Sentence examples for shift the law from inspiring English sources

Christopher Price, deputy chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, said: "It will give us publicity, even if it won't shift the law.

But the state high court might want to shift the law to meet new economic realities, they said.

However, in a series of other important cases, the Court gave the Chamber less than it wanted, while still managing to shift the law in a business-friendly direction -- Chamber overreach yielding real gains for the business community.

It would also shift the law's federal tax credits for insurance, so that the young and healthy get more relief, but the old and sick get less.

Fortunately, feminists succeeded in shifting the law and the culture of marriage.

Still, many of the ideas discussed in the wake of Newtown involve shifting the law in the direction of having more guns in schools.

Those include shifting the law's health insurance subsidies, which would offer less help to poor people, and dramatically cutting funds for Medicaid, which would free up money for tax cuts for the wealthy.

This could shift the focus of law enforcement toward drug dealers and their assets, and away from duties that don't result in bounties -- like arresting robbers and rapists and building connections with the community.

However, a piece of legislation regulating plant-protection products, which is awaiting its final reading in the European Parliament later this year, will shift the basis of the law towards an assessment of hazard.The legislation's supporters claim it will lead to some of Europe's most hazardous chemicals being withdrawn from the market.

According to a report in The Times on Sunday, the Cuomo bill would shift the state's abortion law from the criminal code to the health care laws where it belongs.

Opponents say that even if the ban is not overturned, they will fight to amend the law and shift the burden of guilt from the bar owner to the smoker.