Sentence examples for adopt laws from inspiring English sources

Forty years later, in 1931, his successor, Pope Pius XI, seconded this clarion call by insisting on the adoption of comprehensive legal codes protecting and ensuring workers's rights: Society must adopt "laws [which] undertake the protection of life, health, strength, family, homes, workshops, wages, and labor hazards" (paragraph 20, Quadragesimo Anno).

Companies also heavily lobbied states to adopt laws making hostile takeovers much harder.

The European Union is pushing India to adopt laws that will undermine generic production.

Mr. Browder has been lobbying other countries to adopt laws identical to the one in the United States.

There would be no more regulator shopping and states would be allowed to adopt laws more stringent than federal requirements.

The organization is asking lawmakers to adopt laws so theaters have to tell patrons exactly when a movie actually begins.

Recently, Uganda, Kenya and Guinea-Bissau adopted laws to end FGM.

Vermont and San Francisco have adopted laws allowing workers to request predictable schedules.

More than a dozen countries have adopted laws legalizing same-sex marriage.

In 1975, only eight states had adopted laws defining "brain death".

This includes adopting laws and policies to respect and protect women's reproductive rights".