Sentence examples for law backing from inspiring English sources

"It gives parents the hammer," she said, "because when a teen challenges a restriction, parents can say they have that law backing them up".

We need to be franker and tougher in fighting corruption, enforcing the rule of law, backing democratic institutions -- what he dubs The Golden Thread that runs through development.

Maybe – just maybe – the Kingsnorth verdict, with the full weight of the law backing it up, will make that link clearer in our minds.

Parliament voted against changing the law, backing a cross-party backbench motion proposed by Labour's Jack Straw and the Conservatives' David Davis.

It's that simple," said the 59-year-old, adding that he would ask Congress to pass a law backing his idea.

But by seeing the fish's "concern" title and raising it to "threatened," strategies like habitat protection, dam removal, fish ladders, reductions in excess nutrients in rivers, and maybe even reductions in bycatch would all finally be in play, with federal law backing them up.

That 2011 law, backed by Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, stripped government workers of their ability to bargain collectively.

Under federal law, backed by the N.R.A., it is illegal to maintain any gun registry.

Mr. Obama signed a law, backed by the National Rifle Association, that allows loaded, concealed weapons to be carried in our national parks.

Some apparent breakthroughs have gone awry (an ally in Ecuador turned out to have bribed members of parliament to pass the anti-corruption law backed by Transparency International).

A federal law backed by the banking industry and passed last year, the Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act, watered down the rule.