Sentence examples for achieved legislation from inspiring English sources

He would like to lame the unions — he has already proposed, and in part achieved, legislation to compel minimum services during transportation and education strikes — but he does not embrace the rest of the Thatcherite program of liberalism.

The California Film Commission (one of MIHH's enthusiastic backers) has now achieved legislation in which the State of California and the Hollywood state-of-mind can meet and beat those Euros and Canadian dollars and Icelandic whatever-they're-calleds.

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have taken flack for daring to cross party lines to achieve legislation or to analyze best practices.

The Supreme Court found that the city charter amendment, by singling out antidiscrimination ordinances, placed special burdens on racial minorities, making it more difficult for them to achieve legislation that was in their interest.

Equality cannot be achieved by legislation alone – it requires a massive cultural change.

Although the Justice Department lawsuit was an ill-conceived attempt to achieve through litigation what couldn't be achieved through legislation, the impulse that drove it remains potent.

This can be achieved through legislation in Rotherham where all schools must introduce elected pupil councils where children would be able to discuss their fears in the classroom.

Had this been achieved by legislation, it would have been a mistake, but the de facto corruption of our revenue laws by underfinancing and nonenforcement is a disaster.

Containment of the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic in Australia was a public health milestone — achieved through legislation that implicitly recognized the human rights of homosexuals.

They should tell him what can be achieved by legislation, what can be achieved by diplomacy, and what can be achieved only by denouncing the European convention on human rights — with all the diplomatic consequences that would follow.

So, if Singapore is proof that cleanliness can be achieved by legislation, Kigali and Dar es Salaam are definitely proof that motivation and communal spirit can work as well.