"law" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some unenforced laws remain on the books.
- In January 2012, Brownback did not include Kansas's sodomy law in a list of unenforced and outdated laws that the legislature should repeal.
- The laws, long unenforced, allowed the governor to suspend mandatory school attendance or close colleges if violence was threatened, allowed the state to give students grants to attend secular private schools and allowed local governments to lease public school buildings to private schools.
- But in 2000, the National Council on Disability called the law essentially unenforced except by parent litigation, which many parents cannot afford.
- "The 21 drinking age law is the most unenforced law in the country," said Arthur Sandeen, vice president of student affairs at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
- But others hail the legal pound-shedding, contending that leaving unenforced laws on the books undermines public respect for law itself.
- But we should not criminalize or deport those who saw an unenforced law for the last two decades, and who have proved to be law-abiding, hard-working people.
- An unenforced law (also symbolic law) is a crime which is illegal, but is usually not penalized by a juridsiction.
- If you're feeling anarchic, walk through the central portal, a privilege reserved by (unenforced) law for the royal family and the ceremonial King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
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