Sentence examples for equal statutes from inspiring English sources

During the civil rights movement, many white Northerners — including some who had never before interacted with black people — joined African-Americans to fight for the principle of equal rights, often opposing white Southerners who had lived among blacks all their lives yet saw nothing wrong with the separate but equal statutes.

Thus, noncitizens are protected by fair housing and equal employment statutes, among other antidiscrimination laws.

The issue for the Supreme Court is whether excluding gay and lesbian couples from state-sanctioned marriages in California -- but pretty much nothing else, given that state's aggressive panoply of civil union and equal benefits statutes -- violates either the equal protection or due process clauses of the 14th Amendment to the federal Constitution.

The president coupled his appeal with a request that Congress approve a bill proposed by Senator Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, and Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, that would direct federal agencies to collect data about wage disparities and increase penalties for violating equal-pay statutes.

Peter Simonson, executive director of the A.C.L.U. of New Mexico, said the state's courts had ruled on several challenges to the equal-protection statute, applying to issues other than same-sex marriage.

This Nautilus, propelled by two 50-horsepower electric motors operated from a 100-cell storage battery, achieved a surface speed of six knots (nautical miles per hour; one knot equals 1.15 statute miles per hour or 1.85 kilometres per hour).

Though they differed in detail, most of those statutes required equal accommodations for black passengers and imposed fines and even jail terms on railroad employees who did not enforce them.

The decision should ensure that political issues dear to western and southern states become more prominent in the crucial early stages of campaigning.In another blow to supporters of gay marriage, Washington state's Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex nuptials was constitutional, overruling the decision of two lower courts, which said such a ban violated statutes on equal rights.

In Lawrence, the court struck down state sodomy statutes using equal protection principles of due process.

At the smallest airports, light aircraft are unable to operate in crosswinds greater than 10 knots; at all airports, operation in tailwinds in excess of 10 knots is not recommended by aircraft manufacturers (10 knots, or nautical miles per hour, is equal to about 12 statute miles per hour or 19 km per hour).

African states, by contrast, signed up to the Rome Statute as equal partners.