Sentence examples for first criminalized from inspiring English sources

In the early 1900s, attempted crimes were first criminalized.

Gay rights activists say it was actually colonial western powers who first criminalized homosexuality in many parts of the continent.

Marijuana was first criminalized in Canada in 1923 following the publication of magistrate and activist Emily Murphy's (1922) book The Black Candle, which described marijuana as the 'new [drug] menace.' Since then, marijuana has remained an illegal substance.

Drug users are first criminalized for using outlawed substances.

He's ruined people's lives, he should pay for it!" Except that first, the idea that HIV is a life-ruiner is, again, stigmatizing, and second, criminalizing HIV doesn't help anything -- in fact, it actively does harm.

"We have for the first time criminalized money laundering".

Former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, who in 2000 "persuaded" the Court to stop a recount of votes in Florida and put George W. Bush in the White House, said such laws "smothered" the First Amendment and "criminalized" free speech.

It criminalized any second trimester abortion that begins with a live fetus and where "the fetal head or the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother".

Last year, the Constitutional Court ruled that the government's first attempt to criminalize homelessness violated the human dignity of the homeless.

SOMETIME soon, most likely, President Bush will sign into law a ban on a procedure its critics call partial-birth abortion, becoming the first president to criminalize an abortion technique.

While it has long been beyond debate that the government can make it a crime to possess or to distribute child pornography, a case the Supreme Court accepted today poses a new constitutional question for the computer age: whether the First Amendment permits criminalizing child pornography that depicts not actual children but computer-generated images that look like actual children.