Sentence examples for legislation above from inspiring English sources

For creating "legislation above the laws" at Napoleon's behest, its 80 handpicked members were opulently rewarded with money and honours.

Employers say they are wary of overreaching and will not insist on subsidies or tax credits that push the cost of the legislation above the amount allocated by Congress, $400 billion over 10 years.

Readers, take an active step with me to close the women's wealth gap by contacting your representatives and urging them to support the legislation above.

We do not seem to have learnt anything from the experience of our American brethren … cannot our legislators understand that our only hope of stamping out the drug addict is through the doctors, that legislation above the doctors' heads is likely to prove our undoing and that we can no more stamp out addiction by prohibition than we can stamp out insanity?

Democrats offered amendments to raise that funding to the $2.45 billion requested by President Barack Obama, but Republicans rejected the measures, arguing that increasing Amtrak's funding without cutting spending elsewhere would put the legislation above spending caps and threaten to kill the whole bill.

In our time series analysis, we none the less could not confirm that the reduction in the rate of head injuries was an independent effect of helmet legislation above and beyond the concomitant declining trend in the rate of head injuries observed throughout Canada.

"How can the polls be neck and neck," the playwright Arthur Miller lamented during the 2004 election, "when I don't know one Bush supporter?" Gerrymandering — the redrawing of political districts by partisan legislation from above — partly accounts for increasing polarization.

Under the legislation discussed above, over time sixteen Regions have recognised 82 districtsl.

The Transition Town movement is taking hold in the U.S., where communities are not waiting for legislation from above but are taking the lead in locally restructuring for energy descent, and in the process reweaving relations with neighbors and extended community.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Aurangabad Circle, on the basis of the above legislation and rules, maintain and manage the monuments.

And today I dream of a career in a top law firm somewhere abroad -- but only if the legislation named above is changed.