Sentences with phrase «pass draconian laws»

The NT Government has led a concerted and sustained campaign demonising young people and to pass draconian laws inconsistent with recommendations made by successive inquiries, including those of the NT Children's Commissioner.

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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.

Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Leader Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (all Democrats) reached an agreement behind closed doors to repeal much of what is left of the draconian drug laws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug Llaws that govern the state — ones that were passed in the seventies during a heroin epidemic in urban areas and are commonly called the Rockefeller Drug LawsLaws.

«The roaring sound you hear is Cillizza avoiding any mention of the most important news in politics since HCR, which he also avoided: the Draconian immigration law passed in Arizona.

The Unknown Terrorist is set against a background of draconian anti-terror laws that were passed in Australia in 2005 following the bombings in Bali, Indonesia.

Now, although the draconian laws passed in 2037 have cut CO2 emissions in half, the US is in a state of near collapse.

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.