Sentence examples for the legislatively from inspiring English sources
adverb
By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
- The base was legislatively closed: basically they passed a law saying to do it.
But unlike the legislatively lazy McCarthy, McCarran performed the heavy lifting of shepherding major anti-Communist laws through Congress.
Although the Supreme Court found the legislatively prescribed standard to be unobjectionable as an abstract proposition and starting principle, it noted "the problem inheres in the absence of specific standards to ensure its equal application".
On Nov. 27, pursuant to the legislatively enacted "contest" provisions, Gore filed a complaint in Leon County Circuit Court contesting the certification on the grounds that the results certified by the Canvassing Commission included "a number of illegal votes" and failed to include "a number of legal votes sufficient to change or place in doubt the result of the election".
The legislatively enforced emission limits can only be fulfilled by the optimization of the exhaust gas system.
Although he still has to work within the legislatively mandated embargo, Obama has ample latitude and can build political momentum towards ending the anachronistic policy.
Blockburger is the default rule, unless the legislatively intends to depart; for example, Continuing Criminal Enterprise (CCE) may be punished separately from its predicates, as can conspiracy.
The plaintiffs' lawyers argued that by changing the limits legislatively, the city had violated voters' constitutional rights to free speech and due process.
"Also, the UK may be behind the times legislatively, but the biggest medical cannabis company in the world, GW Pharma, is British, and a lot of the key research is being done at British universities.
But as a Democrat, I knew that we had little power to stand up to the NRA legislatively in the House.
After one final attempt by the rebels to defeat the government legislatively (which failed by three votes), the resolution to strike the royal commission passed the legislature unanimously the next day.
In recent years, he said, "it's been the reverse, where they forced things on the unions legislatively," like raising the retirement age and cutting benefits for new workers.
