Sentence examples for legislative safeguards from inspiring English sources

Several other political candidates have also criticized lack of legislative safeguards on both the state and Federal levels.

The book then moves on to assess whether these new powers and the new legislative safeguards introduced are compatible with international human rights standards.

He recalled his outburst: "And you are willing to have the president of Argentina become a dictator, bypass all the legislative safeguards of a democratic system?

The real problem is that without strong legislative safeguards and oversight, billions of taxpayer dollars are sure to be wasted through insufficiently competitive contracts to politically connected firms like Halliburton and Bechtel.

Voting rights advocates have warned that 2016 will be the first presidential election since a 2013 supreme court ruling severely weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which offered significant legislative safeguards to African American, Latino and other minority voters.

Exclusion of migrant domestic workers from the host country's legislative safeguards – labour laws and occupational health and safety provisions – leaves the workers defenceless and entirely dependent on individual employers' interpretations of decent living and working conditions.

Needless to say, state treasurer Gladys Berejiklian paints a rosy picture, saying the legislation "provides a range of legislative and regulatory safeguards to protect the integrity of the property titling system while also protecting staff".

Levelling the playing field in national legislation: Legislative reform can be a powerful strategy of empowerment for women and girls and for the safeguarding of their rights.

And in each case, there are slippery-slope dangers that we have to face up to with legislative care and regulative safeguards.

President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage rights spurred a legislative push on such safeguards last week.

The damage to the nation's system of checks and balances, which relies on independent court scrutiny of laws as a safeguard against legislative and executive branch overreaching that disrespects constitutional rights, would be serious.