Sentence examples for may outlaw from inspiring English sources
Legislatures may outlaw sex discrimination, Justice Scalia suggested, but if they decided to enact laws sanctioning such unfair treatment, it would not be unconstitutional.
'There's a future for indoor birds,' Andrew Maunder maintains - and if avian flu rears its ugly head, it could be the only one; the Government may outlaw outdoor flocks.
In the United States, a single union may be chosen by majority vote to represent all the workers; however, under Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, a state may outlaw union shop provisions in labour contracts by passing right-to-work laws, which prohibit requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
The government also plans to extend antiharassment laws to apply to all employees of an organization rather than specific individuals and may outlaw acts that cause economic damage to research-related operations.
She has halted her apartment search because she does not know what town may outlaw pit bulls next.
One Florida federal district court has already (and wrongly) ruled that if states may outlaw abortion at some point during pregnancy and force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, then surely the state can also force a woman to undergo major medical procedures to deliver the child she "affirmatively desires to have".
The government may also outlaw mail threats.
So while the FDA may not outlaw the seven remaining artificial colors tomorrow, Americans increasingly have access to naturally colored products, thus bestowing upon us the power of choice.
On Finnis's account, when consensual sexual conduct is private, government may not outlaw it, but government "can rightly judge that it has a compelling interest in denying that 'gay lifestyles' are a valid and humanly acceptable choice and form of life" (1996: 17).
Congress has just begun to grapple with the issue of therapeutic cloning, and may wind up framing such a fierce ban on human cloning that therapeutic cloning also may be outlawed.
The decision in Yates undermined the 1951 Dennis decision by holding that contemplation of abstract, future violence may not be prohibited by law, but that urging others to act in violent ways may be outlawed.
