Sentence examples for favored laws from inspiring English sources

Those who favored laws favorable to debtors were dubbed the "Relief Party" and those who favored laws protecting creditors were called the Anti-Relief Partyy". Anti-Relief Party

He favored laws and policies that encouraged personal freedom, a sense of citizenship and a broadening of social, economic and political opportunities.

But he antagonized union members when it was reported that he favored laws that would curtail the rights of labor organizers.

In 2005, Iraq's new constitution mandated that a quarter of the members of parliament be women, but Saddam's fall brought to power conservative religious clerics and parliamentarians who favored laws that would give clerics more control over personal matters.

"A lot of people would say, 'Let's see what Mitt thinks.' " Hewing the Line As a Senate candidate, Mr. Romney angered higher-ups in Salt Lake with his independent stance on abortion; he said that he was personally opposed, but favored laws allowing women to choose.

Furthermore, complying with the DRR does not prevent religious citizens from advocating their favored laws in bigoted, inflammatory, or obnoxious manners; it has nothing to say about political decorum.

Now large majorities of Americans favor laws under which same-sex couples have all or most of the same rights as couples of opposite sexes, and five states, including California, have enacted them.

Rousseau believes that this condition will lead citizens, though guided by a consideration of what is in their own private interest, to favor laws that both secure the common interest impartially and that are not burdensome and intrusive.

While police unions strongly favor laws and policies prohibiting citizens from recording on-duty cops, the sentiment isn't universal among law enforcement.

Even die-hard libertarians should favor laws that limit gun ownership in ways that protect the right to live, the most basic right of all, for one and all.

Conservative-leaning jurors who favor law enforcement are generally what prosecutors seek, while the defense often looks for those who skew liberal.