Sentence examples for courts enacted from inspiring English sources

Government and the courts enacted statutes and rulings ranging from Brown v. Board of Education to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that outlawed public discrimination, while purportedly providing equal opportunities.

This autonomy was greatly diminished when the imperial court enacted reforms following the threats to central control like the Rebellion of the Seven States.

After several insurrections by Han kings the largest being the Rebellion of the Seven States in 154 BC the imperial court enacted a series of reforms beginning in 145 BC limiting the size and power of these kingdoms and dividing their former territories into new centrally controlled commanderies.

The military courts delivered 44 death penalties but carried out only eight executions, while 16 of the 129 death penalties pronounced by the civilian courts were enacted.

Although two-thirds of Americans now say they believe that same-sex marriage will be legal within the next hundred years, they don't appear ready for courts to enact this social revolution by judicial fiat.

He pushed to convert secular laws into religious ones, installing Sharia courts and enacting anti-blasphemy statutes.

Time has demonstrated that government and courts can enact and uphold laws, but they don't change hearts, minds and souls or address the root cause of racism.

The trust exception has been heavily undermined by the decision in Re Schebsman [1944] Ch 83, which requires a court to find evidence of an intent to create a trust of the promise rather than simply using the requirement as an intention as a fiction to allow the courts to enact the trust exception.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a question that has vexed the lower federal courts since Congress enacted a law to narrow the gap between sentences meted out for offenses involving two kinds of cocaine.

But at the same time a new raft of provisions devised to enhance Mr. Musharraf's presidential powers, particularly over the courts, will be enacted without Parliament's assent.

Sadly, President Obama's Department of Homeland Security rejected a petition in federal court to enact legally enforceable standards for the treatment of immigrant detainees.