Sentence examples for in its legislative from inspiring English sources

In July, the National Rifle Association, which historically has stayed out of judicial nomination fights, came out against Justice Sotomayor and said it would include senators' confirmation vote in its legislative scorecard on gun-rights issues for the 2010 election, a pointed threat to Democrats from conservative-leaning states.

The influence of the federal government lay in its legislative power, illustrated by the enactment of the 2006 legislation.

EU laws themselves are increasingly made by majority vote; if Turkey got into the EU it would have the largest number of votes in its legislative bodies the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

It is important to bear such practical limits in mind nevertheless, since one possible way to delineate the limits of the law is that such practical limits are the only limits that States must negotiate in its legislative and more broadly legal behaviour, beyond the platitude that it must act in a morally acceptable way.

The court simply has no license to issue this kind of assertion at all when Congress, grounded in its legislative record and its own experience, has decided emphatically otherwise.

In its legislative agenda for 2011, the association recommends that Congress "exempt home care providers from the employer responsibilities" or require Medicaid and Medicare to help defray the costs.

Julia Gillard's government, without a majority in either chamber, was incredibly successful in implementing its legislative agenda, with Anthony Albanese playing a key role in negotiating with the crossbench MPs.

In 1986 it revealed its legislative might by disembowelling the 1968 Gun Control Act.

In 2010 it used its legislative majority to approve a law that requires elected officials to be suspended from office if charges of any kind are filed against them, even before any evidence has been presented in court.

The law was enacted in response to so-called "crush videos," in which, according its legislative history, women "talking to the animals in a kind of dominatrix patter" crushed them "with their bare feet or while wearing high-heeled shoes".

He joined The Daily Times in 1947 as a reporter in Watertown and was its legislative correspondent in Albany before going to Washington.