Sentence examples for problematic legislation from inspiring English sources

Buried in a law intended to promote transparent government is a tool for those who wish to push bills through Congress, and a new problem for those who rely on the Senate to slow or halt problematic legislation.

This problematic legislation risks discouraging an ever more precious weapon in holding police accountable when the government gives them powers to treat peaceful demonstrators as a threat not only to order, but to the state itself.

They worried that his public rebuke would fuel nationalist sentiments here and complicate the Belgian government's efforts to unwind the problematic legislation, originally conceived as a way to prosecute war criminals from countries lacking an independent or well-developed justice system.

There is at least widespread agreement among U.K. MPs of the need to replace RIPA — the problematic legislation that currently oversees surveillance activity, and which dates back to 2000.

Republican incumbents won't have problematic legislation to defend or questions to answer about what further compromises they'll make.

Last week the European commission signed up to the German blueprint, while unveiling problematic EU legislation making the European Central Bank the policeman of the eurozone banking sector.

THE prospects are even more problematic for legislation creating a new prescription drug benefit in the Medicare program, another priority for the Democrats.

He founded several parts of the proposed legislation problematic, at the least.

On Friday, Commissioner Adam Silver said that he found the legislation problematic but that there was not currently any discussion among the league's owners to move the game.

In the meanwhile the extent of law breaches by U.K. domestic intelligence agencies operating under a problematic patchwork of legislation and, prior to Snowden's whistleblowing, without parliamentary scrutiny in a climate of near perfect secrecy, is still being determined.

Unfortunately, the House voted 222-201 to pass this problematic piece of legislation, mostly along party lines with 10 Republicans crossing over to oppose the bill and three Democrats voting to support the bill.