Sentence examples for legislative rights from inspiring English sources

The European Parliament has equal legislative rights to the other institutions.

But so far the federal government has listed only a few insignificant areas in which it is willing to relinquish its legislative rights.

With the introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, lesbians and gay men enjoy the same legislative rights as heterosexuals when married.

In 1776 appeared his first work on reform in Parliament, entitled, Take Your Choice a second edition appearing in 1777 under the new title of The Legislative Rights of the Commonalty Vindicated.

Pakistan Penal and Criminal Code changes that emerge as amendments to the law may only be enhancing existing provisions, but they bring hope as well as the important force of a changing legislative, rights and justice agenda to bear on the side of the vulnerable.

For example, chapter seven of the White Paper on Corrections in South Africa is dedicated to the question 'Who are South Africa's offenders?' and calls for the entrenchment of the legislative rights of all offenders.

Judge John D. Bates of Federal District Court in Washington is hearing the case, a fight over which branch of government's claim is paramount: the executive power to keep records confidential or the legislative right to investigate how money is spent.

"While capacity issues mean that it is still too soon to introduce a legislative right to restorative justice for victims, we urge the government to work towards this goal," Bob Neill, the Conservative chair of the committee, said.

A1 Cheney and Congress in Court A federal judge heard arguments from lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney and Congress's General Accounting Office over which branch of government's claim is paramount: the executive power to keep records confidential or the legislative right to investigate how public money is spent.

It makes bleak reading and led one of the committee, Baroness Jane Campbell, who is herself disabled, to ask: "Do we have such low value that it is easy to ignore our legislative right to be part of society?" Let's be clear, we are talking here about more than 11 million people who have some form of disability and, as we all live longer, that number is increasing.

A legislative right to death, if sanctioned by the state, doesn't just mean freedom to kill yourself, it imposes a duty on the state to provides the means to do so, she says.