Sentences with phrase «been illegal since»

Although the legislation was found to be discriminatory and declared therefore illegal 3 years ago, it has actually been illegal since the section came into force in 1998.

They have been illegal since 1968, and unenforceable since 1948.

The sale of elephant ivory has been illegal since 1989 (although there are certain exceptions to the prohibition).

It has said there are reports puppies and breeding bitches are being brought to Ireland from Britain — where it has been illegal since 2007 — so docking can take place.

It's a cheap, thrilling, thoroughly Hollywood portrayal of frontier justice, and it represents an ethos Paul's host Jainchill (Stuart Margolin) urges him to carry in his heart back to New York, where unlicensed firearm possession has been illegal since 1911.

Cannabis sales have been illegal since the 1970 Controlled Substances Act was passed, with the only exceptions being the products made from the «mature stalk» and «sterilized seed» of the hemp plant, which could still be sold since they contained little to no psychoactive components.

The use of great apes - man's closest genetic relations - is particularly controversial and has been illegal since 1986.

The gassing of badgers has been illegal since 1982 and for good reason.

That is not to say that schools should continue to sell soda (and in California, as you well know, it has been illegal since 2009 for even a high school to sell soda on campus during the school day) but their contracts «with Pepsi» generally are for the sale of bottled water and 100 % fruit juice.

This form of public announcement has been illegal since the 1930s, but with the transparency and openness that Web platforms provide, it is now legal to solicit expressions of interest from potential investors.

House Republicans sued the Obama administration over the plans, arguing that the funding was illegal since it had not been appropriated by Congress.

But now, because of Dodd - Frank, such assistance is illegal since the law stipulates Fed lending must be broad - based and not directed toward a single institution.

They are called «manual scavengers» and their job is described as the «worst job in the world,» despite it being illegal since 1993.

At the same time, some district educational leaders are threatening that students will not graduate if they don't take the test, even though such threats are illegal since students and parents have the constitutional right to refuse such government - imposed coercion.

Culver City then submitted an impacted party comment letter to the Public Works Committee making the assertion that the proposed exemption was illegal since it was «improperly piecemealing» a very large project into a set of related smaller components.

I don't know if it's illegal since I believe he is the owner of said company that is writing all three signatures.

Not exact matches

Since the diplomats were stationed in Saudi Arabia, where it is illegal to buy alcohol under Islamic law, they had grown skilled at brewing beer in their homes.

Planned Parenthood has been mired in controversy since last summer, when videos from an anti-abortion group surfaced alleging the organization engaged in the illegal sale of fetal tissue from abortions.

In three cases since 2014 — Sysco buying U.S. Foods, Staples buying Office Depot and Aetna buying Humana — the companies offered a fix but their deals were still deemed illegal by the judge hearing their case and the mergers were scrapped.

The idea here is not to litter and scatter them around the streets, since that would be illegal and not very targeted marketing.

Since the policy was written in 2009, legal advocates argue, several court cases have set new precedents that could make some CBP electronic searches illegal.

Trump: «Since I was elected, illegal border crossings — and this is without the wall, before the wall — have decreased by more than 75 %, a historic and unprecedented achievement.»

Trump has been making the claim since November, arguing without any evidence that illegal voting was the reason he lost the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Penraat, who has hosted 135 guests since February 2012 and could have earned as much as $ 118,300 on an annual basis, argued that there was nothing illegal about renting three of the apartment's four bedrooms to «roommates,» reports Law360.

He explains that since marijuana has been illegal for so long in the majority of the country, most growers haven't been able to experiment to produce plants of such size.

Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

Uber Australia has been profitable since it incorporated here on 11 September 2012, when ridesharing was still illegal across Australia.

Since Arpaio was first elected in 1992, he made national headlines for his treatment of prisoners in Arizona's prison system — in ways that were ultimately ruled to be cruel and unusual — and for his illegal profiling of members of Maricopa County's Latino population.

And since Bitcoin is only a cryptocurrency, it is not strictly illegal to play games of luck.

Congress might ban «bump stocks»: Since the Las Vegas shooting in October, there's been bipartisan support to ban a device the shooter used that can make a legal semiautomatic weapon fire more like an illegal fully automatic gun.

[289] Buying real - world goods with any virtual currency has been illegal in China since at least 2009.

Bitcoin tumbled probably the most since July after China's central financial institution mentioned preliminary coin offerings are illegal and asked all related fundraising activity to be halted immediately, issuing the strongest regulatory challenge to this point to the burgeoning marketplace for digital token sales.

These religious people have been doing illegal things like this since the Constltution was ratified.

Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.

Since only the first marriage is legal, I don't see what they are doing that is illegal.

My point exactly since some deluded physc took gays off the dsm with no research and no verification and harassing by gays to me its still illegal and to alot of others not to mention it will never be legal in the Bible

And since virtually all information about an organization created for clandestine activities is secret, there were no prosecutions for, illegal programs.

Since morality, or beliefs, religious or otherwise, strike me as the key driving force (after all, I'm even posting this comment in CNN's «Belief Blog») in an anti-choice individuals logical reasoning for thinking the way they do, I would like to know exactly how making abortion illegal will help you sleep at night, or register as a moral victory.

The demand for a work permit was perplexing, since it appeared they were requiring him to obtain one from a Turkish sponsor for an activity they told him was illegal.

It is frustrating to see William Chip's well - documented argument of the economic and political evils of illegal immigration rebutted from Scaperlanda's supposedly moral standpoint, when in fact the victims in this scenario are the laborers working without regulations for workplace safety, without employment benefits, and even without police protection (since contact with law enforcement is associated with deportation).

Regardless of one's view on illegal immigration, the RCC should be taxed since they are acting as a political group.

And yet the swell of immigrants (more than twelve million illegal and eleven million legal since 1986, according to his figures) is still dwarfed by the cohort of unborn children lost to abortion in the United States (more than twenty - nine million during the same two decades).

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

So the idea that only criminals have guns, if guns are banned, kinda a falls apart, since all the illegal weapons had to come from legal owners, (who didn't defend themselves?)

Such a State is thrown back on positive law, which is purely relativistic, and can cause serious problems — for example, the newly unified Germany had great difficulty in prosecuting Erich Honecker for his crimes, since they were not illegal under the old system of the DDR.

Patrolmen were armed with whips, and in some cases guns, and were given the discretion to beat and even kill black people — even compliant ones (it was not illegal at the time to kill a black person since they were deemed non-human).

These mezuza bans are considered illegal discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, because only a Jew would have any need to put something on the door frame, so the rule (even if we assume the rule exists) negatively impacts only Jews, and nobody else... and there's no legitimate justification for the rule, since it's not a safety issue and it's too small to be considered unsightly.

Since abortions will be illegal, the poor will be forced to go to filthy back alleys, where the doctor may be a veterinarian or a «doctor» who has no license to practice.

Since there was no «book», there was no evidence the officers could use to convict them of illegal performance.

They have been involved in illegal drugs since their mid-teens.