Sentence examples for ferocious laws from inspiring English sources

By the early 1990s the crack scare had faded, but a series of increasingly ferocious laws, passed in the second half of the 1980s, set the framework within which Mr Bush's war on drugs is still waged today.This framework is not immutable, although formidable vested interests—including the police and prison officers now back tough drugs laws.

But the Irish media, cowed by the country's ferocious libel laws, investigated half-heartedly.

At home, ferocious "mandatory sentencing" laws are the main reason for the country's huge prison population.

So we are probably in breach of international law, thus the ferocious reaction from Jakarta.

In "The Golden Bough," Sir James Frazer describes "the ferocious penalty" in ancient German law that was exacted from anyone who dared even to remove a strip of bark: "The culprit's navel was to be cut out and nailed to the part of the tree which he had peeled, and he was to be driven round and round the tree till all his guts were wound about its trunk".

The press should, within the law, be feral and ferocious.

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget law of 1985 had ferocious automatic cuts, which — surprise — Congress turned out not to like.

In any case, Evolution, the store, is a reminder that the ferocious change that marks New York is a law of nature.

For more than a decade, Amazon led a ferocious lobbying campaign in Washington against a law to require online merchants to collect state and municipal sales tax from their customers.

Reformers should be "careful what they wish for" says Rod Christie-Miller of Schillings, a particularly ferocious firm of London libel lawyers: "The more laws you make, the more money lawyers make".

But soon, David Cameron will have to announce his plans to give English MPs a vote over English laws - and beneath the surface a ferocious debate is raging.