Sentence examples for corrective legislation from inspiring English sources

If Congress wants to reverse such de facto legislative moves, say defenders of this judicial power-grabbing, it can pass corrective legislation, as it did with the 1991 Civil Rights Act in response to related Court decisions.

This needs corrective legislation.

Congress will have to write corrective legislation.

Otherwise, the incoming president and Congress will need to pass corrective legislation.

Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat of New York, has introduced corrective legislation in the House.

In the past, disputes such as the funding fight would have been resolved with corrective legislation.

"In their effect they are like well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced corrective federal civil-rights legislation".

Anti-rape activists are pushing for more legal reform: an amendment of the sexual-offenses act to allow for heavier sentences, and the introduction of hate-crimes legislation, which would address corrective rape.

ReprintsD-66, which managed to win only 9% in that poll but is beloved by many Dutch intellectuals and civil servants, was happily steering a bill through parliament that would have enabled the Dutch to hold "corrective referendums" to let them amend and even veto parliamentary legislation by direct vote.

The Senate Republican leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, said today that the need for legislation defining patients' rights had been significantly reduced by voluntary corrective actions of health insurance companies and by passage of state laws to protect patients in most states.

WA's corrective services commissioner, James McMahon, told a parliamentary estimates committee in 2014 the proposed legislation would put an extra 206 adults and 60 juveniles behind bars within four years, at a cost of about $93m.