Sentence examples for passed in the name of from inspiring English sources

ALTHOUGH this amendment was passed in the name of deficit reduction, the requested money for the site is a puny $3 million a year.

Many medical experts say the rule, which was passed in the name of safety, is medically unnecessary and that the requirement cannot be met by clinics in smaller communities.

This type of sweeping authorization is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes, like Saudi Arabia and Russia, who regularly distort laws supposedly passed in the name of fighting terrorism to harass and detain journalists, human rights workers and dissidents.

While the increase was passed in the name of Hurricane Katrina relief, it can be used for any charitable purpose.

All of these restrictive laws passed in the name of fill-in-the-freedom are not about protecting the freedoms of us all -- and will not stand.

Laws will be passed in the name of "protecting workers" to prohibit unions from making political contributions without the specific consent of the members (corporations will have no such equivalent protection for its shareholders).

As far as phone tapping goes, there is no issue with it if it is done to tackle corruption but unnecessary gossip cannot be passed around in the name of fighting corruption".

Healthier masculinity is a noble pursuit, no doubt, but why should it come at the expense of attraction between men? Non-straight men aren't magically exempt from toxic masculinity, and our experiences shouldn't be passed over in the name of educating straight dudes.

He gets a ticket and a boarding pass in the name of Uno Frei.

Visitors get a boarding pass in the name of an actual passenger, whose fate they learn at the end of the visit, in a memorial room where they can plunge their hands into 28-degree water.

Petit had a false pass in the name of 'Philip Asher' and a crutch that led everyone to facilitate his progress, rather like the assassin in The Day of the Jackal.