verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
government
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When governments refuse to legislate , as in Britain, sport's organisers dream up complicated schemes to prevent touting.
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What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition?
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Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
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By Enabling Laws the Reich stag empowered the government to legislate in the name of the Reich stag.
parliament
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But, except by private or hybrid Bills, Parliament does not legislate for individual cases.
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Indeed Parliament has legislated on matters affecting every aspect of our lives.
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In the new Parliament , we will legislate to enforce and enhance these rights.
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Political considerations may make it unlikely, even inconceivable that Parliament might legislate in a particular manner.
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In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
power
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Brussels has no power to legislate for us that we did not give it.
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Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment do not limit state power to legislate on economic matters. 29.
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In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congress failed to legislate effective handgun controls.
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Should parliament legislate against experiments on animals?
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States are legislating stricter automobile safety measures for young children.
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The government was under a lot of public pressure to legislate on equal pay.
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Thomas Jefferson said that Britain had no right to legislate for its American colonies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
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Governments will have to legislate eventually.
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The alternative, and it might be effective, would be to legislate for two-tier supervisory boards.
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This is legislating science at its most pernicious.
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We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations, returning power from militants to ordinary union members.
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What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition?