Sentence examples for use of legislative from inspiring English sources

Observers may be reminded of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's use of legislative tactics to hamstring Barack Obama's Presidency.

He said on Friday that because Mr. Berlusconi was "constantly under pressure and under attack, the temptation may arise in our rank and file to make an instrumental use of legislative power".

Mr. Morsi's directive represented his first use of legislative powers he had claimed for himself this month, wresting broad authority from a council of military leaders who had ruled Egypt since the fall of Mr. Mubarak.

The pre-2006 RepubliCongressress utterly failed in its basic oversight duties, especially with respect to the war in Iraq, and its unparalleled use of legislative "earmarks" to crank out pork-barrel spending was an especially blatant instance of special-interest corruption.

For the use of "legislative" in this scientific sense, cf. Young 1992: 111.

Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart [1992] UKHL 3, is a landmark decision of the House of Lords on the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation.

But Mr Morsi had promised to make light use of the legislative powers that he wields in the absence of a parliament.

The demonstration today was called by Venezuela's largest opposition party, the centrist Democratic Action, to protest the president's use of special legislative powers to decree far-reaching economic changes without consultation.

The first study compared the regulation of animal biotechnology in the Netherlands and Switzerland to illustrate the use of alternative legislative strategies when addressing complex issuesc.

Maybe, in the spirit of the man who has downsized the papacy, members of Congress should exhibit some humility and concentrate on making productive use of the "legislative powers" vested in them by the Constitution.

With help from friends and other educated blind people, he was granted the use of the legislative chamber of the West Virginia House of Delegates to present an exhibition of "music, [scholarly] recitation, and class drill" with a delegation including his brother James and blind educator Susan Ridenour.