Example sentences of "[noun] handed down by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the guidance handed down by the Court of Appeal is frequently way out of line with the levels of sentence that are typically imposed for similar offences by the lower courts . |
| 2 | Arguably not , because until recently most political scientists saw the Diet as an institution which merely gave symbolic ratification to legislation handed down by the executive . |
| 3 | But 8m voters were eligible to choose members of the national assembly , a parliamentary body whose main job is to rubber-stamp decisions handed down by the ten-man Revolutionary Command Council through which Mr Hussein governs . |
| 4 | At first sight this provision might seem to be a contradiction in terms , but some light is cast upon it by the Declaration appended at the end of the Single European Act , which , whatever its legal status may be , states that the conference considered that the provisions of Article 130R(5) ( 2 ) did not affect the principles resulting from the judgment handed down by the European Court in the ERTA case . |
| 5 | Our judges treat the techniques they use for interpreting statutes and measuring precedents — even those no one challenges — not simply as tools handed down by the traditions of their ancient craft but as principles they assume can be justified in some deeper political theory , and when they come to doubt this , for what-ever reason , they construct theories that seem to them better . |