Sentence examples for fighting law from inspiring English sources

And, with the passage of the Farm Bill in February, we've now seen the federal animal fighting law upgraded four times in the last 12 years, with the latest provisions making it a federal crime to attend or bring a minor to an animal fighting spectacle.

There is another Pakistan -- the Pakistan of women academics running women studies programs, women demonstrating in front of the judiciary, speaking out on television, fighting law suits in protection of women's rights, harboring and giving refuge to women who are acid burned.

New Jersey got this year's "most improved" award for its passage of a tough anti-dog fighting law.  .

The movement has been particularly effective in Tea Party strongholds like Virginia, Florida and Texas, but the police have been called in to contain protests in states including Maryland and California, where opponents are fighting laws passed in recent years to encourage development around public transportation hubs and dense areas in an effort to save money and preserve rural communities.

As a resident of Sandy Hook and the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors, I find the NRA's attempt to draw on the Nazis' annihilation of my ancestors to further their political and business objectives to be dishonest, offensive and callously calculated to scare Americans into fighting laws that will save lives.

At the ACLU, she has been involved in litigation defending the media's right of access to judicial executions, fighting laws criminalizing First Amendment-protected activity, and protecting privacy of mobile phone data.

This guilty plea and conviction should settle the question of whether these so-called "gamefowl breeding associations" are anything more than criminal syndicates who make their living collecting door fees at illegal cockfighting events and then laundering the money back into political campaigns to block the enactment of stronger animal fighting laws.

(The rest has to do with "corporate freedom").. "Perhaps if Paul Ryan hadn't spent much of his political career fighting laws that promote realistic work-life balance for parents of all socioeconomic levels," Jezebel's Erin Gloria Ryan writes, "Asking for family time would make him look more like a hero and less like a hypocrite".

In 1988, DEA Judge Young ruled that "the evidence... clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people" and that it would be "unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious" for the DEA to continue fighting laws to allow its use.

We were happy to see that the Farm Bill signed by President Obama last week includes a measure to strengthen federal animal fighting laws by making attending an animal fight a federal offense.

A long-time opponent of anti-cruelty laws, King has tried to thwart laws cracking down on dog fighting, laws that help pets and their owners during natural disasters, and more.