Sentence examples for basis legislation from inspiring English sources
On this basis, legislation was introduced to parliament in 2005, and withdrawn in 2006 in the face of strong opposition.
In a letter to David Jones, Gwenith Price said that while Crown body language schemes are prepared on a voluntary basis, legislation does provide that once adopted, they are set in law.
"As I have tried to explain, however, that alone cannot provide a basis for legislation because we and Governments of all persuasions must accept the legal conditions in which we operate, whether under legislation previously passed by the house or to which we have become signatories as part of international law.
"The Koran is inadequate as a basis for legislation," said Nilufer Narli, a professor of sociology at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
MI5 was first to be placed on a statutory basis by legislation that set out its functions.
Each move was met by fierce opposition from groups claiming it violated Islam -- and the countries' constitutional references to it as the basis of legislation.
The Council has been doing just that, but on a case-by-case basis as legislation on a particular subject is drafted.
By ruling out moral disapproval as a permissible basis for legislation, Kennedy, in the eyes of liberal activists and social conservatives alike, made it more likely that lower courts will come to recognize a constitutional right to gay marriage.
The draft has been criticised for its ambiguous language on civil liberties, women's and minority rights and freedom of expression, as well as its concentration on enshrining sharia law as the basis for legislation.
