Sentence examples for law and native from inspiring English sources

Prior to Islāmic influence Adat Temenggong consisted of a mixture of Hindu law and native custom.

But Mr Albiol claims ghettos are flourishing, groups of immigrants flout the law and native homeowners are fleeing.

This means, the tribe says, that the project violates federal law and native treaties with the US government.

And this practice of democracy in Extension since 1914 has come about because democratic processes from the outset were in the minds and hearts of those State and Federal officers administering the law and native to them.

Their prose was largely experimental and influenced in varying degrees by the language and style of the originals, but at its best it was a not unworthy development of the prose of the law tracts and native tales.

Thus in certain early, cases English law was modified by Chinese, Malay and Hindu customary law, and some native usages or customs acquired the force of law.

The federal version of the legislation proposed that the US government recognise a "Native Hawaiian governing entity" that was to be certified by the US Department of the Interior in conformity with US federal law and practice regarding Native American tribal nations.

Seven months after the passage of NAGPRA, Edward Halealoha Ayau, an indigenous-rights advocate from Hawaii, visited Ian Tattersall, then the A.M.N.H.'s curator of anthropology, to ask that he comply with federal law and return the Native Hawaiian remains.

The deal gave them greater control over their energy resources, treated Greenlanders as a separate people under international law, and granted the native Inuit language Kalaallisut (Western Greenlandic) official status in place of Danish.

Amy Casselman, a former case worker for the Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada, has authored a forthcoming book on the subject: Injustice in Indian Country: Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence Against Native Women.

The "How To Get Away With Murder" actress gave a powerful Saturday speech in which she began with a history lesson in Jim Crow laws and the black, Latinx and Native Americans they oppressed.