Sentence examples for They criminalized from inspiring English sources

"Rhode Island had more minors arrested for prostitution every year before 2009 when they criminalized us," Bella says.

Many of them are former cops and politicians who enforced prohibition and now stand to get rich while the people they criminalized struggle to find employment.

He says that he also remembers what the media said of 15-M: "They criminalized the camp, saying that the people there were nothing more than four anti-system hippies, and no, it was a movement of the entire population".

When someone points out that a policy is criminal, are they criminalizing policy?

Oppressive regimes believe that, if they criminalize certain words and opinions, then the reality behind them ceases to exist.

The statutes granting personhood rights to fetuses are never more pernicious than when they criminalize acts of God.

More insidiously, they criminalize selective abortion, which means that a woman cannot choose to terminate a pregnancy because she knows the fetus has a genetic abnormality, or to select for other characteristics, such as gender.

Yet New Jersey remains one of only two states in America where the laws build a formidable double barrier: they criminalize the purchase or possession of syringes without a doctor's prescription, and they also prohibit needle exchange programs.

Taking into account the lack of international environmental enforcement mechanisms and the existing mild sanctions prescribed by environmental laws of the EU Member State(with comparison to the disastrous effects of the behavior they criminalize), evaluation of the introduction of minimum penal standards by the European Community could only be positive from a policy point of view.

Instead of condemning abuse, they criminalize exposure.

They criminalize us for no reason".