Sentence examples for laws were put from inspiring English sources

New England's blue laws were put down by early settlers to enforce proper behavior on Sundays.

"The laws were put in place to protect the forests," Garrity said.

Sidewalk men were sometimes arrested on charges of disorderly conduct; eventually laws were put in place that prohibited scalping within a certain distance of a venue.

"The laws were put in place, for the most part, to protect employees and their ability to form unions," Feldman said.

Back in Hong Kong's colonial days, laws were put in place to make sure that only Europeans were allowed to own property on the Peak.

When the laws were put into mathematical form by Maxwell, the law of induction was generalized to include the production of electric force in space, independent of actual conducting circuits, but was otherwise unchanged.

Tough tax laws are put forth and then amnesties are offered.

The idea of tougher gun laws was put on hold, according to administration officials.

Finally, a velocity-aimed electromagnetic docking control approach based on the self-docking capability and the conservation laws is put forward and verified by numerical simulations.

The anti-trade union laws being put forward by the government shift things in the wrong direction – Jeremy is proposing a solution to a 21st century problem".

That means that financial-regulation laws are "put together by politicians who are, to some extent, anyway, beholden to the banking interests".