Sentence examples for isolation law from inspiring English sources

The isolation law is proving the most divisive issue debated by congress since it was elected last July.

"There's no army protecting us, there's no police protecting us, the ministries didn't do anything to protect us, we cannot work in this environment," said Toumi, who chaired the isolation law committee but has resigned citing security fears.

The attacks were launched by supporters of a proposed bill, the isolation law, that would purge Gaddafi-era officials from public office, with demonstrators fearing the law would be watered down by the 200-member congress.

This more Islamist-minded faction of the congress further strengthened its clout thanks to an "isolation law" passed in May under pressure from militiamen surrounding ministries, who insisted that anyone who had a senior post under Qaddafi should be disqualified from public office.

He headed the constitutional hearings in 2012 that scrapped the "political isolation" law, which prohibited members of the old regime from contesting elections.

But the GNC has been stormed on several occasions for reasons varying from calls for the adoption of the political isolation law to the botched medical treatment programme for veterans, which was halted for a while because of corruption.

The entire peninsula was occupied by the state leprosarium until 1969, when Hawaii's isolation laws were abolished.

Eight thousand people with leprosy, now known as Hansen's disease, lived on Kalaupapa from 1866 until the isolation laws were lifted in 1969.

There are a lot of questions that arise, and I believe they all connect to the idea that the possession of power grants isolation from law, and that sadly there is no safe place in the world for impoverished indigenous people, as their segregation from political life and their denied social voice are cunning repressions by institutions.

Yet for Catholics in other areas of the world, in communities that are restricted by social isolation, oppressive laws or the rise of radical Islam, Francis has not yet left a mark.

For more than 100 years, though, it was their isolation, not the law, that protected them.