Sentence examples for laws that recognize from inspiring English sources

There are international and American laws that recognize people who need protection.

There are also laws that recognize family claims in the event that property is left intestate (i.e., with no will to determine its distribution).

New Mexico is the only state in the country that does not have any laws that recognize or prohibit the recognition of same-sex relationships, though it is  surrounded by states whose constitutions restrict marriage to people of opposite sexes.

States have often been one step ahead of the federal government in pioneering social change, and it is commendable that 16 states and the District of Columbia have already passed laws that recognize the medicinal value of marijuana.

Worried about the spread of laws that recognize same-sex couples, the Vatican today urged Roman Catholic lawmakers and others to fight back, calling support for such legislation "gravely immoral".

During those years, Ms. Bailey helped organize the National Committee of Grandparents for Children's Rights, an organization that lobbies for laws that recognize children's rights to keep in contact with their grandparents after a divorce.

The thing is, in some ways last week's ruling was as much for relationships like ours as for happily-wanting-to-be-married same-sex couples, because by virtue of laws that recognized my relationship and my family, this process of coming apart has been much less painful than it could have been.

Three years ago, Vermont passed a law that recognized gay couples.

He abandoned relativism and turned toward a philosophy of natural law that recognized certain absolute, innate properties of law and justice.

State officials say a 1987 federal law that recognized the Tiguas as a tribe put them under the jurisdiction of state gambling law, under which casinos are illegal.

President George W. Bush signed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act earlier this year, a law that recognized that lightly contaminated brownfields are in a different category than the badly polluted sites covered by the law commonly known as Superfund.