Sentences with phrase «for draconian laws»

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Meanwhile, immigration restrictions make it more difficult to import the cheap labor that would be competitive with overseas operations; for an example, see the debacle now taking place in Alabama after the enactment of a draconian immigration law.

A draconian new draft for a national security law, likely to be introduced this year, specifies that the state has full access to any data it demands — already the case in practice — and that any foreign firm working in China must keep all their Chinese data inside the country.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

For some conservative American critics, the word is sinister — connoting a draconian legal code that they contend threatens to subvert American law.

Gays were killed for being gay — and they still were — there's no such thing as a law draconian enough to keep people from being themselves, to force that degree of conformance.

This isolation also suited a particular line of approach by the Catholic hierarchy — it facilitated the draconian Irish censorship laws, for example.

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 Law Society, the Bar Council, Liberty and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants have all backed the fight to halt the draconian lLaw Society, the Bar Council, Liberty and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants have all backed the fight to halt the draconian lawlaw.

Equally dramatic was action Paterson took in overhauling the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws that for 35 years had deprived judges of sentencing discretion and doomed tens of thousands of low - level drug offenders to long prison sentences.

Mr. Cabrera and his high - profile supporters, Congressman Charles Rangel and Public Advocate Letitia James, came under fire for his conservative views on abortion and same sex - marriage, and after a video emerged of the councilman praising Uganda's draconian anti-gay laws.

The Democratic Party has been the avenue for Carl Heastie's success and he is likely constitutionally opposed to draconian law and order measures.

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.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

[23] Many such laws have gained notoriety for the draconian consequences they impose.

* A draconian law denying government grants and loans to people with even a minor drug offense should be repealed, the New York Times Editorial Board writes: http://nyti.ms/1p4r1De * A coalition of community groups is asking for more money to help cover college costs for youths who have been in New York's foster care system,...

«The challenge for now is how do we hold them accountable to do what's right and follow the law but also don't be so draconian on them that they can't continue to operate as a quality educational institution,» Grosso said.

Education Reform Now claims credit for New Jersey's draconian anti-teacher tenure law that was designed to undermine the rights of teachers and the teaching profession.

The tough interventions envisioned under the original Obama proposal were attacked as too draconian and inflexible, so the new law will let each district with a low - performing school — remember, these are the low - functioning districts that let the school flounder in the first place — decide what's best for them.

Our first session behind the wheel came, not at the track, but on the road to Road America, a wide Interstate nearly devoid of traffic, except for a couple trucks and a few citizen sedans all cowed into submission by what was no doubt draconian enforcement of the ridiculous speed laws in this state (55 mph???).

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.)

I am dismayed at the enthusiasm that many display for giving the US Treasury draconian powers, allowing them to effectively destroy contract law.

Though better known for the draconian drug laws they supported, the Rockefellers helped to transform Albany into a modern city that can serve as an example for other cities trying to find their voices in the new century.

The banks wrote some of the most draconian laws ever written governing loans, where if the loan goes into default, the borrower can't get a business license for his profession,

PORTLAND, OR — A landmark study published last year in one of America's most respected scholarly journals provides powerful evidence that «feel - good» legislation — indiscriminate and / or unenforceable bans, as well as draconian sanctions applied to behavior that is already illegal — degrades respect for law and reduces compliance, while aggravating (or at best, failing to improve) the problems these laws were supposedly enacted to solve.

For instance, my store is located across the bay, where such a draconian law is not in effect.

In August 2013, US Attorney General Eric Holder admitted that mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences were «draconian» and that too many Americans had been imprisoned for too long for no good law enforcement justification.

The new law also gives broad powers to the Minister of Public Safety to designate certain arrivals as «Designated Foreign Nationals» - a label that carries mandatory detention, accellerated timelines, restricted access to the refugee system, and draconian conditions on refugees, including a five - year waiting period between a successful claim and an application for permanent residency.

I do not think we need to add draconian professional regulation, but imagine what would happen if, in addition to a librarian and clinician on every ABA law school inspection committee, we had a sociologist or other social scientist examining the data on careers, the preparation that students have for the careers that they will pursue, and the quality of the teaching and evaluation assessment related generally to the third apprenticeship.

Ontario has one of the most draconian penalty provisions for impaired driving anywhere in the world and our law - makers show no signs of reversing that trend.

(50) It falls for the High Court to consider whether the particular outcomes of the principles applied by the majority in the Full Court «weigh in favour of a somewhat less draconian limitation on the ability of the common law to recognise and protect native title rights and interests».

[97] It falls for the High Court to consider whether the particular outcomes of the principles applied by the majority in the Full Court «weigh in favour of a somewhat less draconian limitation on the ability of the common law to recognise and protect native title rights and interests».

One should not forget that it was Jim Flaherty who had his goons and thugs in his ministerial cabinet post who wrote and got passed into law the, insidious, draconian, and garbage Fintrac legislation that mandated 110 thousand Realtor's to be forced into the arena of spying for the state and be put in harms way by the state.