Sentences with phrase «sweeping law»

Congressional leaders back in the politically turbulent 1970s managed to pass sweeping laws to ensure clean air and water, protect endangered species and keep toxic substances out of everyday household products.

Republicans and Democrats banded together to create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Congress passed the most sweeping laws since Roosevelt's New Deal.

While physicists are seekers of the truth who uncover sweeping laws of nature, the rest are mere collectors, who pigeonhole things into categories.

«The regime authorizes sweeping law office searches which inherently risk breaching solicitor - client privilege,» wrote Justice Thomas Cromwell for the court.

That Ortiz's bill stands little chance of passing seems like a given after the passage of the sweeping law last month and the expending of political capital to do so.

The sweeping law overturns gay and transgender protections at the local level and requires students to use restrooms that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.

The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one - size - fits - all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.

Instead of a sweeping law to help the afflicted few, how about a simple decision to let those who have «gender identity» issues use separate unisex bathrooms and private changing areas if they are not comfortable using the facilities that comport with the body parts they were born with?

Juneau decided to freeze the ever - increasing NCLB performance targets as a stopgap to a stalled congressional overhaul of the sweeping law, which has been up for reauthorization since 2007.

Just one of this sweeping law's many restrictions spurred women to protest en masse in what was dubbed «Periods for Pence.»

In February, Governor John Kasich signed a sweeping law that bars Planned Parenthood health centers from providing care and educational services through several public programs — despite overwhelming opposition from public health experts and Ohioans in Columbus and online.