Sentence examples for had legislated from inspiring English sources

Although previous rulers had legislated on occasion, Louis IX was the first to express his will regularly in statutory form.

Her input, which had an occasional frankness about it, was revealing in some ways: although she had legislated on porn-ography, she had never seen any, and had no idea it was freely available online.

Years ago, former Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California, somewhat facetiously introduced a bill in the House of Representatives providing that all members of Congress should lose their employer-based insurance coverage until they had legislated a truly universal health insurance system in this country.

The Northern Territory, meanwhile, underwent its own transformation: the former NT government had legislated in May to extend the use of barbaric restraint chairs in youth detention; last week the new government completely banned the use of the chairs on children.

When the main debate got under way, Mrs May said she understood concerns over the warrant but said she had legislated to make it "better and safer".

But Labour said the tax pledge could easily be reversed by Parliament in the future, arguing that the Conservatives had legislated to balance the books by 2015 but had failed to do so.

The government has legislated for important changes in education.

The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has legislated that any deal be put to a referendum.

Parliament has legislated a cap on water buybacks and any change would need a new vote.

The government has legislated for a referendum if powers are transferred to Brussels.

Could Blair have legislated in haste, only to repent at his opponents' leisure?