Sentence examples for face legislation from inspiring English sources

High street retailers have been given a year to cut down on the number of plastic bags they hand out to customers or face legislation that will force them to impose a charge on every bag they give away.

An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so.

The Five Eyes group of governments — made up of the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand — further doubled down on its anti-encryption aggression in recent remarks, demanding that tech companies provide access or face legislation that would compel their assistance.

These are "people saying 'I'm for solar, wind, geothermal, but I'm also for tar sands, coastal drilling.' " Over all, the hurdles facing legislation restricting gases released by burning coal and oil, which still underpin the economy, remain so daunting that many experts who favor capping emissions appear to be focusing on actions a president could take with a pen stroke.

In America they face proposed legislation.

On its face, the legislation makes perfect sense.

The vice president's new placebo for worried moms -- his ultimatum that Hollywood "shape up in six months" or face punitive legislation -- is just as feeble.

It's a crisis that repeats itself across rape reportage and conviction rates; sexual harassment; under-representation of women at the highest levels of the arts and sciences; the persistence of the paygap in the face of legislation; and the fact no one is putting any money into developing a lipgloss that doesn't stick to your hair.

Knight said that, far from being too big to fail, banks were facing new legislation allowing them to be wound down in an orderly manner if they get into trouble.

Scalia wrote that the AUMF could not be read to suspend habeas corpus and that the Court, faced with legislation by Congress which did not grant the President power to detain Hamdi, was trying to "Make Everything Come Out Right".

Likewise, without the First Amendment, we'd be hard-pressed to mount a winning legal argument on behalf of faculty members at the University of Wisconsin facing proposed legislation banning them from speaking to a nonprofit journalism organization.