Sentence examples for were legislated from inspiring English sources
The phrase "were legislated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to laws or regulations that have been formally enacted or passed by a legislative body. Example: "The new environmental regulations were legislated to protect endangered species."
verb
To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
- If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.
"We were legislated to be separate and yet our daily lives were so intertwined; there was this peculiar schizophrenic thing going on," says Ms. Gien.
"Play streets", the precursors to present-day "home zones", were legislated for as early as the mid-20th century, but their value to children and community life was overlooked as car use took prominence from the 1960s onwards.
Before modern techniques for disposing of hazardous wastes were legislated and put into practice, the wastes were generally disposed of or stored in surface piles, lagoons, ponds, or unlined landfills.
Like millions of other aging baby boomers, I first began putting money into a tax-deferred retirement account a few years after they were legislated into existence in the late 1970s.
Nonetheless, it should be remarked that from the early 1980s into the mid-1990s when plural citizenship and blue card were legislated, the share of remittances was still considerably high, and even higher than that in Mexico.
However the much lower levels of hydrazine found in the present study are consistent with the reductions in maximum levels of hydrazine residues permitted in MH, which were legislated subsequent to the original study of Liu et al. Also our method used shorter times for complexation of hydrazine residues with PFB.
To an extent, McCain, Warner and Graham were legislating in the dark.
We can learn for whom the House Republican members were legislating as their core constituency.
The tactic was legislated out of existence.
But bullying cannot be legislated away.
Turnbull insisted it would also be legislated.
