Sentence examples for law confining from inspiring English sources

That ruling overturned, on equal protection grounds, a 1998 state law confining civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman.

Just before his death, the Athenians allowed a change in the citizenship law of 451 BC that made his half-Athenian son with Aspasia, Pericles the Younger, a citizen and legitimate heir, a decision all the more striking in considering that Pericles himself had proposed the law confining citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides.

Just before his death, the Athenians allowed a change in the law of 451 BC that made his half-Athenian son with Aspasia, Pericles the Younger, a citizen and legitimate heir, a decision all the more striking in consideration that Pericles himself had proposed the law confining citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides.

The law confined registrars to their offices but ministers could wed people anywhere.

But when the Grand Canyon National Park was created the law confined them to the canyon floor, a tract of 188,000 acres out of their original 2m.

Some continue talking about gods, about his labyrinthine will, about a supposed natural law confined and adjusted to the interests and delusions of those who for centuries and centuries have wanted human beings to be as enslaved and repressed as they are.

However, Jennings, Sullivan, and Hacker (2012) used the same data source and showed that the correlation coefficients for the fertility of women born between 1840 and 1899 and the fertility of their mothers and mothers-in-law (confined to those who were still married at age 45 in nonpolygamous unions) were 0.085 and 0.055, respectively.

Although diagnostic imaging is required for IDD diagnosis, Korean medical law confines use of such appliances and command of medical technicians to MDs, restricting practice rights of non-integrative KM facilities.

Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that the state had violated federal disability law by confining more than 4,000 mentally ill people in privately run adult homes that he described as "even more restrictive or 'institutional' than psychiatric hospitals".

In this the President called on all citizens to co-operate with the Government in its efforts to restore a greater respect for law by confining purchases of alcoholic beverages to licensed dealers or agencies.

On the other hand, it is undeniable that, when the SWIFT society was faced with a contract involving both European law and US law, it confined itself to negotiating data protection mechanisms with the US Treasury Department without obtaining further safeguards.