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the law proposes
noun
The body of rules and standards issued by the legislative body, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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The law proposes to increase compulsory schooling by four years, up from eight grades.
The law proposes fines for those who "use foreign words and expressions which do not meet the norms of literary Russian and which have commonly used equivalents in literary Russian".
In other words, they can impose a kind of community service order on people who have committed no crime, which could, the law proposes, remain in force for the rest of their lives.
Faced with accusations that MPs should put their own house in order and clamp down on political parties that prefer to incur fines than field female candidates – only 155 of France's 577 MPs are women – the law proposes to double the financial penalties levied.
For principled limits can be generated out of the means that the law proposes to achieve its aims.
The law proposes increasing taxes on all inheritances bigger than $35,400, with an increasing scale based on the size of the inheritance.
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The state should pass the law proposed in March to end the death penalty.
Mothers' and babies' calculations of love reflect the law proposed by the late William Hamilton, a creative genius of sociobiology.
The law proposed by Mr. Baker and Mr. Christopher does little more than lay out additional rules for confirming past unconstitutional practices.
"The changes in the law proposed by the federal government are insufficient to guarantee the safety of the drinking water or to satisfy the requirements for the beer purity law," said Peter Hahn, head of the brewers association, according to Bild.
Never mind that Mr. Colson dishonored the law, proposed bombing the Brookings Institution and went to prison for his role in the break-in to steal the psychiatric records of The Times's Deep Throat on Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg.
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