Sentence examples for repressive provisions from inspiring English sources
Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law.
But these three aims achieved, the fourth must be an avoidance of any merely vengeful or repressive provisions against Germany, which would provide genuine grievances for a new Hitler.
Looking ahead, Ms. Gateru describes some of the priorities she sees for Kenya's LGBT-rights movement: documenting evidence of discrimination and violence against LGBT persons and fighting repressive provisions in Kenya's penal code, specifically the criminalization of homosexuality.
But just as we participants in OGP are trying to learn from each other's best practices -- that's the goal of a summit like this -- autocratic governments and backsliding governments are replicating worst practices, in some instances even copy-pasting provisions from regressive and repressive legislation from one country to the next.
During the first year and a half in the White House, Nixon demanded that Congress pass a tough, omnibus anti-crime bill that contained controversial, and openly repressive, "no knock," stop and frisk and preventive detention provisions.
The "post welfare world" is based on the premise that welfare provision and the NHS cannot continue in the face of repressive financial cuts and ever-growing demand for services.
Opponents of the provisions, including some Republicans from districts with large immigrant communities, scoffed at the idea that repressive governments like those of Cuba or Sudan could be trusted if they gave assurances that their citizens deported from the United States would not be subjected to torture.
The reinstatement of aid with democratic preconditions, but also without human rights provisions indicates that the U.S. is betting against the Egyptian people and siding with their repressive regime.
Before 2013, when the supreme court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina and Texas would not have been able to pass their repressive voting laws because they would have been blocked by the justice department's civil rights division.
Most are repressive and unpopular.
