Sentence examples for pernicious laws from inspiring English sources
They pointed out that, despite the flurry of steps towards liberalisation taken by the authorities, including the recent by-elections in which Ms Suu Kyi triumphed, there have been no changes to pernicious laws.
Lithuania should be placed under strict pressure from the EU to cast these pernicious laws out, and if it doesn't then its membership of the EU should be suspended or withdrawn.
By scrutinizing the definition of key terms, the so-called statistics used to bolster the notion of what journalists thrill to call a "hate crime epidemic" and the impossibly subjective enforcement of these pernicious laws, Jacobs and Potter make a powerful argument that they should be repealed as soon as possible.
"The most pernicious laws, and therefore those which are most opposed to the will of God, have been and are continually enforced as laws by judicial tribunals" (Austin 1832: Lecture V, p. 158).
None of this is discussed in Thailand, for it would contravene the lèse-majesté (as this leader now does too).This pernicious law blocks rational discourse about urgently needed reforms.
In 1997 Russia passed a pernicious law that denied adherents of many religions full freedom to worship and forced them through a burdensome registration process that put them at the mercy of local authorities, like those in Kostroma.
In several 1983 memos, Mr. Roberts derided passage of a California law that required the order of layoffs to reflect affirmative action considerations and condemned another "staggeringly pernicious law codifying the anti-capitalist notion of 'comparable worth' (as opposed to market value) pay scales".
In an important ruling upholding free speech rights under the First Amendment, the Supreme Court this week overturned a pernicious law passed by Congressional Republicans to handcuff and muzzle the lawyers who represent poor people in civil cases under the federally financed Legal Services program.
The Guttmacher Institute's Heather Boonstra, who conducted an analysis of insurance coverage of abortion, called the Hyde Amendment "a pernicious law that explicitly targets the poorest and most vulnerable women".
Then chairman of the state Democratic Party, he was part of a lawsuit to nullify the measure, which he called "one of the most pernicious campaign laws ever enacted". His side won.
