Sentence examples for underpinning laws from inspiring English sources

Collective bargaining and many of its underpinning laws and institutions are the product of major crises, not least the Great Depression of the 1930s, which became the inspiration for multi-employer bargaining and the rules that for half a century and longer ensured wide-ranging coverage of wage agreements.

In the aftermath of the initial Reformation settlement of 1560, Parliament passed the Witchcraft Act 1563, one of a series of laws underpinning Biblical laws and similar to that passed in England a year earlier, which made the practice of witchcraft itself, and consulting with witches, capital crimes.

Underpinning these laws are deeply entrenched discriminatory social attitudes," the report said.

Debate-fans will find a law degree often requires complex discussions of the fundamental concepts and policies underpinning the law in its modern form.

You could say that Venezuela now exists as a "lawless legality", a political system within which officials deny that in making or interpreting laws they are bound in any way by the spirit of justice that underpins those laws.

The programme, called Tempora, is unquestionably ingenious, but it is underpinned by laws that are outdated and poorly worded.

This includes teaching more mid-ranking officials how societies work when they are organised around market economies and underpinned by laws; and funding defector radio stations beaming news back into the North.That, though, is for the long term.

The financial market isn't a deterministic system underpinned by laws of nature, and attempts to treat it like one — such as contemporary risk-management techniques — are destined to backfire.

It is certainly possible that God sets up and maintains or underpins the laws of physics and allows them to work, so that being able to explain the big bang in terms of physics is not inconsistent with there being a role for God.

If we fritter away the principles that underpin law, if we pick them out of the crannies of our political and social architecture, restoration will be impossible.

The disclosures shed unprecedented light on the scale and sophistication of surveillance on both sides of the Atlantic – and the secret laws underpinning such programmes.