1.   But opponents claim the law interferes with state and municipal authority and forces governments to be unnecessarily tolerant.

2.   Bankers contend that these laws interfere with their business decisions, while consumer advocates say that banks too often ignore the laws.

3.   Laws in many states require insurers to pay out claims immediately on their policies, but the federal law could interfere with that.

4.   No law interfered, no press spoke out.

5.   New laws could constitutionally interfere with religion, as long as they treated all religions the same way, the court said in that case.

6.   The act would have required a state to show it had a compelling interest whenever a neutral state law interfered with legitimate religious worship.

7.   The Legislature should not be intimidated by arguments that the proposed law would interfere with religious practices.

8.   The study contends the laws would interfere with the flow of trade because they are stricter than international standards.

9.   But another ministry official, Panom Pongpaiboon, said new laws could interfere with freedom of religion.

10.   Human rights lawyers have protested the laws interfered with the rights of private groups.