Sentence examples for changing the legislation from inspiring English sources

Although it might now seem tame, at the time it was instrumental in changing the legislation against gays.

It booked $1.5bn in savings in the 2013-14 budget from repealing the tax cuts but did not get around to actually changing the legislation.

Before he became leader, Turnbull said publicly he wasn't opposed to debate about removing the words "insult" or "offend" from the RDA, but by October, when he was back leading the Liberal party, Turnbull ruled out changing the legislation.

"As happy coincidence would have it," Nick Clegg said, "around the same time as the world learned that the Duchess of Cambridge was pregnant we received confirmation from all of the fifteen realms that they now would go ahead with changing the legislation so that if the Duke and Duchess Cambridge have a baby girl, even if she in future has younger brothers, she will be able to become our Queen".

Therefore, other options must be explored, such as making space available for a nursery group in kindergartens, and changing the legislation to admit two year-olds.

Now we are going to modify all the things that resulted in the decrease of deforestation by changing the legislation," said Deputy Sarney Filho.

Among potential fixes, he said, would be focusing on only restricting gun purchasing for non-US citizens, or changing the current legislation to do more to protect the due process rights of Americans.

In his new book, My Scotland, Our Britain, Brown says he tried to change the Bank's name in1997, but he was "frustrated by age-old legal precedents that made changing the name through legislation even more difficult than making the institution independent".

Even so, Mr. Torricelli said, "I think to advance changing the tax reduction legislation in the midst of recession isn't good economics and it's worse politics".

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which represents some of the 13,000 gay men and lesbians discharged from the military since the policy took effect, is intensifying lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill — changing the policy requires legislation — and calling on the president to make good on his word.

"For anybody who has real hardships and can't repay their debts, the bankruptcy safety net remains as strong as ever," Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who sponsored the legislation changing the bankruptcy rules as a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an e-mail message.