Sentence examples for modern legislative from inspiring English sources

The modern legislative history of banning undesirable opinions from American shores began in 1918, when Congress passed the Anarchist Act, which was designed to keep out people with subversive ideas.

Mr Cameron is also proposing a modern legislative route to provide that newspapers that don't join the new regulation system run the risk of exemplary damages in court actions.

The Elizabethan Poor Laws in England, which sought relief of paupers through care services and workhouses administered at the parish level, provided precedents for many modern legislative responses to poverty.

The Drama To some extent, Mr. Coburn's amendment and the willingness of Mr. Brown and other Democrats to co-sponsor it is political theater and reflects the usual partisan jabbing and jousting that characterizes so much of the modern legislative process.

In 1983, Thatcher's employment secretary Norman Tebbit, who devised the modern legislative ratchet against unions, told TUC general secretary Len Murray that the "prime role" of unions "should be to help improve the performance of their firms which provided their members with jobs".

But because a modern legislative victory requires 60 Senate votes, the bill has failed to pass even though it has long enjoyed majority support.

Implementation of modern quarantine was resource intensive, involved coordination of multiple sectors of society, frequently required new legislative actions or authorities, and was highly dependent on effective communication.

After convening late tonight, legislators held what they said was the shortest session to debate a budget in modern state legislative history, with only five people taking the floor to speak.

It appeared that Congress had acted before a conundrum turned into a full-blown crisis, as common wisdom holds is the standard pattern in modern American legislative politics.

Montesquieu was the first to make the modern division among legislative, executive, and judiciary.

Montesquieu was the first to classify the powers of government into the modern trinity of legislative, executive and judicial.