Sentence examples for legislative standard from inspiring English sources

Such legislation, the report said, "would have the advantage of providing a positive legislative standard defining a limit at which corporative accretions in size and power would be halted in order to prevent monopoly".

"In less than two years we will have one European legislative standard and a balance between data protection and the right to use the data," he said when asked about when to expect a European-wide data regulation.

And while Mr. Taylor said that the stimulus would be "a big help in the near-term," he echoed the sentiment, voiced by politicians on both sides of the aisle, that Congress could not solve the state's long-term problems, like declining tax revenue, and a difficult legislative standard — a two-thirds majority — for raising taxes or passing budgets.

Overall, the quality of European bottled water is considered good, with the exception of a few that have concentrations in Mn, B, Ba, As, Fe, Ni, Se, and Al, which are definitely above the estimated respective Upper Threshold Limit and, thus, exceed the corresponding legislative standard value defined by European Union directives.

5 South Africa's Domestic Violence Act (116 of 1998) includes a definition of domestic violence so comprehensive it is a legislative standard bearer internationally.

Where the coroner is unable to make a finding as to intent because of the high legislative standard for determining this or because of cultural or religious sensitivities, the Australian Bureau of Statistics undertakes further investigation of the death using information on the national coronial information system and codes the death as a suicide where there is evidence of intent.

(The idea of legislative standards for blogs strikes me as simultaneously illiberal and fatuously impractical).

The police report was damning:... the pool fence did not comply with legislative standards as it was not a self-latching gate... the premises were not safe or secure for young children placed under foster care.

But many Republicans say the Club for Growth is holding members to impossible legislative standards in a city where their party remains a minority, and that it contributes to the gridlock that many Americans find toxic.

Photographs were handed round of rooms floor-to-ceiling with unopened packages ordered by the gullible (usually elderly) victims.The magazine publishers say that most advertising lives in a grey area between truth and lies, and that legislative standards should be designed for the normally sceptical, not the vulnerable.

As an example, she cited French traders moving computer servers to London just to gain a vital "nanosecond" in trading time, versus what in fact was, by national or European legislative standards, the relatively speedy adoption of European moves to regulate crediting agencies.