Sentence examples for legislation up from inspiring English sources

Under the legislation, up to 20,000 prisoners could be freed over the next two years.

And she took a shot at Busch for not bringing the legislation up for a vote earlier.

Under the legislation up for the vote today, GS1708D, if a parish objected to a female bishop she would delegate to a stand-in male bishop.

Mr. Cuomo and other advocates have sought this week to flush wavering supporters into the open, in the process raising the political price for Senate Republicans of bottling the legislation up without a vote.

(The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, changed his vote from "yea" to "nay," but that was said to be for tactical reasons, so he could bring the legislation up again at a later date).

Representative Greg Harris, the bill's main sponsor, who is gay, announced at the last minute that he would not bring the legislation up for a floor vote, saying that he'd been asked by a number of his Democratic colleagues to delay it until the next session in order to give the legislators more time to discuss the bill with their constituents.

It also provides a tool for keeping the legislation up-to-date in response to technical progress and the increased understanding of, and concern for, the environment.

[Q: Some people say that politicians have hidden behind the idea that schools were autonomous when it came to dress codes. Do you think politicians are going to have to look at legislation?] Up until a couple of days ago, the policy for all schools to choose was pretty reasonable [ie, before the Flemish education council ruling, and a court ruling that schools alone should not choose dress codes].

The result was legislation setting up the civilian Atomic Energy Agency.

The future of legislation setting up Direct Action is unclear.

South Korea passed legislation setting up an emissions-trading scheme in 2015.