"Damn your legislation, laws and the state you have established!" one woman shouted from the camp, denouncing the government of Mr. Assad.
As Governor of Georgia, Carter was responsible for adding various anti-piracy (bootlegging) laws into the legislation, laws which obviously affected Walden's record business.
Much of the Great Society legislation — laws that created the Medicare, Medicaid, the National Endowment for the Arts and financed public schools — passed Congress when Democrats commanded supermajorities in both houses in 1965 and 1966.
Mahmoud Abaza, the leader of Egypt's venerable liberal party, the Wafd, says that neither his organisation nor the ruling National Democratic Party has any impact on legislation: laws are written by technicians and the job of the parliament is to provide a rubber-stamp.
My discomfort with hate crime legislation — laws prescribing that a crime committed with a head full of bigotry can be punished more severely than the identical crime committed out of, say, predatory greed or plain old cruelty — has stimulated a lively discussion.
The state does need federal water legislation — laws that incentivize agricultural and urban efficiency and assist in groundwater cleanup and recharging.
