Sentence examples for Legislate from inspiring English sources

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Legislate

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To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).

  • If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.

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But the one that irks conservatives most is Roe v Wade.The American wayOther countries expect their legislators to legislate on contentious moral issues.

It's not a very prescriptive working theory, unless your priors lead you to believe that the solution to any given problem is decentralisation of power.All of which is to say that it's all well and good to argue that legislators and regulators aren't going to have enough knowledge to regulate and legislate, and should therefore be stripped of some of their powers.

Many more whales and dolphins die each year through pollution, bycatch, ship-strike: who is going to legislate for them?

My party and, indeed, the Conservative party have been on record as being very against the proposal by the previous Labour government, for instance, to legislate for a wider amnesty and we want to see the rule of law always be applied.

The Tory manifesto said in vague terms that a Conservative government "would legislate to ensure trade unions use a transparent opt-in process for union subscriptions", but made no mention of the political levy.

The issue is a political hot potato in a country forever debating the power of Europe to legislate our lives.

Such a failure to legislate would be a moral hazard of such a scale as to confirm, even to many unionists, that the UK government has indeed become corrupted, and that the referendum was won on a lie.

Savings from the higher education package remain factored in to the budget bottom line because the government says it will try a third time to legislate these changes, despite the Senate holding firm in opposition.

"Our review will tell us the best ways to legislate for adoption equality, to make sure we get it right.

The government will legislate to make sure those groups it intended to exempt from the excise increases – primarily farmers and miners – would not have to pay the increase.

But its chances also depend on how Fidesz will legislate on voter registration, because its goal is to usher Fidesz voters to the polls and keep the undecided at home.

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