Sentence examples for laws that define from inspiring English sources

Slavery is outlawed everywhere, but countries need specific laws that define and aim at offenders.

Different agencies have different approaches to setting regulatory targets depending on the laws that define their statutory authority.

Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

In others, the Defense Department may need to work with Congress to change existing laws that define how repayments are required and reviewed, he said.

State laws that define nurse practitioners' "scope of practice" vary, but in general they perform many of the tasks that primary care doctors do: they diagnose and treat illness, order tests, prescribe drugs and make referrals to specialists.

Stories about the stalking of celebrities such as Madonna and David Letterman and of ordinary women like Mary are television mainstays, and the federal government and every state have passed laws that define the act of stalking as a crime.

A Supreme Court decision and federal legislation overrode most state laws that defined and prohibited usury.

And in the 1980s, the military dictator Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq passed punitive laws that defined the practice of the Ahmadi faith as a "blasphemous" criminal offense.

The quality of this legislation was mixed, though the laws that defined the structure of the industry were worse than those that regulated the conduct of the industry's participants.

For two terms, Senator Kerrey emphasized the direct connection between citizens and their laws, and made a concerted effort to allow Nebraskans to participate in writing laws that defined the quality and inclusiveness of their health care system, their schools and the safety of their communities.

For years, no one contemplated the possibility that the 14th Amendment could be used to strike down laws barring gay or lesbian marriages or laws that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman.