Sentence examples for petty laws from inspiring English sources

Paperwork and petty laws.

He was detained with 60-odd fellow hired guns and, eventually, jailed for breaking various petty laws.

To the Editor: Jury nullification might sound appealing when it's used in a defendant's favor to set aside petty laws.

A favorite saying in Denmark was vi har det godt — loosely translated as "life is good for us" — and so it was, despite all the complaints about high taxes and nosy bureaucrats and too many incomprehensible petty laws.

"The woman would clearly have felt utterly humiliated by what happened-French culture should be more tolerant, it is not the job of theaters to enforce petty laws".

As Sad Face charged past the King, Claron Pard reached down and snatched the crown from his head, a treasonous offence, but what cared Claron Pard for the petty laws of men?

While black residents made up roughly 67percentt of Ferguson's population, police seemed to only enforce certain petty municipal laws against African-Americans.

On the domestic side a long series of South African attempts to build up pro-South African parties with substantial black support failed even when trade unions were legalized, wages raised, and petty apartheid laws (including abolition of the contract labour and residence restrictions) relaxed.

You said in your evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRCC) that by the end of 1986, a lot of those - what have been called petty apartheid laws - had been dismantled; but if you break it down in a bit more detail, and you look at some of the things you were defending as a minister during the 1980s, you were fairly actively justifying apartheid laws.

The Guardian Teacher Network also has history lessons for 14- to 16-year-olds on the implementation of apartheid and the end of apartheid http://teachers.theguardian.com/ViewLesson.aspx?id=2351, which will help children to understand the impact of petty apartheid laws on the lives of ordinary people through an examination of primary sources including newspapers and oral accounts.

For the previous 12 years he had served in Botha's cabinet as a minister implementing the policy of apartheid in a series of portfolios, and although in 1986 he was responsible for the partial removal of many of the so-called petty apartheid laws, his reputation within South Africa was that of the leader of the so-called Verkrampte, or hard-line wing of the National party.