The Kalash people spurn Islamic law by drinking, taking drugs, and partying.
More on the rule of law spurned: Glenn Greenwald has a discussion of the Obama Administration's apparent acceptance, in congressional hearings this week, of the Bush Administration's proposition that we can keep holding Guantánamo detainees as long as we want, even if they actually get to a court and are acquitted there.
These programs enable debt-ridden graduates of some 50 schools to spurn lucrative law-firm offers and do what they really want to do -- defend the indigent, work for the environment, oppose the death penalty.
Does Italian law actually permit spurned lovers to sue? How do you say in Italian, "Is this a great country, or what?" One of the strangest but most arresting characters, Ornella de Monterecchi, is the Italian press officer's mother.
So far only 22 states have passed this kind of law, and California, New York and Texas have all spurned it.
"Senator Corzine is clearly sidestepping state election law and spurning the spirit of campaign finance reform," Mr. Kyrillos said.
Over the next year, as the Republicans sought to protect vulnerable incumbents, they agreed to several measures they had spurned, including gun controls, major new health care programs and a hate-crime law.
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid under Iran's Islamic law, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The Senate spurned his calls to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and to rewrite campaign finance laws, and rejected a proposal by Assembly Democrats to raise the minimum wage.
But two years ago voters spurned a chance to legalise recreational use when confronted with what was widely criticised as a poorly written and overly broad law.
