Sentence examples for legislatures that allow from inspiring English sources

I suspect there's also "rural" or backward attitudes at play in the state legislatures that allow DV as a "pre-existing" condition.

The tobacco industry had asked the court to strike down a law enacted by the British Columbia legislature that allowed the province to start its damages suit against the industry last year.

Tom Ritter, a Democrat who was speaker of the State House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999, said Mr. Rowland, soon after taking office, adopted an alternately tough and conciliatory style with the Democratic-led Legislature that allowed him to share credit for popular policies and disperse blame for less welcome measures, like tax increases.

For example, one is an alternative high school and another has an arrangement with the state legislature that allows young people who complete ChalleNGe and pass the GED exam to receive a state high school diploma.

There has been a push lately among state legislatures for laws that allow police to confiscate the weapons of those deemed a danger to themselves or others.

Together, these three organizations have lobbied state legislatures to create programs that allow low- and middle-income students to use public tax dollars to attend private schools, including parochial schools.

The disagreement between these two poles has focused on DeVos, who has played a key role in pushing state legislatures to pass laws that allow parents to use public dollars for private and religious schools.

In the late 1980s, for example, more than half of America's state legislatures adopted "other constituency" statutes that allow directors to consider the interests of all their stakeholders, not just shareholders.

Prosecutors in pot-friendly jurisdictions have enormous power to offer relief for people previously convicted of marijuana offenses in their jurisdiction, but many aren't using it ― either because they don't want to, they don't have the resources for the process or because state legislatures haven't passed laws that allow relief for now-legal acts.

When Branstad was asked about the exemptions at the bill signing, he cited constitutional provisions that allow the legislature, the judiciary and the governor's office to remain exempt.

The shield that the legislature is hiding behind -- ironically called the Legislative Open Records Act -- was passed in the post-Watergate era in response to public pressure, but it contains a boatload of loopholes that allow the legislature itself to decide what records to keep secret.