Sentence examples for iniquitous laws from inspiring English sources

Such iniquitous laws as those passed by tyrants are not just (I.42); nor is the title of law to be conferred upon "what bandits have agreed among themselves" (II.13).

Loi scelerate, or iniquitous law, means a law worse in its repression than what it seeks to repress.

At the time, the city maintained iniquitous zoning laws "spelling out where blacks and Jews could live", and as a Jewish family, they soon ran into problems.

Calling the law "iniquitous", the cardinal had urged municipal bureaucrats to refuse to officiate at gay wedding ceremonies, even if it means losing their jobs.So not for the first time, a Catholic prelate from a Latin country is weighing in against a socialist government, over a sensitive moral issue, and giving heart to the conservative opposition.

But both had weak public institutions, teeny civil societies, shady and iniquitous economies, and meaningless laws.

His argument against the iniquitous use of police bail stretches beyond arrested journalists to encompass all who are "living in limbo".

Russia was iniquitous to have violated international law and snatched Ukraine and is also wrong to be militarily stirring up an insurgency in eastern Ukraine.

Kafka could indeed have invented the indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP), but it is even more iniquitous than described in your article (Defunct law that keeps thousands in jail is branded absurd by Clarke, 31 May).

It's iniquitous.

All I lacked were some iniquitous volunteers.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is not a uniquely iniquitous event.