Sentence examples for extreme laws from inspiring English sources

I asked why such extreme laws were tolerated and the justifications came thick and fast – culture, religion, history, pragmatism.

"There is a massive groundswell of opposition to extreme laws being rammed through Parliament without debate," said Killock.

Extreme laws are always dangerous; if they are to be employed at all, their use needs to be restricted to genuinely extreme circumstances, such as terrorist attack or the threat of war.Were Mr Anwar's circumstances extreme?

North Dakota's Republican governor, Jack Dalrymple, signed extreme laws that went even further, centering on a brazenly unconstitutional ban on nearly all abortions once a fetal heartbeat is "detectable".

According to abortion rights advocates who are critics of Roe, like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the state legislatures would have continued to repeal the most extreme laws like the one in Texas.

"We were treated like criminals," says Mario bitterly, "and the state passed extreme laws against hunting.

This extreme law puts Arizona completely out of step with American values of fairness and equality.

They give little chance of Parliament passing such an extreme law.

Civil liberty groups argue the legislation is the most extreme law enforcement protection bill in the US.

To the extent that there has been a rise in extreme law-following relative to explicit law-breaking, it might look like progress.

First, David Cameron should confess to President Putin that we passed a similar but less extreme law in 1988 (section 28), which banned "the teaching … of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".