Sentence examples for pressing law from inspiring English sources

They have been pressing law enforcement officials to investigate the shootings as a possible bias crime.

With some of Hollywood's biggest stars pressing law enforcement officials to crack down on the most aggressive paparazzi, a skeptic might ask, is this the best use of the police?

"If somebody pulled off somebody's yarmulke, it would be a no-brainer," said Amardeep Singh, 37, a lawyer from Hoboken who is a co-founder and the executive director of the Sikh Coalition and has been pressing law enforcement officials to bring more bias charges.

Last week, after pressing our law student son (he of the broken finger) about a school transcript issue I've been worried about for him, he assured me it had been taken care of.

Local press reports taxi unions have been pressing for laws to be passed to regulate ride-hailing rivals.

Campaigners have recently been pressing for laws giving the right to paid bereavement leave.

Many people who do not necessarily disagree with tough policing also suspect Mr Sarkozy of pressing the law-and-order button as a last resort, when all else seems to be going wrong.

Provincial governors, he said, were pressing for a law to define their powers.

And Bush administration officials are still trying to make political headway in Iraq this year by pressing for a law defining the powers of provincial authorities and for provincial elections.

The Amnesty International has billed this alarming phenomenon as Pakistan's 'shameful retreat to the gallows' and it has rightly argued that such desperate measures are "no way to resolve Pakistan's pressing security and law and order problems".

It is also pressing ahead with laws to allow police to disperse groups of young people hanging around the streets despite a consultation which told them it was a bad idea.All this costs money, but nobody knows quite how much.