21.   Last month, Britain scrapped laws making homosexuality a crime in the Cayman Islands and four other territories after local legislatures refused to do so.

22.   Last year, parliament, pushed by reformers, scrapped a law that required all public meetings to be licensed by the state.

23.   Lawyers for the newspaper urged the provincial government to scrap the law, saying it was too vague and could inhibit the media from carrying controversial viewpoints.

24.   The Awami League protesters shouted anti-government slogans and demanded that the government should not scrap the law.

25.   The country aspires to join the European Union and is under pressure to scrap laws that restrict freedom of expression.

26.   The government moved Tuesday to scrap a law providing special security and other state facilities to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister.

27.   The National Commission on Human Rights has suggested that the law be scrapped, saying it encourages violation of basic rights.

28.   The parliamentary elections will be the first since Rao began to scrap cumbersome laws, reduce customs tariffs and woo foreign investors to revive a nearly collapsed economy.

29.   The punitive damages bill would scrap state laws and make them all the same.

30.   They wanted the government to scrap a law that allows police to detain people for three months without citing a reason.