Sentence examples for were legislative from inspiring English sources
noun
That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
As recently as 1980, only 17percentt of Southern state legislators were Republicans, and there were legislative houses in three separate Southern states -- Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana -- without a single Republican member.
There were legislative changes, too.
One minute they were legislative losers, squabbling and scrambling for the off-ramps.
Also opposed were legislative aides, who channeled the objections of Congressional Democratic leaders to a panel they could not control.
Buried in the existing law against scalping were legislative findings that ticket prices were "a matter of public interest" and that regulations were necessary "for the purpose of safeguarding the public against fraud, extortion, exorbitant rates and similar abuses".
But that there were legislative hearings on the bill showed more responsiveness to the issue than there had been in the past, as California brothers Kenneth and Michael Schmier could attest.
Mr. Pollack's specialty is legislative affairs.
Their long-range goal was legislative independence.
The hang-up appears to be legislative.
The real issue is legislative inaction.
Before that, he was legislative director for Representative Ted Weiss.
