Sentence examples for legislating through from inspiring English sources

Legislating through popular ballot initiatives has been shown to be a blunt instrument in many states, most famously California.

Consequently, emperors ceased referring proposals to the Senate and, not long after the early imperial period, ended the practice of legislating through the Senate.

On Wednesday, lawmakers are due to vote on a motion criticizing the government's program for legislating through a referendum — a move certain to advertise Conservative divisions.

Life will certainly be marginally easier for President Obama if his party holds on to the House (he won't have to endure a spate of needling investigations, for one thing), but either way, the days of legislating through one-party governance are most likely coming to an end.

Instead of legislating through some semblance of compromise, which admittedly would have riled his base beyond imagination, he opted to reign over a do-nothing congress and bent to the reckless tactics of brinkmanship.

The predominance of courts in the everyday American decision-making process, regardless of the level -- local, state or federal -- clearly shows that the "regular" process of legislating through Congress and effectively implementing policies through the bureaucracy and executive branch (something Europe and most of the developed world would deem "regular") is somewhat dysfunctional.

He legislated through a senate that was elected by only 10% of the voters.

"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.

"Two more years are not a game-changer for Greece, and even if the troika accepts Samaras's plans, they will have to be legislated through the Greek Parliament, and the coalition could fall apart".

We have legislated, through the Justice and Security Act, to allow the use of closed material procedures in some civil cases so the courts can provide justice where sensitive information relating to national security is central to the case.

Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, who framed the Senate's action as a first step in a longer process, said, "This week will offer another opportunity for the Senate to return to regular order, an opportunity for this body to legislate through cooperation, through compromise, as we used to do".