Sentence examples for over legislate from inspiring English sources

"I believe the laws currently in place are good and that we need to be careful not to over legislate and put controls on importing homeless animals," she said.

Mr Rusbridger continued: "The blunt truth about our industry is that we have been under regulated and over legislated.

Smith is simply another stooge in the Blairite criminal justice tradition, which has obsessed over legislating against problems that have causes that legislation cannot resolve.

What I will take away from Oldstone-Moore's book is an argument not stated outright in the text but nevertheless contained within it: that beards are something people like to chatter about and legislate over as a sort of displacement activity when they find it too awkward or confusing to address the issues that actually matter.

"Let's let legislators legislate again," Boehner said, summarizing a year's worth of complaints over the Democrats' use of procedural maneuvers like the so-called "Demon Pass".

In 2003 this was taken a step further when the European Aviation Safety Agency EASAA) was established as the central EU regulator, taking over responsibility for legislating airworthiness and environmental regulation from the national authorities.

"They have to trust citizens more, and trust them to make mistakes over their own lives and stop rushing to regulate and legislate over every part of our lives.

In hearings and floor debate, Vermont legislators referred often to the idea that they could not legislate over the safety of the plant, which is on the Connecticut River near the Massachusetts border, and would have to find other reasons to close it.

But league officials have struggled over how to legislate the matter.

Others, however, began to question whether Parliament did have lawful power to legislate over the colonies.

If no rights from the 1886 agreement devolve onto Tamil Nadu, can Kerala not exercise its "sovereign" right to legislate over a dam and a river contained within its territorial limits?