Sentence examples for the legislative system from inspiring English sources

This piece of legislation worked its way up through the legislative system.

"This piece of legislation worked its way up through the legislative system," Minky Worden, HRW's Director of Global Initiatives, told me in an interview (listen to the full interview below).

This was partly addressed in one study that compared countries on the basis of how legislation was implemented in practice, rather than the actual legislation in place.w8 Regardless of the legislative system, the procedures for contact with relatives of newly deceased people are likely to be important determinants in whether consent is given.

"It shows how 'blind' the legal system can be, and how contradictions in the legislative system persist," Gyurkó added.

But it does mean that in times of economic crisis, it is very difficult to respond quickly (at least via the legislative system).

If many countries rely on the principle of sortition in the criminal justice system, why not rely on it in the legislative system?

A close collaboration among the public health, law enforcement, the judicial branch and other stakeholders is necessary to ensure that the biological risk management framework is viewed holis-tically in the context of the national legislative system.

That's where we learned about nominating procedures, the Electoral College, the separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches, the bicameral legislative system and much that has been relegated to the file labeled "arcana".

The inability to pass what is in fact a quite moderate bill, displays the broken reality of the American legislative system in which a super majority, as opposed to a simple majority, is needed to pass nearly any bill.

During the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive it became clear that the original legislative system has to be completed by further central "directives," three of them in the aspect "pollutants" and these with special reference to the substance group of "dioxins": 1.

The 2010 decision came as the U.S. legislative system had evolved into a near parliamentary system of party-line voting and expansive party networks extending seamlessly from the Capitol to party headquarters to lobbying firms to outside political groups.