Sentences with phrase «with draconian laws»

Let's look at Texas; they pushed most Planned Parenthood clinics out of business with draconian laws.

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He called parts of it «draconian» and said, «much of it is too vague to give bitcoin companies the certainty that they are indeed complying with the law.»

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.

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.

How is it that the anti-EU press, the Department of Health and Tesco seem to be aligned in a story attacking the formula marketing law as draconian, when this same law is routinely flouted with regard to instore promotion and advertising with no prosecutions being brought?

«I had a conversation with a number of colleagues where people were talking about the pension forfeiture laws, and how they're just draconian.

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.

RBSS doggedly responds to this twisted narrative with images of those suffering under ISIS rule — not just from draconian sharia law but from starvation, poverty, and a lack of basic medical care and other services.

* A draconian law denying government grants and loans to people with even a minor drug offense should be repealed, the New York Times Editorial Board writes: http://nyti.ms/1p4r1De * A coalition of community groups is asking for more money to help cover college costs for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

Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it.»

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.)

Persis Yu, director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, called the GAO report a demonstration of «just how draconian these [garnishments] are» as well as exposing issues with the policies themselves.

Bill 14 is a draconian, poorly conceived attempt by Law Society officials (curently sitting on a time bomb of statutory and common law breaches tantamount to public malfeasance, hidden LSAP decisions — the hidden 2000 Codina decision showing complaints were not authorized; the hidden Baker costs decision awarding $ 150,000 in costs and they are fearful of liability) who lack training and expertise in administrative law principles, to replace those required skills with a whLaw Society officials (curently sitting on a time bomb of statutory and common law breaches tantamount to public malfeasance, hidden LSAP decisions — the hidden 2000 Codina decision showing complaints were not authorized; the hidden Baker costs decision awarding $ 150,000 in costs and they are fearful of liability) who lack training and expertise in administrative law principles, to replace those required skills with a whlaw breaches tantamount to public malfeasance, hidden LSAP decisions — the hidden 2000 Codina decision showing complaints were not authorized; the hidden Baker costs decision awarding $ 150,000 in costs and they are fearful of liability) who lack training and expertise in administrative law principles, to replace those required skills with a whlaw principles, to replace those required skills with a whip!

Federal defense attorneys must be adept at dealing with not only the federal sentencing guidelines; but also the numerous, draconian mandatory minimum sentencing statutes which distort and destroy the common law principal that «the punishment should fit the crime.»

Despite recent efforts to make the draconian UK Family Court system more compatible with the ECHR — in both domains of private and public law — it still remains an aberration long overdue root and branch reform.

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.

Since its founding in the 1950s, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF - WHR) has been working with local organizations to help women maintain reproductive autonomy despite such draconian laws.