Legislation

//ˌlɛd͡ʒɪˈsleɪʃən//

"Legislation" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Fortune 500 companies were the hardest hit by recent legislation.

This group passes out information on such things as travel and health care, and encourages its members to vote on issues that affect this age group such as legislation regulating the insurance industry, medical care and housing.

Existing legislation does not take diversity of races into account.

A poll shows that an overwhelming majority is in favor of the legislation.

The government has the power of legislation.

The argument continues about the "white-collar exemption" that exempts specific white-collar workers from the "eight hours per day, 40 hours per week" working hours, as fixed by labour standards legislation.

It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.

Our surveys indicate that the public would support the proposed legislation.

Rightists often dislike regulatory legislation.

The state court effected unconstitutional legislation without the federal government noticing.

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There is a lack of legislation about human cloning.

The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness.

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