Sentence examples for law silly from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Gillespie said he found the application of the law silly, Mr. Hannan thought it was worse than that.

This officer wrote on one ticket he considered the new legalization law "silly".

Atheist Ireland, which has called the defamation law "silly, silencing, and dangerous," responded to news of the investigation by publishing 25 other blasphemous quotes that they released after the Irish law first went into effect.

The main consequence of the mandatory life sentence, then, is to make the law look silly, which is something a home secretary should in general try to avoid.

The U.S. shamed itself on George W. Bush's and Dick Cheney's watch, and David Addington and others like him were willing to manipulate the law like Silly Putty to give them the legal cover they desired.

Spying on entire groups and organisations, and targeting the innocent, undermines not only our rights but the law – frightfully silly of me to drag this into an argument about policing, I know.

The latter filed his own odd little note, seven sentences long, explaining that he thinks the Texas law is "silly," that if he were a member of the Texas Legislature he "would vote to repeal it," and that "punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult" is deplorable.

While it's unlikely that Stanford or Harvard will bow to legal threats, or that Minnesota could enforce the law, the silly incident underscores a widespread problem between government regulators and startups: 20th century consumer and worker rights laws are hindering innovation.

Joseph Antenson, a retired school principal who lives on the Upper East Side, called the laws "absolutely silly".

"As long as we have these silly laws on the books, law enforcement resources will be wasted on enforcing them.

A ban would be a "silly law," she added.