Sentence examples for severe laws from inspiring English sources

'severe laws' is correct and usable in written English
You can use the phrase to refer to laws that are particularly strict or harsh. For example, "The government has established some severe laws in order to combat crime."

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In addition, masses of people quite loyal to the authorities suffered from the severe laws.

The severe laws that the movie describes were passed in the midst of the 1980's crack epidemic.

Coleridge believed that poetry was generated by "severe laws of the intellect"; Hazlitt believed that it was forged in the crucible of the sympathetic imagination.

The Russian Parliament has rushed through a series of severe laws that can be used against demonstrators, Western-financed nonprofit organizations, bloggers and other activists.

But it enforced what he called "very severe laws against the blacks" and thus exemplified the racism then rampant in America.

In 412 and 414 severe laws denied the Donatists civil and ecclesiastical rights; however, the Donatists expected hostility from the world as part of the natural order of things, and they survived into the 7th century.

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Then last week, the City Council heard a proposal to tighten an already severe law restricting smoking in restaurants.

Harsh as it may seem to some public employees, the Taylor Law replaced a more severe law passed in 1947, the Condon-Wadlin Act.

A Ugandan court has begunbegan hearing the case against two men accused of engaging in gay sex – the first trial of homosexuals in the country since a severe law was passed in February.

The state tried to pass an even more severe law, which would have set an 18-hour weekly limit on drivers who want to avoid additional steep regulations that would be enacted throughout the entire state.

He said there must be reform of the mental health system and argued there could be more severe law enforcement against gangs, but that measures such as regulating certain semi-automatic weapons would have dire consequences.

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