Sentence examples for prior legislation from inspiring English sources

The decision of whether to cover prior legislation in the ACORN funding ban is left to individual Appropriations subcommittees, according to Hing.

No prior legislation authorizing chaplains had ever mandated that chaplains had to be of a particular religion, or even that they had to be ordained ministers.

In it, the Court ruled that no one with African ancestry could be a citizen of the United States and voided prior legislation that had blocked the expansion of slavery into parts of the country.

Penalties were established in this section in more formative way compared with prior legislation.

Lord Pannick, a barrister and crossbencher Prior to legislation in 1907, a man could not marry his deceased wife's sister.

Carlos Arze, from the Agrarian and Labour Development Studies Centre (CEDLA), shares this sentiment with Campanini, believing the new law removes ambiguities in prior Bolivian legislation.

Some 26,000 citations of prior church legislation were listed, including approximately 8,400 from the Decretum Gratiani ("Decree of Gratian"), a 12th-century collection; 1,200 from general councils of the church; 4,000 from papal legislation; 11,200 from the norms of Roman congregations (the administrative bodies of the Roman Curia); and 800 from liturgical books.

A reviewer here asks whether Hayek assumes that the point of law is to protect property rights conceived as existing prior to legislation.

In the UK, farmed and free ranging deer were almost certainly exposed to BSE infected MBM in proprietary feeds prior to legislation banning its inclusion.

But if it fails to recognise the case for prior scrutiny, the legislation will remain flawed.

My office reviewed the legislation prior to passage and I can assure you that your characterisation of it is wrong.