adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the executive/judicial/legislative branch (= the three main parts of the US government )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
achievement
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The Act of 1944 remains the one substantial legislative achievement of the wartime coalition.
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His only real legislative achievement was creation of the Peace Corps.
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Some even believe that scandals, unless they get out of hand, can serve as an incentive for legislative achievement .
action
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A non-revolutionary socialist, she believed in legislative action .
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There is a shadow here, experts say: Consumer mistrust and legislative action could keep the concept from really taking off.
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The regulation of financial affairs involves inpart legislative action , inpart executive action.
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Party loyalty used to be a powerful force in determining legislative action .
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No legislative action has been taken on either recommendation.
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Aronoff, Riffe, other lawmakers and lobbyists adamantly deny any connection between campaign contributions, honoraria and legislative action .
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But others, such as tax relief for financial service companies, would require legislative action .
acts
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It involves the power to nullify legislative acts on constitutional grounds.
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What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation.
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No fewer than 20 legislative acts will be required, says Mr Otsason.
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Regulations, directives, and decisions have in common that they are binding legislative Acts .
agenda
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It also cleared the way for the Senate to take action on Mr Bush's cabinet nominees and his legislative agenda .
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With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda .
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The chamber's procedural rules mean that the Democrats will now gain control of its legislative agenda .
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To be sure, an inaugural address is not the occasion for a president to list the details of his legislative agenda .
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Also, as the Senate leader, Dole can contrast himself with Clinton with a legislative agenda that reinforces his campaign message.
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However, Clinton has no illusions that the Republican Congress would react favorably to a legislative agenda , McCurry said.
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Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
approval
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However, the Judgments Act is not the only legislative approval for the imposition of interest.
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The plan will require federal administrative or legislative approval .
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The agreement was subject to legislative approval in both countries.
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Each participating State will provide for its legislative approval of defence expenditures.
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To ensure political accountability, they might need executive approval to borrow up to a higher limit, and legislative approval beyond.
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Tim Leslie, R-Roseville, was given final legislative approval by the Senate on a 23-3 vote.
assembly
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There is no legislative assembly , although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980.
assistant
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A lawyer, Alexander went to Washington as legislative assistant to Sen.
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Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
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A former legislative assistant to North Carolina Sen.
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He omitted it on applications to be a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill.
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To his surprise, Alexander recalled, Baker won and tapped him to go to Washington to work as his legislative assistant .
authority
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The example shows that the objector's neat distinction between adjudicative and legislative authorities is mistaken.
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State law bars convicts from holding offices invested with executive or legislative authority .
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Primary legislative authority is exercised through the unicameral Chamber of Deputies, elected every five years.
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He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority .
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Critics say the law upsets the balance of power by delegating legislative authority to the executive branch.
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It is enacted not by the ordinary legislative authority but by some higher and specially empowered body.
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None of this, however, made the Assembly a legislative authority .
body
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The Assembly was not a true legislative body .
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See some of these other legislative bodies , and it makes you appreciate our boys.
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The People's Assembly, the unicameral legislative body , is elected for a five-year term by direct popular vote.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something.
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In our democracy, the making of public policy is usually reserved for duly elected legislative bodies .
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It was the first and biggest step in changing the council from a legislative body to a rubber stamp for his administration.
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There is no elected national legislative body .
branch
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Not withstanding these comforting words, Gerald Ford never succeeded in establishing a productive relationship with the legislative branch .
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The judiciary, not the executive or legislative branches , was the most powerful institution, I decided.
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Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch , attempting to govern without congress rather than with it.
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Another obstacle to congressional effectiveness is the communication gap between the executive and legislative branches .
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Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive, the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
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The legislative branch has just chosen its leadership.
change
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But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
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I hope that he will veer away from that argument and say why legislative change is needed.
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Furthermore, the very frequency of legislative change caused a higher premium to be placed on the flexibility of any computer system.
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Recent legislative changes have not helped.
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Other legislative changes produced their own effects.
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The current business environment gives rise to unparalleled demands for flexible and dynamic management of the business in response to economic or legislative change .
committee
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There are only six permanent legislative committees , whose membership is far too large for any real scrutiny to take place.
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Some early doubts as to the applicability of that privilege before a legislative committee never matured.
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But the State Preservation Board and a legislative committee is trying to change that.
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Half the bills introduced each year are written by lobbyists, who often serve alongside elected lawmakers on special legislative committees .
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Now the legislative committee vows to subject each of those earlybird regulations to even tougher scrutiny.
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Democratic lawmakers are calling for a joint legislative committee to review the conduct of Gov.
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The bills quietly moved through legislative committees and were adopted by both chambers on the final night of the session.
council
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Without a constitution, the powers of the legislative council are unclear.
effort
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That legislative effort is clearly impermissible under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
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But that law was repealed as part of a legislative effort to boost voter registration and participation.
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As we explain below, we find this legislative effort within constitutional bounds even if Congress may not regulate drinking ages directly.
election
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The Democrats in the 1980s have continued to dominate congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative elections .
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Chances are the competitive nature of state legislative elections will increase also.
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As a result legislative elections were expected to take place before the end of January 1993 and presidential elections before mid-February.
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He is currently campaigning for his party's candidates in the May 14 legislative elections .
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All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform.
enactment
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As Weld ought to have told Silber, a grandstanding press conference on Beacon Hill is a long way from legislative enactment .
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At the beginning of the war, patrol and legislative enactments were rigidly enforced.
framework
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It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years.
function
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In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function .
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These may relate to the legislative functions of government.
history
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Yet, despite its lofty aims, the Act had an odd, somewhat shoddy, legislative history .
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This California legislative history explains why patients resorted to a statewide ballot initiative.
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The legislative history of this provision is recorded in Chapter 4.
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This reading derives support from the legislative history of the provision.
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The earlier in the legislative history of the provision the admissible statement is found obviously the greater this task becomes.
intention
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Some of the earliest arguments that legislative intentions count were made to judges in the course of lawsuits.
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Division Two deals with meaning, legislative intention and methods of interpretation.
leader
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Taylor was one of several legislative leaders who joined with Gov.
majority
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If a legislative majority can be created, their leader becomes prime minister.
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But are we all, on that account, at the mercy of legislative majorities ?...
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From 1993 to 1995, a conservative legislative majority produced a second period of cohabitation.
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Steve Peace, which won a legislative majority last year.
measure
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The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure.
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Proponents say Prop. 103 can help guarantee that, along with legislative measures now being considered by California lawmakers.
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The monarch gave formal assent to any legislative measure approved by the two houses.
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By convention, the monarch gives the Royal Assent to all legislative measures approved by Parliament.
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The courts can not declare a legislative measure or an executive action contrary to the provisions of the Constitution.
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The authors propose two ways forward: they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures .
power
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Unitary Because all legislative power stems from Parliament, we have a unitary as opposed to a federal constitution.
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It seeks to put legislative power directly into the hands of the people and circumvent the long-standing institutions of representative government.
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They have also shown themselves reluctant to allow any sub-delegation of judicial or legislative powers .
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A change of executive and legislative power was demanded.
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This hits at the established doctrine that the courts recognise no legal limits to Parliament's legislative power .
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Strictly speaking, there is no acceptable delegation of legislative power ....
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In the present case, however, a pure delegation of legislative power is precisely what we have before us.
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An empirical test of the relative decline of legislative power is especially difficult.
priority
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And, unlike Mr Clinton, he has made his legislative priorities clear.
process
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This requires the intense work of international political theorists in relation to the creation of a legislative process for international law.
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He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process .
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One knows that governments have other considerations to bear in mind, including the legislative process itself.
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Money often dominates the initiative process even more than it does the legislative process.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process .
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We tried to help these people using the legislative process .
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Before the formally dramatic part of the legislative process even begins, almost all the terms of almost all Bills are settled.
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It is justified solely as an adjunct to the legislative process .
programme
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This is the measure of the legislative programme .
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Criticism has also been levelled at the inadequacies of the legislative programme .
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But hampered by the lack of enthusiasm from the White House, the measure failed to complete its legislative programme .
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Nowadays, much the greater part of the legislative programme of the two Houses is taken up by Public Bills.
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This has the great plus of achieving a certain coherence and integrity through the whole of the legislative programme and executive actions.
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Labour Ministers, newly in office, were raring to go with their own legislative programme .
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This year's legislative programme is deliberately light so that not too many Bills are lost when the election is called.
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The Tsar proved wary of replacing Stolypin with a leader committed to any firm legislative programme .
proposal
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Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.
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Then twice last week, McCaughey Ross joined Democrats to push legislative proposals that Pataki opposed.
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Not everyone is happy about the legislative proposal .
reform
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This point can perhaps also be illustrated by some of the recent legislative reforms of company law.
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Perhaps with reason, Brown has regarded most legislative reform proposals as a personal attack on him.
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There is always a risk that legislative reforms which outpace public opinion will be undermined by reaction.
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But what we mean by reform is not the same as legislative reform.
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Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform .
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Clear legislative reform is needed to overcome the inadequacies of the current position.
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Following legislative reforms , it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful.
session
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The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session .
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That bill didn't become law, but Martin already has a new one prepared for the upcoming legislative session .
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After all, the candidate who wins the June 1 runoff may never serve during a legislative session .
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Wilson will try again this legislative session , Spidell said.
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The effort to regulate HMOs hit a snag in the recent legislative session , when Gov.
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In Britain, the opposition party is guaranteed control of a specified amount of time during legislative sessions .
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The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
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One of the ongoing partisan battles over spending led to a typical case of gridlock as the legislative session ended last month.
veto
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This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto .
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This procedure came to be known as the legislative veto .
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The prominence of the legislative veto mechanism in our contemporary political system and its importance to Congress can hardly be overstated.
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Accordingly, over the past five decades, the legislative veto has been placed in nearly 200 statutes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Legislative authority rests with parliament.
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a legislative committee
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The governor has shown in the legislative process.
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The Liberal Party has won control of the legislative assembly.
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The U.S. president has no legislative power, but he can make recommendations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.
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Hence we examine the issues surrounding the development of legislative and other means of intervening in the press.
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The 1996 legislative races turned out to be particularly important because of newly opened seats due to term limits.
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The ruling yesterday is expected to have an impact on six other states that have legislative term limits with lifetime bans.
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Where this is so, Parliament's legislative role is as above described in relation to Acts and United Kingdom delegated legislation.