Sentences with phrase «passed laws against»

So today states can easily get addresses of citizens for jury duty from any number of other databases, and some states have even passed laws against using voter rolls for this purpose.

And many communities have passed laws against long - term chaining of dogs.

If society allows politicians to pass laws against free inquiry, we are in a very bad situation indeed, they say.

People who want to harm others to benefit themselves we call sociopaths, and as a society pass laws against such action.

Would Jesus support the government passing laws against his Church?

It should not seem necessary to pass laws against so base and resolutely mindless a practice, but it is necessary.

Notice that our Congress doesn't pass laws against Churches and neither do local state governments?!

Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it».

You think you can prove you're not gay by bashing gays and passing laws against them (against yourself, sort of like Rep Foley passing laws against using the internet for underage teen proposals, and then he violates it.).

They pass laws against condiments and criminalize misguided kids who try to smoke it.

They might pass a law against it!!!

Was there then, or is there now, a town in Tennessee or any other state in which the city council has passed a law against «dancing in public»?

The percentage of drivers using handheld phones dropped by more than half after New York passed a law against it.

Passing a law against slavery is enough to bring a nation up to Tier 2 status.

Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?

Summerville takes its flora seriously; in 1847 it became the first city in the U.S. to pass a law against cutting trees over a certain size.

Not exact matches

Business leaders on Thursday spoke out against a controversial law passed in Indiana Thursday that could give businesses the green light to deny service to same - sex couples.

After extensive criticism, Gov. Mike Pence says he now wants to pass legislation clarifying that a recent law does not permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.

In the four weeks since Florida passed a «red flag» law authorizing police to seize weapons from people who could pose a threat to themselves or others, law enforcement officials in Broward County have taken action against 13 people.

We, along with our numerous allies, had no probelm intervening once sentences were passed regarding the fate of certain Nazi party members, who clearly were engaged in crimes against humanity - even though the laws didn't even exist during the time of Nurnberg.

If you don't believe me, then you have never tried to live or work in a Mormon - dominated area — they have no compunction whatsoever against lying or by - passing laws to get ahead at the expense of what they refer to as «gentiles» and shamelessly promote their own members (they literally keep a book of apostates and people like me who are unhireable, etc. once listed there).

«With all these laws being passed against plastic grocery bags I predict we will see an increased use of paper bags!

Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and State»... That wall must be kept high and impregnable.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

I would like everyone consider something that is growing in this country that has already occurred in Canada a Law that is passed by making it a criminal offense to use the bible against any sexual orientation.

When the state legislature wanted to pass a law felonizing anyone even offering food to an illegal, the Church stood toe - toe against the state and refused to obey this law.

Non Christians and non believers have to speak out, otherwise Christians sneakily pass laws discriminating against anyone who doesn't agree with them.

They continued talking about how to put the squeeze on the Legislature to pass laws to descriminate against Jewish people.

Why advocate for laws to be passed against gay behavior, but not against adultery, one of the Commandments?

They trash us at every turn, even going so far as to use hate speech and blatant lies to scare people into bashing or even murdering us, passing laws that make our existence illegal, etc., yet when we speak up against this treatment and push back, those same Christians accuse us of intolerance and bullying.

At least since 1956 when South African women hit the headlines with their protest against pass laws, they have never rested.

We have men such as Daniel as examples, men of whom it has been written that, because the officials of his time could find no fault with him, laws were purposely passed that went against his principles, and as a result, he was thrown into the lion's den.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

As we pass laws either for or against gay marriage, we forget that the churches came to America to avoid this kind of intrusion.

Like passing idiot laws against Sharia law in Oklahoma.

Unless the Indian Independence laws are passed against the caste system and the Indian constitution provides for equal opportunities to all people in India, that the depressed class movements can be further solidified and strengthened.

She was an instrumental figure in helping to pass the Fitness and Equity Students Athletic Bill, the first law in Maryland to end discrimination against athletes with a disability.

It's not against the law to pass the ball forwards.

Russia felt betrayed, double standards were applied where the West would get a pass for not sticking to the letter of international law to defend its interests far outside its borders, while the West would throw the book at Russia even when dealing with outright military aggression (note that Georgia launched a large scale military attack against Russian forces in South Ossetia).

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

Persons regularly think that laws the Federal or State governments have passed are against the Constitution.

A British organisation is joining Wikipedia, Reddit and other US websites in blacking out its service in protest against an anti-piracy law passing through the US Congress.

Under a newly passed ethics reform law — which Ambrosino, King Sweeney and Blakeman voted against — Ambrosino would be barred from working for the town or running for re-election if he is convicted of the felony charges.

He was an original author of the Tax Cap and helped get that passed and was the driving force behind passage of the landmark Buster's Law making animal cruelty against pets a felony because animal abuse is a bridge crime and those who harm pets often go on to hurt people.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

The former governor recently took a pass on running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to start a national effort to repeal the new health care reform law — a move widely interpreted to mean that he is eyeing another White House run.

During the internal investigation into the unfair dismissal claim against News Group Newspapers Limited by Clive Goodman, News International hired law firm Harbottle & Lewis (H&L) and passed on hundreds of internal emails to them.

President Buhari commended President Nana Akufo - Addo of Ghana on his achievements in the first year in office, lauding his committed fight against corruption and the passing of the Special Prosecutors Bill into law.

Memo to our friend Buster: if prostitution is such a victimless crime, how come Eliot Spitzer wanted to pass tougher laws against those prostitutes and the John Doe's who purchased their time like Spitzer himself?