Sentence examples for imposed a law from inspiring English sources

The generals also imposed a law making it a criminal offence to criticise Ataturk publicly.

He cast himself as a bulwark against religious extremism and imposed a law requiring men to seek a first wife's permission before marrying a second.

The government imposed a law in the two most populous provinces, Sindh and Punjab, that prohibits any gathering of more than four people.

Before leaving power in 1983, the military imposed a law giving itself immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during the period when it ran the country.

The risks of investment in the country are increasing as President Mugabe has imposed a law forcing all foreign- or white-owned companies to transfer 51% of their shares to indigenous Zimbabweans, effectively sabotaging his campaign to attract foreign investment.

Congress should never impose a law that diminishes freedom and civil liberties without thorough public hearings, convincing evidence and full floor debate on the constitutionality of the proposals.

RFRA provides that the federal government can't impose a law of general application on a "person" if it would substantially burden their free exercise of religion, unless there is no less burdensome way to accomplish a compelling governmental objective.

Maybe someone can explain this: Israel imposes a law drawn up by the British in 1939, before the state was created, to block the importing of Arabic-language children's books from Syria and Lebanon.

The main aim of this was to impose a law of diminishing returns, gradually decreasing the impact from additional reports of a given kind, e.g. with positive dechallenge.

In the case of Garcés in Chile in December 2013, the Chilean Supreme Court ordered state institutions (duty holders) to pay compensation to several claimants (rights holders) for breach a national law that imposed a civil law duty of care (Duffield 2013; Trujillo 2013).

The government imposed a dry law until after the elections.