Sentence examples for through legislature from inspiring English sources

Tells about the Social Security Disability Bill forced through legislature by American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which together represented more than 16 million voters.

By Richard Harris The New Yorker, July 9 , 1966P. 34 ANNALS OF LEGISLATION about Medicare tells about the Social Security Disability Bill forced through legislature by American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which together represented more than 16 million voters.

The debate over RFRA laws and the urgency with which they are being ushered through legislatures shows that the country has not yet reached a consensus about gay marriage, despite the speed at which it's been legalized, Hong said.

Some of the toughest bills in the nation aimed at illegal immigrants are making their way through legislatures in the South.

But Mr Portman and Ms Ginsburg seem to agree that social change is best enacted through legislatures rather than courts.Josh Barro takes a different view.

By contrast, he felt that majorities, through legislatures, should be empowered to make all decisions not specifically addressed in the Constitution.

The expectation is that by lining up powerful corporate interests, the governments will be able to ram this new "free trade" pact through legislatures on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

The series of work stoppages and protests known as the Fight for $15 movement set off a wave of minimum wage increases around the country – either through legislatures or ballot initiatives.

Limits on the legal right to abortion are sweeping through legislatures across the United States, from moves to require women seeking abortion to undergo intrusive ultrasounds, to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, America's largest family planning provider.

Instead, its success has come most explicitly through legislatures and the ballot box.

There are already twenty state constitutional amendments moving through legislatures that could wind up on the ballot in 2010 or 2012.