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The laws were pushed through Parliament last week, ahead of March elections in which the long-ruling President Robert Mugabe will face his strongest challenge since taking power.

Scotland's equal marriage laws were pushed through after months of resistance from religious leaders in 2014, a year after England and Wales.

The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for individual rights online, criticised moves to rush the bill through parliament before the election, saying "measures to allow disconnection of individuals from the internet, for undefined periods of time" and web blocking laws were pushed through "with no real scrutiny and limited debate".

Looking back, it's possible to feel that the people who campaigned against those laws were pushing on an open door.

How can unions educate them about, say, the problems with anti-union laws being pushed by Republicans?

The new voting laws being pushed in states across the country are not just about requiring ID.

For Mr. Chkhartishvili, the arrest marked the point at which the liberals of the first post-Soviet years — who had tried, however poorly, to instill a rule of law — were pushed aside by "siloviki," the secret service and army chiefs who now rule by raw power (sila).

Groups that oppose new gun laws are pushing hard to block the legislation.

New laws are pushing Japan's very public organised crime groups underground.

A "strategic entities foreign-investment law" was pushed through, tightening approval procedures.

That law was pushed through by the government then led by the Social Democrats and Greens.