Sentence examples for legislation attempted from inspiring English sources

And that is what this legislation attempted to do.

Senator Collins added that the committee's legislation "attempted to strike the right balance between promoting a flexible system and protecting employee rights".

In 1824, the state legislature, unhappy with the court's rulings against debt relief legislation, attempted to abolish the court and replace it with a new court.

As part of the Augustan programme to restore traditional morality and social order, moral legislation attempted to regulate the conduct of men and women as a means of promoting "family values".

North Dakota's legislation attempts to interfere in the race between medical and social advancement.

In 1855 Dickens opposed another piece of class-biased legislation attempting to stop Sunday trading.

In 1996 Congress passed legislation attempting to tighten the policing of immigration laws.

The legislation attempts to speed foreclosures in several ways, including by requiring lenders to move more quickly.

The legislation attempts to regulate the clinics and doctors engaged in reproductive technologies and their relationship with prospective surrogate mothers.

By ensuring the protection of persons disclosing information to the media in Act CIV of 2010, the Hungarian legislation attempts to pay its long-overdue debt.

In this year there was some adjustment of Octavian's powers to allow him to exercise them more freely in Italy, and the two following years witnessed social legislation attempting to encourage marriage, regulate penalties for adultery, and reduce extravagance.