Sentence examples for been laws from inspiring English sources
noun
The body of rules and standards issued by the legislative body, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
- By law, one is not allowed to own a wallaby in New York City.
"From the first days of independence," she said, "there have been laws that are very advantageous to women.
She firstly notes how relatively young privacy law is in this country – only since 1998 have there been laws in place to protect privacy.
There have been laws in place restricting paid product placement of tobacco since 1998, and the MPAA's rating system has taken instances of smoking into account since 2007.
For nearly as long as there have been humans, there have been laws defining the status of animals, reserving certain species for certain uses and certain people.
Since 1958, there have been laws intended to prevent or inhibit the sort of violent assaults that we saw in Notting Hill, beginning with the draconian sentences handed out to some of the worse offenders.
Mary Jane Gallagher, president and chief executive of the family planning association, said the rule was unnecessary because there had been laws on the books for decades protecting medical providers if they refused to participate in abortions and sterilization services.
There are laws protecting us from pollution.
(Yes, there are laws about this).
So, Bismarck famously observed, are laws.
