezuelan, and Honduran refugees and asylum seekers were arriving in large numbers by plane and bus to Massachusetts, the only state with a statutory right to housing.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• Fonticiella asked Rudofsky to consider a low-end statutory sentence of 15 years in prison.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 18 Nov. 2022
• Now, there is no shortage of briefs laying out the statutory and constitutional arguments for giving Grutter the old heave-ho.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• The conspiracy and wire fraud charges each carry a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024