Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] courts [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 2 | One of the most controversial uses of the power is to prevent demonstrators reaching the scene of the demonstration , a use upheld by the courts in Moss & Others v. McLachlan ( H.C. , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | A parliamentary enactment whose effect would be the destruction of any recognisable form of democracy ( for example , a measure purporting to deprive a substantial section of the population of the vote on the grounds of their hostility to Government policies ) could not consistently be applied by the courts as law . |
| 4 | Allan states that a ‘ parliamentary enactment whose effect would be destruction of any recognisable form of democracy … could not consistently be applied by the courts as law . ’ |
| 5 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 7 | The construction which is put forward by the Commissioners is one which was adopted by the courts in respect of section 4 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 , upon which section 265 of the Act of 1986 is plainly modelled . |
| 8 | It will depend upon which of the three models outlined above is adopted by the courts in relation to that power . |
| 9 | Yet those who objected to ‘ pro rata to contracted payments ’ pointed in support to the distribution method commonly used by the Courts in Administration Orders . |
| 10 | The same principle , looked at from its negative side , may be thus stated : There is no person or body of persons who can , under the English constitution , make rules which override or derogate from an Act of Parliament , or which ( to express the same thing in other words ) will be enforced by the courts in contravention of an Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | Such an ‘ abuse ’ was exemplified by the courts in Wheeler v. Leicester City Council where the City Council ( which had adopted an anti-apartheid policy ) banned the Leicester Rugby club from using a Council recreation ground because three members of the club had joined an English touring side to South Africa . |
| 12 | They may be recognised by the courts as part of the constitutional background against which a particular decision is taken ( Carltona v. Commissioner of Works ( C.A. , 1943 ) ) , but will not be enforced directly . |
| 13 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 14 | And the same may be equally true of other apparently arbitrary decisions taken by the courts in relation to bail or custody , and venue for trial . |
| 15 | Cruz admitted unfreezing the bank accounts ; his claim that he had the legal authority to do so was rejected by the courts on Nov. 17 . |