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pass law

noun

  1. (formerly, in South Africa) a law restricting the movement of Black Africans, esp from rural to urban areas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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To become an attorney who works in juvenile justice, you will be required to obtain an undergraduate degree and pass law school.

That’s a sensitive subject for the DEA: Last May, federal prosecutors charged a retired agency supervisor in Miami and an active-duty agent with taking part in an alleged scheme to pass law enforcement information to defense attorneys representing traffickers.

“California can pass law after law after law,” she said, “and the federal law will always trump us.”

Emma Bonino, a leftist former foreign minister who helped pass Law 194, said it showed the risk in Italy of moving backwards and of "losing achievements that had seemed permanent."

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The Covid pass law will expire at 0000 GMT on Friday morning.

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