Sentence examples for impose legislation from inspiring English sources

Having grown frustrated with the intransigence of elected local leaders, international officials now rely heavily on the high representative's powers to impose legislation.

He reminded the house that the UK has the power to impose legislation on northern ireland whether it was devolved issue or not.

But its role was hampered by resistance from domestic elites, and, in 1997, the "Bonn powers", which allowed the HR to dismiss obstructive politicians and impose legislation, were created.

Baroness Randerson, the Lords spokesperson for the Northern Ireland office said the government in London did not consider it right on this occasion to impose legislation on the province which is "in a period of transition".

LONDON (Reuters) — The British government warned on Friday that it would impose legislation on Internet service providers by April 2009 if they did not work with the music and film industries to curb illegal downloading.

But the Nassau-Suffolk CountheSchool Boards Associnitialopposedraftsinitial drafts of the legislation, arguing that they overstepped the counties' authority to impose legislation on school districts and put too much burden and liability on the schools.

The federal government has to meet with First Nations immediately to begin finding solutions rather than unilaterally imposing legislation.

Still when the United States Congress approved this, they sustained the capacity of imposing legislation over Puerto Rico's Government and retaining ultimate power over all of Puerto Rico's affairs.

The bill has aroused fears that President-elect Vicente Fox's conservative and staunchly Catholic National Action Party will try to impose similar legislation elsewhere.

Unless agreement could be reached on a "complete re-examination" of economic, financial and judicial arrangements between the two states, they said, the government would impose new legislation.

Other states, which are otherwise decent, panic amidst the wartime situation and impose emergency legislation which turns out to have been complete overkill, and which they later regret and view as the product of fear rather than reason.