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Statutes provide few guidelines as to when a swap line can be extended or under what conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He added that Uefa "respectfully requires further clarification and understanding... in this context to ensure compliance with the Uefa Statutes and to prevent unwanted implications for football governance".

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Statutes give each Cabinet head broad authority to make these appointments.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

Some of the offenses we presented came from a modern and culturally familiar society, drawn from Title 18 of the Consolidated Pennsylvania Statutes.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2022

It was this complex and ambiguous inheritance that the Royal Society adopted when it wrote the word into its Statutes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton