Sentence examples for contentious law from inspiring English sources

A8 Belgium Eases War Crimes Law Belgium has narrowed the scope of a contentious law that allowed its courts almost unlimited freedom to try foreigners for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Italy's Senate approved a contentious law on reproductive rights on Thursday, banning the use of donor sperm, eggs or surrogate mothers and restricting assisted fertilization to "stable" heterosexual couples.

[On Thursday morning, Mr. Abe went to see a doctor at a hospital here, Japanese media reported.] Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party, has focused his attention on a contentious law that allows Japan's naval forces to refuel American and other ships participating in the war in Afghanistan.

A16 Terror Suspects to Be Tried An official Italian police report frames the judicial case against two men who will be tried in Milan in January under a contentious law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks that made association with an international terrorist network a crime.

The commissioners suggested that a rival Republican-authored House bill placed too many limits on the intelligence director's budget and personnel authority and that the House bill also included many contentious law enforcement provisions that could derail an overall bill to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies.

The contentious law would open up the nationalized oil industry to foreign investment, unlocking over 75% of the country's reserves of 112 billion barrels.

BRAZIL'S gridlocked Congress often ends up passing contentious laws only after the combatants collapse in exhaustion.

Those contentious laws are of particular importance to the Swiss, because banks there generated 6.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2010, according to the Swiss Bankers Associationn.

His resignation means that Viktor Orban, the prime minister, has lost a loyal ally who rubber-stamped all of the government's new, and contentious, laws.

After declaring war on the IMF and repeatedly rejecting calls from the EU to change contentious laws, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, insisted this week in Brussels that he was open to discussion.

One of the most contentious laws was approved in California in 1999; the measure effectively provided an exemption to churches but not to religiously affiliated hospitals, universities or social service organizations.