Sentence examples for imposed laws from inspiring English sources

States like Oklahoma have imposed laws barring access to the information, saying that they are protecting the safety of people involved in executions.

In response to an overall increase in shisha use, Egypt imposed laws in June that banned cigarette sales to people under 18 and toughened warning language on packs.

But 15 states have banned payday lending altogether, while others have imposed laws to limit the interest rates and the number of loans that can be made to each customer.

It imposed laws boastfully described by Tony Blair as "the most restrictive on trade unions in the western world"; David Cameron now proposes to make them more restrictive still.

The director at Washington-based advocacy organization the Death Penalty Information Center, Richard Dieter, told The Independent that different states like Ohio and Tennessee have imposed laws to block the information, but legal authorities in other states have withheld the information without any amendable law on the books.

Hungary, which has imposed laws threatening migrants with imprisonment and ordered riot police to fire tear gas and water cannons to drive them back, is extending 11ft metal fence along its Croatian border to prevent refugees from using it as a new entry point.

Morality, for Wilde, is about the sanction of externally imposed law and must therefore be rejected.

One Russian law prohibits insulting state authorities; while another recently imposed law bans alleged homosexual propaganda aimed at minors.

He first imposed law and order, restoring the state to its role as night-watchman rather than rogue.

European societies, over the centuries, solved this problem as their kings imposed law and order on a medieval patchwork of fiefs ravaged by feuding knights.

Professor Ben Polak: We could impose laws.