Sentence examples for law under pressure from inspiring English sources

But Vicente Fox, the outgoing president, vetoed the law under pressure from the United States.

The Ahmadis were declared a non-Muslim minority in 1974 when Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto agreed to the law under pressure from the Sunni majority.

War places law under pressure, and so it is timely to consider the pressure exerted on law by our previous wars, a pressure that was greatest during the Civil War.

The Supreme court has never overturned such laws, although some states subsequently revoked many of the laws under pressure from commercial interests.

The blasphemy law is a bad law enacted under pressure from extremists who threaten violence if the government does anything to lessen its impact or to ameliorate the lot of those who have fallen victim to it.

Mr. Obama is following in the footsteps of President George W. Bush, who likewise, in the face of a stalled effort to revamp federal immigration law, came under pressure to increase security.

Meanwhile, India's outdated narcotics law (passed under pressure from the US) and lack of training in palliative care mean that while an illegal drug trade flourishes, medical patients are unable to get the painkillers they need.

President Bashar al-Assad's father-in-law is under pressure to step down as co-chairman of the British Syrian Society after the resignation of all its British board members over the brutal repression of protests against the Damascus regime.

With the new health care law, everyone is under pressure to find ways to save money.

In fact, last summer when Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley took the place of Cardinal Law, who resigned under pressure, he quickly decided he would not live in the residence and moved into a small rectory behind the city's cathedral, a good distance from Brighton.

The ruling comes as the latest move in a larger battle over the fate of medical marijuana dispensaries in California, where shops operating in full compliance with state law have come under pressure from the federal government.