Sentence examples for law sanctioned from inspiring English sources

Canon law sanctioned slavery.

That deplorable 1996 law sanctioned blatant discrimination against the spousal rights of married gays and lesbians.

Canon law sanctioned the punishment, and in France galley slaves could be branded "TF" (travaux forcés, "hard labour") until 1832.

The law sanctioned some of these steps; other acts appear simply to be at the behest of the powerful against the weak.

She sent him a cease-and-desist letter, telling him that he could be charged with extortion under federal and state law, and noting that Louisiana law sanctioned threats to "expose or impute any deformity or disgrace to the individual threatened or to any member of his family or to any other person held dear to him".

Butler criticized those forms of natural law and Hobbesian accounts of motivation that held that I am morally motivated and given an authoritative reason for acting by a law sanctioned with rewards and punishments by a divine or civil legislator.

Rhode Island has become the first state to enact a law sanctioning the use of medical marijuana since the Supreme Court ruled in June that the authorities could prosecute users, even in states with laws that allow its use.

The law sanctions discontinuation of mechanical ventilation should it become a "cyclical" rather than "continuous" therapy, a provision that has implications for the use of the already available paraPAC ventilators.

Protesters also occupied a government printing press in a bid to stop the government formally publishing the new law sanctioning the austerity.

As minister of justice, Deák was mainly responsible for the drafting of the reforming "April Laws" sanctioned by the monarch on April 11 , 1848

When the Mapuches have in the past taken collective action, the anti-terrorist laws sanctioned by Pinochet have been used against them.