Sentence examples for prohibited authorities from inspiring English sources

Introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government in 1988, Section 28 was part of the Local Government Act and prohibited authorities in England and Wales from "promoting" homosexuality.

Laws in states including Idaho and Alaska prohibit authorities from registering firearms or enforcing any local ordinance that regulates the registration of firearms.

Other sets of bills would prohibit authorities from confiscating weapons during emergencies and would eliminate the requirement that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation perform backgrounds checks on potential gun owners because they are already screened once by weapons dealers.

There are legitimate reasons for law enforcement to record some calls — for example, if a defendant is under investigation — but there are state statutes and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel that prohibit authorities from listening to conversations with their lawyers.

Section 28, which prohibited local authorities from "promoting homosexuality", was still law until 2003, only 10 years ago.

Her state, among the nation's most liberal, is the only one that has committed to eliminating coal-fired electricity, and it has long prohibited local authorities from enforcing federal immigration laws.

"The draft bill also prohibited the authorities from looking at the content of messages and surely we should expect people under the kind of surveillance possible in this case to be having their messages read?

Nutter's policy did two things: First, it prohibited local authorities from holding a non-citizen after the time when the person should be released from custody for the original reason for his or her detainment (unless the federal government files separate criminal charges).

Lady Hale said that, while out-of-borough placements were not prohibited, the authority had not properly explained its decision or provided evidence to show that the property in Bletchley "was sufficient to discharge their legal obligations" under laws governing the housing of homeless people.

Oregon and Oklahoma voted to prohibit local authorities from banning the phones.

Louisiana law prohibits the authorities from charging the child with a crime because of his age.