Sentence examples for unequal laws from inspiring English sources

In 1855, when she married Henry B. Blackwell, an Ohio abolitionist and brother of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, she retained her own name (as a protest against the unequal laws applicable to married women) and became known as Mrs. Stone.

Unequal laws unto a savage race,   That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

His judicial approach was influenced by the fact that although the ruling National Party had built up a framework of racist and unequal laws aimed at repressing the rights of non-whites, the country had retained the underlying structure and principles of Anglo-Dutch common law.

If passed, ENDA would establish a "separate, but unequal" law of employment discrimination for LGBT people.

Whether you're a world leader who can increase investment in girls, a business that can change your equal pay policies or a person who can directly lobby your government decision-maker to change an unequal law -- now is the time to act and invest in girls and women.

Unequal marriage laws probably make very little difference to the bottom line.

Nussbaum sides with the Mormons, primarily, it seems, because their opponents hypocritically kept their own wives bound by unequal marriage laws.

Unequal inheritance laws may have powered the drive towards education and training, making those areas better suited for switching between industries when the economic circumstances called for it.

The contract is unequal: the "Laws" compare themselves to parents and slaveowners, and Socrates to child and slave.

"Unequal marriage laws were the reason you and your older brothers were born in Maine," my father told me.

What: It's annual "Go Topless" day nationwide, when women are encouraged to go topless and men to don bikini tops to protest America's unequal topless laws.