Sentence examples for modern legislation from inspiring English sources

The one obstacle that has proved insurmountable is modern legislation.

Modern legislation sometimes establishes flexible rates, such as 2 percent above the (fluctuating) official discount rate of the country.

"Freemen" like to think you can opt out of modern legislation by sending an affidavit to the Queen.

England enacted several important reform laws (including those on theft, sexual offenses, and homicide), as well as modern legislation on imprisonment, probation, suspended sentences, and community service.

In matters of mitigation and justification, the continental law tends to be more explicit and articulate than the Anglo-American law, although modern legislation in countries adhering to the latter has reduced these differences.

The goal of modern legislation has been to dissipate ghettos, but enforcement of the civil rights laws passed in the 1960s is hampered by some of the same social prejudices that brought the first ghettos into being.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, says: "The government has rightly promised new legislation to tackle modern slavery – but they should urgently review the operation of the domestic visitor visa".

We welcome the government's plans to tackle modern-day slavery through new legislation to be introduced next week (Report, 12 December).

Mandeville's involved "the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician" — in modern terms, legislation, regulation and taxation.

There was a lag, for example, between the Pecora hearings in the 1933 and some of the modern securities legislation that followed.

The designation of the categories of claims entitled to share in such distribution, the order of distribution, and the regulation of the procedures for their establishment form an important ingredient of modern bankruptcy legislation.