Sentence examples for legislative definition from inspiring English sources

Harman hinted there might be a need for legislation, saying the issue was "on the boundary between prosecutorial discretion and legislative definition".

Periodically there are calls for Congress to provide a legislative definition of insider trading similar to that found in other countries.

Using a recent microeconomic database we empirically estimate the relation between intangible assets, advertising expenses, revenues and profits for Italian Visual Arts, whose sample is defined referring to the latest legislative definition that includes 'landscape'landscape

The definition of piracies might perhaps without inconveniency, be left to the law of nations; though a legislative definition of them, is found in most municipal codes.

However, the entire route was marked as SR 160, and in 1981 the legislative definition was changed to reflect this.

Over the weekend, news broke that the Trump administration was considering imposing a new legislative definition of gender that would effectively erase the legal existence of transgender people.

Third, on the part of technology companies, greater transparency is needed when it comes to government definitions of terrorism and extremism for legislative purposes, particularly on definitions of terrorism online.

There is little legislative history discussing the definition of "employee" in the ADEA, so petitioners point to the legislative history of the identical definition in Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 2000e(f).

"We can at least make a legislative declaration that the definition of 'natural born' includes children of the active military," she said.

There is no question but that agency rulemaking is lawmaking in any functional or realistic sense of the term".76 Moreover, Justice White noted, "rules and adjudications by the agencies meet the Court's own definition of legislative action..

But legislative matters are by definition quite complex (which is, of course, ostensibly why we elect people to deal with them on a full-time basis).