Sentence examples for laws attempt from inspiring English sources

Civil rights laws attempt to guarantee full and equal citizenship for people who have traditionally been discriminated against on the basis of some group characteristic.

Courteous smokers should divorce themselves from the proximity of others.However, most smokers are not so courteous or thoughtful concerning the rights of others and American anti-smoking laws attempt to remedy this.

And while federal humane slaughter laws attempt to protect animals from painful deaths, they have gaping loopholes, and the majority of animals killed for food, birds, are exempt.

Most states have passed laws attempting to micro-manage the way HMOs are run.

Violations included the flouting of plantation licensing laws, attempts by a palm oil firm to bribe police to drop an investigation into its activities and regional governments transferring community resources to private firms.

Further laws attempted to relieve the burden of debt from plebeians by banning interest on loans.

Solon's laws attempted to prevent the combination of estates by the marriage of heiresses.

Ghavami was one of a group of women who, despite the laws, attempted to watch Iran play Italy in a match on the 20th of June.

In both cases, women helped raise concerns about the effects on children and families: first the harms done by drinking, then the harms done by the laws attempting to stop it.

In 2001, Cory Thompson – also known as the "strip club crusader" for flouting the province's stripping laws – attempted to challenge the ban of stripping in bars at the Supreme Court, arguing it was a violation of freedom of expression.

He also signed the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.