Sentence examples for laws enforcing from inspiring English sources

There were plenty of laws enforcing the second-tier status of women in 1963.

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, governments are repealing traditional laws enforcing husbands' supremacy.

He also helped write the state constitution to disfranchise Negroes and circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment with a patchwork of Jim Crow laws (i.e., laws enforcing racial segregation).

These laws gained legitimacy when the Supreme Court ruled in 1896 that laws enforcing segregation were constitutional, provided the facilities available for blacks and whites were equal.

Elsewhere, the state laws enforcing the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, passed in 1985 to curb drug trafficking, are complex and harsh.

But there seems at last to be agreement that laws enforcing colour-blindness - for instance, by banning statistics revealing ethnicity - are unhelpful.

Trump just wants the laws enforced. . . .

But the larger problem is getting the laws enforced and people to cooperate.

Immigration lawyers have become the worst enemy of Americans who want immigration laws enforced.

For this, the government would have to pass new corruption laws, enforce existing laws and create an investment-friendly climate.

It amounts to a predatory system of obligation, set down in no laws, enforced by implied threat.