Sentence examples for law designed to stop from inspiring English sources

Amid concerns that doctors are more likely to order tests or procedures in which they have a financial interest, Congress passed an antikickback law designed to stop doctors from doing that.

Illinois-based AbbVie wanted to buy Shire and move its headquarters to the UK to cut its tax bill, but fell foul of changes in US law designed to stop practices attacked by President Barack Obama as "corporate desertion".

Judges at Strasbourg's Court of Human Rights said they had "grave concerns" about the UK law designed to stop sham marriages.

Israeli civil rights groups are planning to challenge a new law designed to stop boycotts of products from West Bank settlements.

We already have a law designed to stop this sort of fraud.

The state of North Carolina retaliated by passing a law designed to stop Charlotte from adopting this plan.

Several American states, led by California, have passed laws designed to stop Albertan oil reaching their citizens.

Indonesia has laws designed to stop the burning of forest land, and supposedly imposes draconian penalties for damaging the environment.

In parts of India, Christians claim that their faith has suffered badly from anti-conversion laws designed to stop Hindus, especially those of a low caste, embracing Christianity.

The reason narcotics laws are poorly enforced is because the traffic is so immense that the existing laws or any proposed laws designed to stop it are flatly unenforceable.

While it remains unclear as yet if reading from a banned book is or is not illegal under the Custom's Act —and the courts will debate this issue — it is very clear that reading from the book does open both readers and those who provide a venue for them to persecution and harassment under outdated colonial laws designed to stop religious hate-mongering.