Sentence examples for joint legislation from inspiring English sources

AME raised options to achieve marriage equality this term, including a cross-party working group to introduce joint legislation and an inquiry to demonstrate public support for same-sex marriage.

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One senior aide who works for the senator said that on their first day on the job, staffers were given a singular mandate: make friends with Democrats, and persuade senators across the aisle to partner on joint legislation that would appeal to liberals.

For example, even as Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III defend the law in the Senate today, Sens. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill). have scheduled a news conference to introduce joint legislation aimed at scaling back parts of the law.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 1778) presented and critiqued Saint-Pierre's proposal, listing several conditions including that all major powers must be members, that the joint legislation must be binding, that the joint forces must be stronger than any single state, and that secession must be illegal.

The joint legislation features a rarely used process for amending the Constitution, which typically requires a two-thirds approval by Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.

The eventual conviction of the killers of black teenager Stephen Lawrence was secured using joint enterprise legislation.

The next time Mr. Rubio is likely to appear with his colleagues in the eight-person bipartisan group could be an even bigger moment, when its members officially introduce joint immigration legislation this month.

For example, Italy fine-tuned its joint custody legislation in 2006, but "la mamma" still ends up doing most of the child rearing, according to Umberto Vaghi, a real estate agent and advocate with the I Love Papá Association, which organizes an annual Daddy's Pride Parade in Rome and fights for the rights of fathers and minors.

And since the joint tax legislation would still let individuals take deductions for charitable donations, states might let people make deductible "donations" in exchange for a state tax credit.

However, if we take that view, then it is time we made efforts to draft joint asylum legislation.