Sentence examples for foolish law from inspiring English sources

This is a foolish law.

Also, by law — foolish law, but that's another matter — those cuts are restricted to parts of the budget, so instead of the 1 percent that Mr. Scarborough claims, they amount to over 5 percent as a share of the parts they actually hit (for example, the defense cuts are 8 percent).

"Surely it was frustrating to be the first person arrested under a foolish law," said Mason Tvert, communications director of the Marijuana Policy Project and a key backer of Colorado's Amendment 64 legalizing recreational weed.

Men need to understand that traditional manual jobs are not coming back, and that they can be nurses or hairdressers without losing their masculinity.Policymakers also need to lend a hand, because foolish laws are making the problem worse.

"Our foolish laws mean that while prostitution is not in itself illegal, working in a brothel is," says Max McLean, who has served in West Yorkshire CID for almost three decades and recently retired as detective chief superintendent.

Perhaps Americans' taste for demagogues and moralizers shows that we do not mistrust all authority, but that we have a weakness for people who flatter our favorite prejudice: that we are a good people afflicted by a few foolish laws.

A foolish "revitalisation" law recently gave the government power to prop up bankrupt firms.

And I was joining a clan that did not suffer in-laws gladly, let alone foolish in-laws.

These proposals failed because the laws of supply and demand and huge profits created by prohibition defeat foolish drug laws passed by Congress.

The Lists of obscure and foolish-sounding laws.

A witch named Alisia, who was at the protest on the Danube, called the new tax law "foolish".