Sentence examples for we legislated from inspiring English sources

The international development secretary, Justine Greening, reiterated the government's commitment to the target in parliament five days after the vote, saying: "We legislated for it, and we stand by that".

When the European Court of Justice called into question the legal basis upon which we require communication service providers to retain data, and when providers based overseas questioned the application of our laws on interception to them, we legislated to put both questions beyond doubt.

We continue to work with local authorities, law enforcement agencies, children's charities and other third sector organisations, as well as Parliament, to tackle child sexual exploitation and we legislated in 2011 to protect those in or at risk of being forced into a marriage.

I wish that it could have been a different answer but the US made little progress with disability inclusion and accessibility until we legislated it and began to use our legal system to litigate.

It is repugnant, in principle, to me – the suggestion that we legislate against fast food.

We recognize that all things entail some measure of risk as well as benefit, and we legislate regulations accordingly.

Since we don't have the benefit of a crystal ball, that shouldn't be how we legislate.

How do we legislate that?" A maxim that Streb uses with the dancers is "Harder, faster, sooner, higher".

For example, could we legislate 30 minutes of daily physical activity for all employees in paid time?

We must err on the side of caution when we legislate, especially when we are dealing with the health and welfare of our future generations.

In the west nowadays we say that anything done by consenting adults in private should not affect the rest of their lives; we legislate on this basis too.