Sentence examples for legislated against from inspiring English sources

"legislated against" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a law or other form of legislation that is meant to prevent or restrict a certain activity or behavior. For example, "The city legislated against smoking in public areas."

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Congress has also legislated against such methods.

Racial discrimination is still a huge problem, and is widely and rightly legislated against.

Indeed, the stroke conforms to the Laws of Cricket and will not be legislated against.

It was also the first time lesbians and gay men had been legislated against as one group.

And the reaction to Daley's coming out showed an interesting cultural problem, not to be legislated against.

Friendships cannot be legislated against, but business ties, such as consultancy fees or supplier relationships, could be barred, either by law or by stock-exchange requirements.

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Again: more damaging evidence of legislators not understanding the exact thing they're supposed to be legislating against.

Would you legislate against this?

A future Parliament was forbidden to legislate against it.

We can try to legislate against emotional abuse.

You might as well legislate against Christmas or Coronation Street.

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