Sentences with phrase «effectively outlawed»

Last year, for the fourth time since the federal government effectively outlawed hemp farming in the U.S. 75 years ago, a bill was introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R - TX) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

«We could realize significant progress in public education if proponents of standards - based reform joined hands with critics of high - stakes testing and effectively outlawed the use of high - stakes tests as sole indicators of student success,» says Panasonic Foundation executive Scott Thompson in a Phi Delta Kappan article.

Today, the country's parliament just passed the Patents Bill, which «will effectively outlaw software patents.»

Still, even Bitcoin's greatest backers acknowledge the possibility that the cryptocurrency's value could plummet — if, say, regulators in China or the U.S. decided to effectively outlaw it, or if a better and more functional blockchain superseded it.

The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can offer, effectively outlawing the business model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.

He and two pastors were arrested this week for defying a new city ordinance that «effectively outlaws» giving food to homeless people in public places, because what even is this world anymore.

Delaware has become the first state in the nation to effectively outlaw corporal discipline of children by their parents.

It would be a far more effective way to see if you're right than to use government to impose a top - down, one - size - fits - all orthodoxy and effectively outlaw what real scientists call a control group.

The UK is among over 100 countries signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions today, effectively outlawing the controversial weapons.

New energy standards that go into effect in 2012 would effectively outlaw today's incandescent bulb.

He wants to use Kemp's cases to stir up public sentiment against slavery and to set a legal precedent that would effectively outlaw slave - holding in England.

In response, lawmakers have enacted Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), more commonly known as «breed bans,» which effectively outlaw certain types of dogs.

There was even a bill to effectively outlaw utility - scale wind and solar in Wyoming, and a defiant measure seeking a two - year moratorium on new wind projects in North Dakota.

A Republican proposal in Wyoming to effectively outlaw the sales of electricity from utility - scale wind and solar to in - state customers didn't make it past the first week of the legislative session.

Not exact matches

Kenny stated: «It is a rule amendment which will go before this year's conference for next year which, effectively, will outlaw Progress as part of the Labour Party, and long overdue it is.»

«Effectively the government are outlawing consensual sex between consenting adults on the premise that it will prevent trafficking and abuse with in the sex industry.

And the movie never effectively sells the story point that made the earlier films so compelling: why a bunch of outlaws and mercenaries would put their lives on the line for a town that finds itself in the grip of a bad, bad guy.

Funny, those green groups that effectively «outlawed» golden rice have missed the boat on Golden Mustard, which has been trialed as an intervention for vitamin A deficiency and found to be five times as costly as traditional supplementation.

The court found that no other drug could effectively help Randall deal with his glaucoma, thereby allowing Randall to become «the nation's first legal pot smoker» since marijuana was outlawed in the 1930s.

Outlawing the potlatch effectively destroyed the relevant First Nations» traditional government as the ceremony was used to make law, confer responsibilities, judge wrongdoing and makes amends for crimes in the community.

The embracive stance toward blockchain technology is in stark contrast to China's crippling curbs against local cryptocurrency markets which has seen initial coin offerings (ICOs) outlawed and crypto exchanges phased out to effectively shutter domestic trading markets.