The film, Brokeback Mountain, passed film censors this year, in spite of the country's stringent laws against homosexuality.
In Canada and Britain, both with stringent laws, nearly half of all burglaries occur when residents are present.
India's crime statistics show that police registered more than 133, 000 cases from 2004 to 2008 under the country's stringent laws to protect Dalits against atrocities.
Despite stringent laws to prevent crimes against the Dalit community, atrocities against them have been on the rise in the state, which has a substantial Dalit population.
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Some gun-control advocates said the legislation gave New York the nation's most stringent firearms laws.
More stringent forestry laws await cabinet approval before being sent to the National Assembly.
Investment companies are subject to stringent federal laws and oversight by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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California passed the most stringent heat laws in the nation three years ago after four farmworkers died in the field.
Pakistan has extremely stringent blasphemy laws which mean if someone is accused of blaspheming, the police are obliged to register a case and make an arrest.
What makes Japan's widespread DWW particularly surprising is that Japan has some of the most stringent traffic laws in the world such as a zero percent blood-alcohol standard for drivers.
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Other than the Olympic Games, Mr. Bolt hasn't appeared in a race in Britain since 2009, citing stringent taxation laws which mean he would end up paying more in tax than he earns from competing.
Mark Rhoades, vice president for legislation at the U.S. Internet Council, another industry group in Washington, said Virginia has by far the most stringent Internet laws because about half of all emails in the U.S. go through America Online, based in Dulles, Virginia, a Washington suburb.
Asked about India's stringent nuclear liability laws, Mr. Immelt said GE "won't take any enterprise risk" because of the laws.
One sign of greater labour-market flexibility is that companies are bypassing stringent job-protection laws that make it hard to fire workers.
Britain's are among the least stringent job-protection laws: of the 40 countries in the index compiled by the OECD, only America and Canada have looser rules (see chart).
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As Mr Hazare went on hunger strike in April 2011 to demand stringent anti-corruption laws, in particular a law to create an ombudsman to deal with allegations of corruption, Mr Kejriwal was by his side, making speeches, briefing reporters and formulating strategy.
Even in Britain, where anti-discrimination laws are relatively stringent, Muslims tend to be poor.
Besides raising individual donation limits, Congress and state legislators should also make disclosure laws much more stringent.
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So far the matter has been a bigger headache for Google outside the U.S., where privacy laws are more stringent.
"So the Supreme Court would need to subject these laws to what we call a very stringent standard of review" balancing the government's justification for enacting them, she added.
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Under the new bankruptcy laws, which took effect on Oct. 17, companies have to meet more stringent requirements before having the luxury of wiping their debts clean.
While several federal laws are in place to protect personal data, Nevada and Massachusetts have passed more stringent legislation to protect consumer information from data breaches.
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Still, is that discrepancy causally connected to right-to-work laws or to other employment-friendly attributes lower corporate taxes or a less stringent regulatory environment in the right-to-work state?
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