Sentences with phrase «against draconian laws»

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In Northern Ireland, the 1967 Abortion Act does not apply, their abortion law is to this day the draconian 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.

The development is a further sign that civil society is increasingly turning against the more draconian responses to drug law and searching for alternatives.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

The Unknown Terrorist is set against a background of draconian anti-terror laws that were passed in Australia in 2005 following the bombings in Bali, Indonesia.

Make it worth their while with someone fun, like a prize or gift (I know I know, it's against the terms of Amazon's new Draconian laws, but I do it anyway and it works for me.)

Last Friday marked the 31st day of my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new draconian crime law, deceptively christened «Safe Streets and Communities Act.»

The duty to give advance notice and an opportunity to be heard to a person against whom a draconian statutory power is to be exercised is one of the oldest principles of what would now be called public law.

Delivering judgment, Lord Sumption said the bank received no notice of the listing: «The duty to give advance notice and an opportunity to be heard to a person against whom a draconian statutory power is to be exercised is one of the oldest principles of what would not be called public law.»