Sentence examples for it was a legislative from inspiring English sources

For Arpaio, it was a legislative endorsement he didn't need — officers were already allowed to inquire about people they deemed suspicious, and unauthorized immigrants have long known they needed to be careful in Maricopa County.

It was a legislative route around a major surveillance reform bill, belatedly championed by the White House and NSA, that excluded a prohibition on the so-called "backdoor search" – an exclusion that helped cement the administration's support.

It was a legislative twofer: Ms. Rangel and others reasoned that every child in the top 10 percent at one high school ought to be equal, educationally speaking, to every other one, and that the mix of students in the state's colleges and universities ought to look like the mix of residents of the state as a whole.

And it was a legislative war on smell including an 1868 ban on slaughterhouses below Fortieth Street that drove industrial manufacturers from Manhattan into the less strictly regulated boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, which today still houses the city's largest sewage-treatment plant.

But it was a legislative spat over sheepshearing that ultimately doomed his future in the House of Representatives.

L.J. Reeve, on the other hand, considers it to have had the strength of a public bill; it was a legislative act, and as such legally binding.

It's a legislative priority.

"It's a legislative decision," McNutt said.

It's a legislative JUSTICE BREYER.

It's a legislative programme that will alienate as well as soothe.

It is a legislative theme Democrats plan to highlight, even as House Republicans try to keep the focus on economic issues.