Sentences with phrase «backed by the force of law»

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Given the delicacy of the topic, it is likely that interviewees felt pressured to answer one way or another, not because they actually believed it, but because of trends in the culture they inhabit (trends sometimes backed by law or force).

There are many forces at work, including the force of the Federal law, backed by Federal troops.

«The federal government must take action, but for too long forces in Washington backed by the gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving laws and policy changes.

In one scene, Cole conducts a hostile takeover of the railroad company, literally shooting a fellow investor in the back, while the forces of the law turn the other way, distracted by a phalanx of strumpets led by a one - legged brothel madam played by — who else?

Harry is back on the force (doing stake - outs) and brought back to homicide to solve a slew of underworld slayings, and finds himself the patsy for a secret vigilante group of cops (including Robert Urich, David Soul, and Tim Matheson) who take out criminals untouchable by the law.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has had to abandon plans to force all schools to become academies, but Mr Laws says their political protection went back to the early days of the first academies created by Labour governments.

If Twitter UK can be embarrassed into acting quickly, recently ridding itself (this week in fact) of cyber bullies and other assorted trolls by the British news media, backed by the government, plus have them arrested and publically exposed to the nation, then why hasn't the head office of Amazon in the United States been forced to take the same action when it comes to attacks by trolls on Indie writers who are ordinary law abiding citizens like you and I?

Lawyers have largely failed to push back on the reductio ad processum — please forgive my Latin, alas I went to a Comprehensive School in the 1970s, and linguistic foundation for the unwashed masses went the way of free school milk — being forced on them by various legal services «gurus», crusading in - house lawyers and technology companies determined to reduce law to Lego (nb.

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