Sentence examples for devising legislation from inspiring English sources

This would empower them and their designees to work more closely with lawmakers in devising legislation and participating in hearings and other legislative work.

Compromise and consensus are important when devising legislation, but they are a poor recipe for creating a memorial.

Mr. Pell was best known for devising legislation that created the program that has dispensed grants to tens of millions of poor and middle-class college students.

Instead, they have said they will concentrate on reviving the once lively national press, streamlining government ministries, passing a national budget and devising legislation to encourage the formation of political parties.

Mr. Kean and Mr. Hamilton are scheduled to testify Friday at a hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which has been given the role in the Senate of devising legislation to respond to the commission's report.

The comments were a sign that something unusual was happening here as political leaders took big steps last week toward devising legislation to settle the state's unnerving energy crisis.

Mr. Quinn asked lawmakers to devise legislation that would include two rival plans — one advanced by Mr. Madigan and the other by the Senate president, John Cullerton.

The commission's biggest test was to devise legislation that would allow public financing of campaigns, the surest way to end Albany's pay-to-play culture.

We've marched, starved, petitioned, written letters, devised legislation and even gone entertainingly off-piste to raise awareness and register our rage.

Many of these politicians began meeting with labor leaders and other groups last year to devise legislation aimed at curbing police abuse.

The Bush administration spends billions spreading freedom abroad while at home it devises legislation to deny equal rights to gays and lesbians.