Sentence examples for legislation outlining from inspiring English sources

In the House, lawmakers are preparing to take action soon on legislation outlining the conditions for spending the final $350 billion of the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

Long-ignored 1981 legislation outlining entertainment licensing categories was resuscitated, and contrary to the normally laissez-faire Thai attitude toward lawfulness, the regulations began to be enforced.

This year the central government passed legislation outlining steep sanctions and suspensions for leaders who fail to comply with the orders of the constitutional court, with the aim of quelling defiance.

Some said the measure was not appropriate to legislation outlining the federal government's spending priorities, and budget negotiators tried to limit non-budget measures included in the bipartisan deal struck by Ryan and Murray.

And he called on Congress to pass sweeping civil rights legislation – outlining a series of proposals that would later be included in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

When the UK became party to the ICC's Rome Statute in 2001, it passed domestic legislation outlining criminal liability in cases where military commanders failed to take "necessary and reasonable measures" to stop violations, or if they "consciously disregarded information" which indicated subordinates were committing or going to commit offenses.

"We support the overarching goals of the legislation outlined today," he said.

So Republicans might have to revise the legislation outlined on Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve, in a 22-page proposal required by the Dodd-Frank financial legislation, outlined initial criteria for identifying "systemically important financial institutions," whose collapse would pose a serious threat to the economy.

The ritualised ceremony of the former is spectacular (if a trifle tedious once you've seen it before); the legislation outlined in the latter is often fiddly and disconnected.

Under legislation outlined in the Queen's Speech, hastily cobbled together in the wake of the surprise Tory victory, there will be a ban on "any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect", apart from specified exemptions such as alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, food and medical products.