How To Use Legislate In A Sentence

The Government said that it will legislate to keep the parties in the room, and then chuck another $1 million at the Department of Labour, and set up a semi-autonomous, not totally autonomous, unit.
The book's title alludes to an anti-Semitic law legislated by Frederick II of Prussia that every Jew at marriage had to purchase a surplus of goods from the royal china factory.
Otherwise, the Commonwealth could always legislate to say certain categories of State legislation are prohibited.
The FFs surely had a distrust for foreign entanglements that was not evident in delegating to Congress the right to legislate domestically (hence the 2/3rds requirement for treaties). The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.

Its main driver, though, seems to be the attempt to legislate away the problems of a post-colonial country steeped in racism of all kinds.
Proposition 22, which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman and adopted by California voters on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% in favor, was hijacked along with the California Legislative Branch by the Tyrannical Justices of the California Supreme Court which legislated from the bench in direct violation of the California Constitution and managed to null the will of the people and declare Proposition 22 unconstitutional. California becomes second U.S. state to legalize gay marriage : Law is Cool
The position is that the articles have legislated a particular set of sanctions, namely, that a transfer which does not comply with the article is void.
This Bush-appointed SCOTUS is going to contribute to our downfall — they have already legislated from the bench, and will continue to favor corporations and business over the people. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 1, 2010
Her legislated Church was in place to secure outward conformity, and she firmly resisted any changes which might threaten this aim.
It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
Their basic presumption is that there is one correct way to believe (usually the one they share), and they presume that anyone not sharing that belief is aberrant, and legislate accordingly. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?
The CEO gave board a lot of motivation to legislate new laws.
They promised to legislate against cigarette advertising.
Prohibition—the legislated imposition of teetotalism on the unwilling—was an idea that had been lurking beneath the earnest pieties of the temperance movement and was transformed in the late 1840s into a rallying cry. LAST CALL
Other forms of delegated legislation include the power of ministers to legislate by Order in Council and for local authorities to make by-laws.
My opinion, of course, is that we oughtn't to legislate morality.
It's great when you've got a squad of players available for work every week, but some injuries you can't legislate for.
The government had the power to legislate by emergency decree independently of Parliament.
The greatest enemy is government, which has historically legislated privileges or restrictions based on gender.
The CEO gave board a lot of motivation to legislate new laws.
Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works! Archive 2009-04-26
Shouldn't we bite the bullet now and legislate, as many are suggesting?
The Commonwealth, in the Judiciary Act provisions, has also legislated in relation to legal practitioners in federal jurisdiction.
And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
Congress has legislated a new minimum wage for workers.
If it was, then the country could be graduality taken over by a religious majority that takes the biblical permissions to own slaves seriously, and they would then “legislate the morality” of owning other people. Should male legislators decide if abortion is legal?
The Scottish executive plans to legislate to change the law, extending rights of adoption.
Most member countries have already legislated against excessive overtime.
What he does believe is that antisodomy laws should remain on the books when they have been legislated into place and not be overturned by appellate courts. Mind Meld Make-Up Test: Orson Scott Card on Young Adult Fiction
The argument also fails to recognise that Parliament can legislate in breach of the rules of international law.
Only Parliament has the power to legislate on constitutional matters.
That is what we mean when we say the States cannot legislate about these matters in federal jurisdiction.
It's never wise to try to legislate against people's irrational beliefs. LORD PRESTIMION
Only a few governments, such as New Zealand's, have legislated specifically for sustainable development.
Despite an acute water scarcity in many parts of India, the Government has yet to legislate effectively to conserve groundwater resources.
There is no doubt that the Parliament could so legislate, constitutional protections aside.
There seems to be a fanaticism on the part of those who legislate, for how come there is no variation of punishment?
`If we learned anything from history, we learned you can't legislate how creatures ought to behave. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
For me there's an ambiguous element, ie it's possible that the AMs mean they want to see Wales legislate independently within devolved areas. Fifth Column?
They tried to legislate for every possibility when they were thinking of the picnic.
Others were made by hitching suffixes to nouns, or by groping for roots, e. g., to deputize, to locate, to legislate, to infract, to compromit and to happify. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
In accordance with Dickson's analysis in Rio, I must first classify the legislation either as a valid provincial Act or a colourable attempt to legislate on matters restricted to Parliament.
Using this model, the Court determined that Article 10 was violated when Austria legislated a public monopoly on broadcasting.
Were the legislature of the view that a reliable document bearing the signature of its author would be sufficient to operate as a testamentary instrument, it could have so legislated.
Welcoming the government's decision, local human rights activists said there is no urgency to legislate the proposed law.
They promised to legislate to protect people's right to privacy.
But also the moralist forgets that morality cannot be imposed or legislated or begotten by an act of will.
They have legislated to expand trial by jury, devolve powers to local councils and ban the police from entering universities.
In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
Does this mean that there will be a change to the treaties (through an IGC, which is the only way to do it) and vetoes will be reintroduced in a number of areas that are now legislated on according to qualified majority voting? Questions to ask
Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
There is no doubt that the Parliament could so legislate, constitutional protections aside.
In particular they should not be used to legislate.
Unsurprisingly, provinces can't legislate on matters of federal competence and nor can Parliament legislate on matters of provincial competence.
Politicians are at the fore of the lawbreakers even though they are required to protect it most because they legislate the various rules and regulations designed to ensure social justice.
At present, the list of colleges where doctors can qualify to practice is legislated under the Health Insurance Act.
You can legislate for situations but not for emotions.
It is dictated, legislated on all levels, with the activities of the human, the natural and the divine all comprehensively proscribed and prescribed by this latter-day god of wisdom, emulating his prototype in "Enki and the World Order". Archive 2006-02-01
Also most enlightening, is to see how local champions of "Green" living and public transportation, who advocate and even legislate with every fiber of their being to get vehicles such as large white GMC pickups off the road, live and work in the same manner as they demand of their constituents. Smell test? (Jack Bog's Blog)
Congress has legislated a new minimum wage for workers.
For safety reasons the city authorities should legislate to make it compulsory that a paying passenger should also be given a helmet.
The court arguably has implemented reforms that would have been better legislated by Congress, and without the balance that a Congressional debate would have facilitated.
Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament can, if it chooses, legislate contrary to fundamental principles of human rights.
To begin with, a major responsibility of the ILO is to legislate international labour standards. "If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice"
On this basis, Herron announced that the government would legislate to authorise construction of the bridge.
The government has promised to legislate against discrimination.
The Disabled Persons Act 1986 recommends, but does not legislate, that local authorities should define need and provide for it.
Congress possesses no power, under the Constitution, to legislate upon the subject of slavery in the States where it does or may exist, or to exclude any State from admission into the Union, because its Constitution does or does not recognize the institution of slavery as a part of its social system; and expressly pretermitting any expression of opinion upon the power of Congress to establish or prohibit slavery in any Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
The government has been urged to legislate against discrimination in the workplace.
The government has been urged to legislate against discrimination in the workplace.
"You just can't legislate for pace like that," you'll often hear them conclude, as a pair of lightning slow centre halves trail in the wake of a pacy frontman.
In baseball, players used to legislate brushback pitches and there was a code of conduct.
The state legislates, maybe even occasionally provides for the individual communities within it, but not in their particularity.
The light going on didn't wake me up though, as I had wisely legislated for it by drinking far too much wine.
Congress has legislated a new minimum wage for workers.
The drop in dry cargo tonnage was disappointing but you can't legislate for bad harvests.
They probably can't legislate manufacture, nor anything beyond the first sale after interstate or overseas goods movement.
It has legislated to change fundamental constitutional principles.
In Australia, the situation differs significantly as several jurisdictions have already legislated to prohibit the removal, storage and use of sperm from a man who is dying or has died.
Most member countries have already legislated against excessive overtime.
A lifestyle revolution, rather than a Marxist one, is required, and that is something that cannot be legislated for.
villein" was real property and in the same case as land: also that when Parliament came to legislate so as to make lands in the American The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
It's never wise to try to legislate against people's irrational beliefs. LORD PRESTIMION
I suspect Walleyes Unlimited is preparing for the potential listing of sauger as threatened or endangered, alhtough I don't really see the advantage of having an erroneous, legislated designation of native should listing occur. Trout Unlimited Vs. Montana Walleyes
In the last weekly Downing Street meeting for parliamentary private secretaries, the cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin, was lampooned for telling ministerial aides: "If this goes well we'll have nothing to legislate on in two years' time. David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
Totalitarian dictatorships and religious hierocracies become so paranoid about their continuity, that every minute aspect of life is legislated for and internal revolution only becomes possible when external disturbances disrupt the structure.
In the case of hunted animals the government had to legislate to protect them.
It would be obviously improper for the Justices to legislate specific rules about what is private versus what is public.
They promised to legislate against cigarette advertising.
So in the first instance, I say to members opposite that, instead of turning this into a race issue, they should acknowledge that this Parliament legislated different laws.
Beauty serves as the “symbol” of morality (Â§59, passim), in that a judgment of beauty “legislates for itself” rather than being “subjected to a heteronomy of laws of experience” (Â§59, 353); relatedly, feelings of pleasure in the beautiful are analogous to moral consciousness Kant's Aesthetics and Teleology
The Government, having legislated one piece of nonsense, has to legislate another to fix it.
Would a Regional Parliament for the North East feel the need to legislate about the welfare of cuddies instead of horses and cattle?
“Judicial tyranny”, OTOH, would be if the judiciary struck down too many laws, or if it “legislated from the bench”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional
We naturally welcome Labour's existing promise to repeal Section 28 and to legislate against discrimination in the workplace.
Parliament has legislated that they are not be treated as a class but as individuals.
The slipperiness of the term tends to make for bad laws, legislated in haste, that infringe civil liberties.
We naturally welcome Labour's existing promise to repeal Section 28 and to legislate against discrimination in the workplace.
`Our Sages know man cannot legislate behaviour, so we must accomplish by good sense and custom what nature and law will A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
A vital step in the right direction is to acknowledge that our human sexuality is perplexing at best and cannot be legislated by a government, regulated by rules, or explicated by a religion. Aaron Anson: Regulating Human Sexuality
Although the position is not legislated at the moment, it has been appointed by the Chief of the Defence Force.
He said a safety audit of the bridge design was carried out in the planning stage but this was a public structure and no one could legislate for every event.
The problem with conceding territory and allowing the other side to play in front of you is that it cannot legislate for crazy errors.
It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.
The Government has decided to legislate, regulate and, as usual, strangulate.
Some powerful music corporations have tried to outlaw MP3, to block hardware that uses it, shut down websites that utilise it, and to legislate against translating other formats into it.
As far as former miner Terry Regan is concerned, you cannot legislate for human instinct when someone is breaking into your home.
Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
But I think this is all about a clash of personalities, and you can't legislate for that.
They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure.
Brebner says the number of last-minute goals has been unacceptable but says it is hard to legislate for individual mistakes.
With much of the preliminary work already done, Ministers were more amenable to finding the time to legislate.
As for the replicas, Mr Sykes may be right when he says you can't legislate for idiots who cause problems.
There may be indeed be little that politicians can do to actively legislate for civic virtue but there are enormous harms that politicians could stop doing.
Every time something goes wrong within a public service there is a strong desire to find out why, to legislate and prevent the problem arising again.
Publishers didn't make a serious attempt, by and large, to outlaw Xerox machines, or to try to legislate the inclusion of special capabilities that recognize and refuse to copy pages from published works into copiers.
Maybe you can legislate for a tolerant society, but a change of attitudes has to happen for it to become an accepting society?
Indeed Parliament has legislated on matters affecting every aspect of our lives.
There are a number of ways that waste prevention can be encouraged and legislated for.
In the new Parliament, we will legislate to enforce and enhance these rights.
You can't legislate against bad luck!
In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
`If we learned anything from history, we learned you can't legislate how creatures ought to behave. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The National Government explicitly declined to legislate in order to overturn that precedent.
We must legislate to control these drugs.
In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
The Duma's ability to legislate much-needed reforms was constrained by a second chamber, the State Council, which was a much more conservative body.
That's because their job is to apply the law, not legislate it.
Firstly he legislated to restrict the Commission's power to arbitrate and, in doing so, its capacity to conciliate.
Liberal trade critic Scott Brison stressed that the bill to legislate the Colombian trade pact is still to be scrutinized by the Commons trade committee." where the LibroCons hold a majority Archive 2009-09-01
We legislate them for ourselves, and also for others, when we demand respect or civility or forbearance from them.
There are those who will tell you, of course, that you cannot enforce equality or legislate for human nature.
Although Living Wills have been legislated through federal law, it has been left to each state to develop requirements for interpreting and implementing these documents.
It appears this is quite acceptable to an establishment that was too fastidious to allow clever and dedicated men without a blot on their characters, who happened to be hereditary peers, to legislate for us.
After the last Supreme court decision – reverse discrimination – the justices he supported openly legislated from the bench. Kyl raises past Sotomayor statements
`Our Sages know man cannot legislate behaviour, so we must accomplish by good sense and custom what nature and law will A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The federal government has the exclusive right to legislate copyright law.
ACOSTA: Top GOP leaders want the president to rule out what they call judicial activists, judges who conservatives say would legislate from the bench. CNN Transcript May 26, 2009
`If we learned anything from history, we learned you can't legislate how creatures ought to behave. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Firms fail - no one can legislate away investor risk.
The position is that the articles have legislated a particular set of sanctions, namely, that a transfer which does not comply with the article is void.
See also Glenn Reynolds' comments on Congress' lack of Constitutional authority to legislate in this area.
The natural response to that public admission of arrogance, violence and stupidity is to counter it with: ‘If we have to legislate to stop immature twerps like you then we will.’
Whatever inscription designates, it conjures sheer anteriority," they suggest; "it does not deliver us to any immediacy of reference, [or] to any historical narrative that presumes to encode such, but to mnemonic programs that appear to precede and legislate these Seeing Is Reading
Firstly he legislated to restrict the Commission's power to arbitrate and, in doing so, its capacity to conciliate.
Was it reasonable to have expected the council to have foreseen such fearsome weather and legislated for it?
Separation of church and state in the US should dictate that it should leave marriage where it belongs – between people and/or their clergies, not something to be legislated. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
Every European country legislated against vagrancy, often insisting that vagabonds should be returned to their parish of origin, and if necessary whipped or branded to deter them from trying again.
There is no indication that Irish women's organizations acknowledged the efforts made in the 1935 Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act to legislate on a gender-neutral basis.
If we encourage our citizens to travel across Europe we should be prepared to legislate for their safety.
What I am saying is that if, for example, the State legislates abolishment of trial by jury, the Commonwealth will not allow to this, but that is inconsistent with the Commonwealth law.
The government has been forced to recall the Dail earlier than they expected because of the need to legislate for the nationalisation of Anglo-Irish. Labour Press Office - Press Release Summaries
Apparently unchastened by the unhappy fate of previous attempts to legislate in this field, the Commission had once again tabled legislation seeking to liberalise the provision of services in European ports.
The legislated products referred to include fresh, canned and frozen fruit and vegetables, dried fruit, groundnuts, grains, as well as rooibos and honeybush tea.
That principle places limitations on the power of Parliament to legislate to abrogate or undermine those fundamental rules.
The National Pollutant Release Inventory is a legislated, nation-wide, publicly-accessible inventory of pollutants released, disposed of and recycled by facilities in Canada.
She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty.
It's never wise to try to legislate against people's irrational beliefs. LORD PRESTIMION
Trying to legislate a policy for something that doesn't yet exist would run up against all sorts of problems.
Indeed Parliament has legislated on matters affecting every aspect of our lives.
NASA research has pretty much been legislated into irrelevance in facilitating progress in the commercial sector. Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
`Our Sages know man cannot legislate behaviour, so we must accomplish by good sense and custom what nature and law will A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito legislated from the bench in this case and others, but Republicans are in support of their actions because it changes law to meet their political position. Sotomayor confirmed for Supreme Court
We legislate them for ourselves, and also for others, when we demand respect or civility or forbearance from them.
Shouldn't we bite the bullet now and legislate, as many are suggesting?
But something about having to legislate those rules of fair play rankles me.
FWB: Why would the list of areas where Congress can legislate, which is in art. The Volokh Conspiracy » Yet Another Reason Not To Sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Yet the odds are against the measure as legislated policy.
The Tariff Reformers advocated protective indirect taxes to raise such revenues: the Liberals legislated for expanded direct taxes.
It could not have legislated otherwise without doing violence to another great principle of our institutions -- the imprescriptible right of equality of the several States. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
We cannot legislate how people spend their free time
In accordance with Dickson's analysis in Rio, I must first classify the legislation either as a valid provincial Act or a colourable attempt to legislate on matters restricted to Parliament.
The Commonwealth legislates on who does or does not get a visa to enter Australia.
CO2 has just been judicially legislated from a perfectly natural element of our atmosphere necessary for life on Earth to a "pollutant. Balkinization
They are applicable because this is an area that the Commonwealth is entitled to legislate in, clearly, and has legislated in.
Since circumstances constantly change, laws cannot be legislated to cover every possible case.
They promised to legislate to protect people's right to privacy.
But even as a hero of the campaign to end American involvement in Vietnam, he was never a natural radical or a peacenik; his background and his neat haircut legislated against that.
The record industry seems to think they can legislate the jinni back into the bottle, rather than adapting to new realities. Internet Radio
The government had the power to legislate by emergency decree independently of Parliament.
Liberal activist wanting to legislate from the bench rather than a true constitutionist! New names being added to short list for high court vacancy
Only Parliament has the power to legislate on constitutional matters.
What MPs have done is legislate a tax rort for themselves.
Who should legislate on the Welsh language - Westminster where only a small crue understand the context from among hundreds of members or here where, whatever our opinion may be, at least the context is understood? No Brainer
My opinion, of course, is that we oughtn't to legislate morality.
You can't afford to leave it alone, yet you also can't legislated directly to prevent your population porking out.
Because the various countries' historical development background is different, accounting gradually formed two big basic about legislate accounting and non-legislate accounting models.
To legislate for artistic imagination is an intellectual conceit that for sheer gall takes the breath away.
Other forms of delegated legislation include the power of ministers to legislate by Order in Council and for local authorities to make by-laws.
There's no way we can legislate for that but we we must be on guard.
Furthermore, the council was a purely advisory body and had no powers to legislate.
The government had the power to legislate by emergency decree independently of Parliament.
If the government were to legislate a redeployment of the 'woodchip' industry into the 'hemp industry, within a few years the HEMPchip industry will be churning out high quality pulp and what's left of the old growth could stay alive WN.com - Business News
Fortunately, politicians were not content with merely deploring such practices; they legislated.
The stores are reacting to the more than 30 states that already legislate such restrictions or have laws pending.
He is attempting to pack the courts with zealots and activists who are not impartial and who will legislate from the bench.
I could list many more places where it is fair to expect smokers to consider others but you can not legislate for people's rudeness or lack of consideration.
We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations, returning power from militants to ordinary union members.

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