Sentence examples for legislative notice from inspiring English sources

However, the only extant legislative notice of boiling in England occurred in an Act passed in 1531 during the reign of Henry VIII, the preamble of which made poisoning a form of petty treason (i.e., killing one's husband or master), the penalty for which would be boiling to death.

Another pharmacist said he'd simply been too busy keeping up with other legislative changes to notice.

While much attention has been lavished on his far-reaching executive order to curtail the unseemly practice of doling out state contracts -- known as pay to play -- Mr. McGreevey has also been wielding his legislative pen in less-noticed, areas.

They continue to chatter about bipartisan legislative initiatives and bill conferencing, the more prescient of technological quick-fixes, pretending (I hope) not to notice the danger at the door.

Among other things, congressmen are able to flood voters' mailboxes with unlimited notices touting their legislative accomplishments, while their challengers have to pay weighty sums for similar PR efforts.An argument can be made that publicly-funded press operations lead to a more transparent and responsive government.

As a result of this differentiation, the existence of legislative gaps or omissions is noticed.

Speaking of Albany reporters covering the legislative process, some dogged ones noticed earlier this month that Cuomo tried to slip in a provision in the dark of night that would replace the honorary name of the Tappan Zee bridge from that of one former governor, Malcolm Wilson, to that of another: Cuomo's father, Mario.

He also ticked off a series of legislative measures that passed with little notice — an expansion of health care for lower-income children, new regulations on the tobacco and credit card industries and an overhaul of military acquisition.

Sure enough, with the executive and judicial branches awakening to the public's growing resentment of data rape, sleepy solons of the legislative branch are rubbing their eyes and noticing the issue.

Republican leaders contended that because they were dealing with a bill tied to a special session, they were required only to post a notice of the meeting on a legislative bulletin board.

Any time the left and the right find themselves allied against the center on legislative fights, Americans should sit up and take notice.