Sentence examples for expensive laws from inspiring English sources

C1 Corporate Scandals Persist Despite an array of new and expensive laws and regulations that were adopted to tighten corporate oversight after the wave of scandals earlier in the decade, serious accounting problems continue to trouble publicly owned companies.

For millions of women in both rich and poor countries, the search for justice is fraught with difficulty and is often expensive; laws and legal systems frequently discriminate against them.

They reiterated the importance of programs aimed at preventing tobacco use among teens, including taxes to make the products more expensive, laws requiring schools and other public places to be 100% smoke-free, quit lines and other programs to help people kick the habit, and media campaigns that publicize the health dangers of smoking.

(C) To promote an expensive law firm.

An expensive law-and-order system defends its property.

It is unclear how Mr. Bo will pay for his three-year education at Columbia, which has one of the most expensive law schools in the United States.

Creating less expensive law schools with less-qualified staff may give graduates a degree, but that may not better qualify them for jobs.

And if the technology is too expensive, law-abiding low-income people, who are the most frequent crime victims, will be discouraged from acquiring guns for self-protection.

But machines can now do "routine" white-collar jobs, too — things like the work that used to be performed by travel agents and much of the legal "discovery" that was done by relatively well-paid associates with expensive law degrees.

And it's not just senior partners who are reaping the rewards of a recession-driven "fear factor" resulting in people paying the biggest, and most expensive, law firms to help fight courtroom battles where billions can be at stake.

This has been used on occasion in the past to expose wrongdoing, or allegations of it, where repeating such statements outside Westminster could have resulted in an expensive law suits.