Sentence examples for legislate standards from inspiring English sources

A Kerry administration "would ask Congress to legislate standards and to direct the Federal Trade Commission and bank regulators to impose regulations consistent with those standards," Mr. Sperling said.

Their first step was to figure out how to get merchant card terminals to support NFC and the means to do this was, once again, to define and legislate standards.

But in the press conference the special minister of state conceded the government didn't have the power to legislate for advertising standards from groups not receiving public funds or those without charitable status.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that according to Afroyim v. Rusk, "Congress is constitutionally devoid of the power" to revoke citizenship; and further, that Congress had no power to legislate any evidentiary standard for proving Terrazas's intent to relinquish his citizenship that fell short of a requirement of proof by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence.

The national standards also legislate that chickens have "meaningful and regular" access to an outdoor range, but do not specify the definitions of the terms.

When state and federal governments legislate health and safety standards for institutions or industries, the implication is that persons' well-being is of some value, or holds an importance to society.

Simply legislating for higher living standards, for example by calling for ever-higher rates for the "living wage" won't fool anyone.

Health advocates, meanwhile, are increasingly urging that the government intervene by legislating and enforcing objective standards over and above any that the industry imposes or claims to impose.

While in these other spheres of validity, objective norms and subjective attitudes are fully separable, the autonomy of experience legislates a normative standard that involves a specific relationship between subjective experience and objective norm.

If Metcalf has his way,accounting standards will be legislated by a federal agency the way meat standards or drug standards are.

"We view this simply as an effort to legislate through litigation rather than pursuing standards through Congress," said Steven Brash, a spokesman for Cinergy, which is based in Cincinnati.