"law" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Following is the 57-to-42 roll-call vote by which the Senate voted today to expand a federal hate-crimes law.
- She added that Mr. Bush had rejected her family's pleas to memorialize him with a statewide hate-crimes law.
- But because they could still face charges under the state's hate-crimes law, the students' lawyers said, they could not offer apologies or admissions of guilt.
- "The law historically has gone against punishing people for their thoughts, and that is what hate-crimes laws do," Ms. Anders said.
- Mr. Geringer said that Dennis Shepard also said: "Don't rush into just passing all kinds of new hate-crimes laws.
- The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state's four-year-old hate-crimes law on Monday, saying it was "unconstitutionally vague."
- But the court said the hate-crimes law established a sentence for additional conduct, selecting the victim.
- While hate-crimes laws cannot enhance the penalties for murder, not all hate crimes are deadly.
- By 2000, when the state enacted its hate-crimes law, the number had dropped to 467.
- Texas already has a five-year-old hate-crimes law that provides a stricter penalty for crimes motivated by hatred of a group, though it does not specify which groups.
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