Sentence examples for designed to criminalize from inspiring English sources
But a civil liberties lawyer, Ben Waxman, said the ordinance "is designed to criminalize homelessness".
"Unfortunately our local officials have adopted a very repressive set of ordinances designed to criminalize free speech".
"This law was designed to criminalize computer hacking, not people going to a Web site and violating terms of service that can be obscure and frankly arbitrary," said Matthew L. Levine, a former federal prosecutor and defense lawyer in New York.
In recent years, many rightwing lawmakers have introduced legislation that would grant rights to embryos, which, though designed to criminalize abortion, would also make IVF treatment illegal as a result, since the process often creates embryos that would never be transferred or given the opportunity to continue their "life" at it were.
A related notion is that there should be no bills of attainder, legislation designed to criminalize a specific individual.
The Espionage Act is a 1917 statute that was enacted under the Woodrow administration, designed to criminalize dissent against World War I.
At the very least, public spaces should remain public, civil liberties should be upheld even for those without a home, and people who are homeless should have access to basic services instead of being criminalized by restrictive ordinances designed to make them go somewhere else -- anywhere else -- wherever that might be.
A controversial University of Toronto professor has railed against a piece of legislation designed to enshrine human rights protections for transgender Canadians, arguing it will criminalize his right to free speech.
Whenever in the past Congress has considered making it a felony to leak classified information, it has always stepped back from this sort of broad-gauge approach, choosing instead to criminalize only leaks of specific and narrowly defined data -- like the capabilities of technology designed to intercept communications -- where there was identifiable damage to national security.
His proposal was designed to improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address the intersection of mental health and crime, and criminalize straw purchases and gun trafficking.
The study was not designed to determine the reasons that behavior by lesbian, gay and bisexual teens is more likely to be punished or criminalized.
