Sentence examples for could criminalize from inspiring English sources
Heidelberg University is considering implementing a mandatory affidavit that could criminalize cheating on academic work.
Again and again, he argued that the state could criminalize behavior simply because it was inherently immoral.
"Using the law in this way could criminalize many everyday activities and allow for outlandishly severe penalties".
Called on by the Justices to explain why Texas could criminalize gay sex but allow same-sex adoptions, Rosenthal had no response.
It is a procedure Dr. Carhart has never performed and one he says he finds "distasteful," but he believed that the law was so broad that it could criminalize other types of abortions.
As Geoffrey King, Internet Advocacy Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, has put it, the Barrett Brown case "could criminalize the routine journalistic practice of linking to documents publicly available on the internet, which would seem to be protected by the first amendment to the US constitution under current doctrine".
What Opponents Say It Could Mean For Women: Those who oppose the bill say that by changing the definition of personhood in Colorado's criminal code, the amendment could effectively criminalize abortion.
In 2004, in his first (and, he says, probably his last) appearance before the Supreme Court, he argued that Congress could not criminalize the production of home-grown marijuana for personal medical use.
It includes heavy penalties for those who download or produce pornography — which critics say is defined so broadly that it could effectively criminalize many of Indonesia's diverse non-Islamic cultures.
The Supreme Court last considered a gay-rights issue in 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, when the Justices ruled, six to three, that the state could not criminalize sodomy between two consenting males.
In Lawrence v. Texas, the Court ruled, six to three, that states could not criminalize sodomy between consenting adult homosexuals, thus overturning a seventeen-year-old precedent on the subject, Bowers v. Hardwick.
