Sentence examples for law debated from inspiring English sources

Its primary purpose was to limit the use of torture, defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person…" As terrorism came to the center stage in the last 20 years, this is the law debated in Guantanamo and elsewhere as interrogations are carried out to elicit information and prevent additional terrorist acts.

The proposed law, debated by a parliamentary commission on Thursday, would allow ministers to order access restricted to any website deemed to threaten lives, public order or people's rights and freedoms by committing a crime.

When Republican Senator Trent Lott and Democrat Senator Tom Daschle, who have been on the opposite sides of the isle on almost every policy and law debated in the Senate, come together to write a book because they both agree we are at a crisis point, it is time to listen.

(AP) SPAIN: NEW IMMIGRATION LAW DEBATED Parliamentary deputies began debate on new immigration legislation as the country becomes an ever more popular entry point into Europe for illegal aliens from the Middle East, Africa and South America.

For example, September and October 2014 saw major new anti-terrorism laws debated in the federal parliament and sensational reporting of large-scale raids in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

The state's resistance to Trump has played out not only in court, but in laws debated or passed in Sacramento as counterweights to Trump policies.

GOP lawmaker tried to silence a black senator in a gun law debate.

But you have to try, and that is why the labour law debate is so important".

Last week I went to a sharia law debate in the House of Commons.

Oliver and his family have founded a nonprofit, Change the Ref, to protest against the influence of gun lobby money in the gun law debate.

"Is it worth passing something that you're not going to enforce?" said Andy Clarke, the president of the League of American Bicyclists, one of the nation's oldest biking advocacy groups, which has maintained neutrality on the helmet law debate.