Sentence examples for laws hostile from inspiring English sources

This significant increase coincides with what the Guttmacher Institute describes as a "seismic shift" in the number of states with laws hostile to abortion rights.

Arizona, unfortunately, has become known as the state that set off a national wave of laws hostile to immigrants and Latinos.

Whether classified as recruitment or abduction, taking children into the movement is a violation of a cease-fire agreement signed last February, which bars, in accordance with international law, hostile acts against civilians.

Instead, viewers are left to believe that Muslim Americans support shariah as Gaffney and O'Reilly have portrayed it for years: a "brutally repressive" law hostile to non-Muslims.

Companies also heavily lobbied states to adopt laws making hostile takeovers much harder.

This mistreatment of a vulnerable population, which advocates for immigrants trace to the roundups of Muslims after 9/11 and the subsequent clamor for tougher immigration laws, is hostile to American values and disproportionate to the threat that these immigrants pose.

She also confirmed that due to the laws and hostile culture towards gay people in Morocco, many in Nass's family are still unaware of the reasons for his incarceration.

Family rejection, discrimination in our communities, discriminatory enforcement of laws, and hostile school environments all play a part.

The tectonic movement in state politics across the country after the Nov. 2 election has left the health care law in hostile hands in many places, just as responsibility for carrying out the law begins to fall most heavily on the states.

The Supreme Court agreed to consider the validity of an Indiana law restricting hostile takeovers of Indiana corporations and several other important business cases today, the beginning of its 1986-87 term.

But in the past, the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has condemned the proposed law as "hostile to the Brazilian family," saying that "it is no different from abortion, which though legal in some coutries continues to be immoral".