Sentences with phrase «laws outlawing»

Justice Anthony Kennedy often decides cases in sweeping terms — even when the result is liberal, as in Lawrence v. Texas, which invalidated criminal laws outlawing homosexuality.

Christie, along with Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman, were the subjects of Canadian Lawyer's March 2009 cover story «War of the Words,» which looked at the battle between the free speech advocate and the push for laws outlawing hate.

Under the phase - out, new lighting standards laws outlawing the old - fashioned light bulbs will be enforced by 2009 or 2010.

Lobby your local autoritys to pass laws outlawing pens on laegs, lobby for police to enforce current animal cruelty laws, lobby for tougher cruelty laws and tougher sentences.

Finally, the writer [apparently] operates on the mistaken view that if we can only get at least 51 percent of the voting populace to be swayed sufficiently by our coalesced, power structure, emotional appeals, and biblical truth (used only where it will work), then we can pass laws outlawing abortion.

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

This fall, lawmakers in California made yet another dramatic move in response to the company's Orca show: They passed a law outlawing breeding the whales in captivity.

However, the United States has no federal law outlawing discrimination nationwide other than from federal executive orders which have a more limited scope than from protections through federal legislation.

To this end, the governor was said to have backed the law outlawing open grazing, saying it would promote the economy and protect lives and property of people, especially in Agatu, which had been taken over by Fulani herdsmen.

Frustrated and indignant citizens bombarded Congress to complain about the devices, and our representatives quickly passed a law outlawing the interlocks.

The question is important because, typically, state gambling laws outlaw games based entirely on chance but may allow those that involve skill or judgment.

This law outlaws treating employees of one race differently from another race.

And various family planning measures were illegal in the United States at the time — the Comstock Laws outlawed the use of contraceptives and abortifacients.

Not exact matches

Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly white and lending mostly to white borrowers.

In 1986, with the rise of gang and drug violence on city streets, we had The Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act, which outlawed armor - piercing bullets.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

They also ruled that the travel ban would break immigration law which outlaws discrimination on the grounds of nationality.

Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law.

However, these issues start with the disadvantage (for their proponents) of trying to overcome the bulwark of human rights laws which, since the end of the Second World War, have increasingly placed duties on nations to protect life and to outlaw any deliberate deprivation of life.

Pray to the poor and make no comment about the gays being killed in Cameroon or Russia and the laws to outlaw their existence.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

It's impossible to write a law that outlaws only the abortions that disturb us, and allows the ones we think are okay.

A proposed law to outlaw male circumcision in Iceland has sparked outrage among Christian, Jewish and... More

Newtonian physics was the law of the land because the church had begun to outlaw science and held back science.

Just because - I - don't agree with it, doesn't mean that the LAW should outlaw it.

In the United States more illegal shooting happen in the Washington DC and Maryland area where guns are totally outlawed than in free to carry states like Arizona where I live because chances are in the DC area the hard working and law abiding citizen does not carry a gun.

They would love to outlaw abortion and bring back sodomy laws like the ones struck down in Texas.

(See their attempt to outlaw Shariah Law, the «Don't Say Gay in School» Bill, the «Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act» and more.)

If I understand him correctly, the distinction between the outlaw and the law - abiding is, at least with respect to immigration policy, morally irrelevant.

On these issues, Catholics enter covenants and have shared experiences and intuitions with Jews, secular rationalists and liberal Protestants who do not find the case for outlawing abortion to be part of their reading of natural law.

Someone who warned that such secularist dreams did not result in tolerance or neutrality but rather in the outlawing of the moral basis for law itself.

He sided with the outlaws, not their law - breaking.

When, in reality, it's His truth about the outcome He is teaching and what directions if taken by an outlaw (aka criminal mentality) or a faithful person who respects His law.

A proposed law to outlaw male circumcision in Iceland has sparked outrage among Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.

Nick, OK I see in Matthew and Mark... he also says there it is adultery for someone to divorce and remarry, yet the law permits it... if we are following the Bible, we should also outlaw divorced people from remarrying?

Though there is a law in place to outlaw name - calling, as responsible citizens we need to take a step towards this change.»

In 2012, San Francisco «barely» outlawed public nudity — to much complaining; but the law allows people to participate in parades and some other permit - issued special events in the buff.

Five Indian states have now imposed anti-conversion laws and there have been moves to bring in nationwide legislation aimed at outlawing evangelism to prevent Hindus from converting.

He began with «outlawing» (which it already is but not because of religion), went to «illogical» reasoning (nothing illogical about protecting a woman), then «forcing unjustified belief on others» (many laws would fall in this same unjustificational reasoning) and «through politics» (I think that is how America works — through the majority).

So you're saying the belief of No God / Athiesm should have more say, or should outlaw all laws of which are currently in place that may have religious ties?

If I didn't know any better, I would imagine these birds were outlaws on the run from the law, showing man and beast just who's in charge.

California and Michigan have passed laws to outlaw the cage confinement of hens, and California passed a law requiring all whole eggs used in the state to be cage - free by 2015.

Michigan and California have passed laws to outlaw cage confinement of hens, and Ohio's governor announced his support for a moratorium on the construction of any new cage layer facilities.

Led by former US Solicitor General Ted Olson, New Jersey is seeking to overturn the 1992 PASPA law that outlawed sports betting outside of Nevada, arguing that it falls within «commandeering» and is, therefore, unconstitutional.

I don't know a lot about the American laws and didn't know the AMA wanted to outlaw it — seems like a violation of rights to me.

In today's New York Times, I report on a New Mexico state law, signed yesterday by the governor, which is the first legislation in the country to outlaw «lunch shaming.»

«No free man [homo liber] shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land,» says Chapter 39 of Magna Carta.

The terrorism apology law is extremely broad and dangerous, given that no - one can define the thing it has outlawed apologising for.

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will be proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

«Just as seat belt laws and the smoking ban have helped change behaviour in the past, outlawing smoking in cars with children would send a powerful signal and improve public health.