Sentence examples for onerous law from inspiring English sources
But the most onerous law of all has been the working-time directive, passed as early as 1993 as a health and safety measure to create a level playing field in the single European market.
After Bettye and Debra spent much of 2012 fighting against to get her needed documents, a judge blocked Wisconsin's onerous law.
Texas state senator Wendy Davis stood up and spoke for 11 straight hours in a courageous filibuster to block the Senate from voting on an onerous law that would have closed almost 90% of the clinics in the state.
Coburn has the dubious distinction at this moment of being from the first state in the Union where Republicans are fighting -- first in the legislature, now in the courts -- to pass a uniquely onerous law.
The displays also give a condensed survey of slavery in New York, its onerous laws, its rebellions and its perversities.
They worry that more onerous laws, like those in Pennsylvania, could make it more difficult for Democratic-leaning voting groups like African-Americans and young voters to participate in this November's election.
Oil companies and regional experts wonder whether significant new oil and gas reservoirs will be opened to foreign investment, whether onerous laws and tax codes will be reworked and whether persistent corruption can be reduced.
Ilaria Pavan, a scholar at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, said a series of incrementally more onerous laws in 1939 and 1940 revoked peddlers' permits and shopkeepers' licenses, and required Jewish owners of businesses — as well as stock or bond holders — to sell those assets to "Aryans".
Congress in its great wisdom has seen fit to pass a mass of sometimes conflicting, frequently onerous laws with the stated goal of protecting working stiffs.
And several onerous laws, including Section 18 of the Peaceful Assembly Law, can still be used at the discretion of authorities to prevent demonstrations.
We have plenty of room, and why not grow more godly in number than the pagans so that we'll never succumb to their immoral ways or religiously onerous laws?
