(n.) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(2) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(3) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(4) Legislation governing adoption has attempted to make the adoptive family the equivalent of a consanguinal one, with varying degrees of success.
(5) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(7) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
(8) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(9) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(10) In addition, special legislation relating to adolescents, particularly legislation or court decisions concerning parental consent for contraception or abortion for a minor, has an important influence on the access that sexually active young people have to services.
(11) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
(12) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(13) Officials say the changes will apply even if a child is born before the new legislation is passed.
(14) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(15) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(16) The two moves were seen as significant because the Electoral Commission had made clear that secondary legislation, which must be passed before the referendum can be held, should be introduced six months before the referendum.
(17) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
(18) Productivity growth makes it possible for well-organised labour movements to apply political pressure to reduce workloads, resulting in consensual legislative strategies on the part of states.
(19) It was listening to the then state legislator Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston when he spoke about America not being red or blue but a place where "you don't have to be rich in order to fulfil your potential".
(20) Last week at a press conference Putin defended the legislation as an appropriate response to the Magnitsky Act, which he dubbed an "anti-Russian" law.
Obstructionist
Definition:
(n.) One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obstructionists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(2) There was a feeling that the mainstream was fighting back against the rightwing obstructionists who were trying to demonize Rabin and undermine the peace process.
(3) "[Its] obstructionist activities threaten the lives and property of those involved in our research, are very dangerous and cannot be forgiven."
(4) It was an obstructionist, anti-woman, anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, anti-middle class, anti-environment, and anti-Obama and anti-everything Republican party of the last eight years that made Donald Trump a reality.” Reid’s counterpart in the House of Representatives, minority leader Nancy Pelosi, took a similar approach in tying congressional Republicans to Trump.
(5) Not for the first time with the Tea Party, there is no plan B. Oppositionist by instinct and obstructionist by intent, their aim, from the debt ceiling to the budget , has always been to block and bluster.
(6) Blaming Democrats for the slow pace at which he has assembled his administration, Trump said: “The Democrats are extremely obstructionist.
(7) I didn’t do it for the attention … I hope everyone understands that it was a genuinely raw moment.” Though he remarked on Rose’s “passion” on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, Rivera, 71, ultimately deemed the interruption “annoying” and “obstructionist”.
(8) He again ridiculed the notion in a speech earlier on Thursday, claiming he was merely filling a vacuum left by an obstructionist Congress.
(9) Labor senator Joe Ludwig has urged Australia’s freedom of information watchdog to investigate the Immigration Department’s handling of an information request, and warned of an “increasingly obstructionist” culture of secrecy in federal government departments.
(10) This prompted an attack on Wednesday from trade minister Andrew Robb on conservationists he said were using “a skink” for “a patsy” in obstructionist legal challenges that were undermining trade talks with India.
(11) "By staking out a position that would accommodate Jews who wish to live in a future Palestinian state, Netanyahu reinforces his image as a pragmatist on the Israeli spectrum, in contrast to the obstructionist right and Bennett in particular.
(12) The Hill points out that in the same survey, 57% of voters blame obstructionist policies by the Republicans in Congress for the current troubles and that percentage includes a lot of swing voters.
(13) The Republicans, wary of being accused of being obstructionist, responded cautiously but their opposition has since hardened.
(14) He did apologise, however, for an ill-judged remark about Alzheimer's sufferers, but created uproar again last month when he likened the opposition to the Nazis because of their obstructionist tactics in parliament.
(15) If Perry can project a relationship with Obama of fruitful contrariness – I don't like you, but I'll deal with you if I have to – he will have hit on an enviable political sweet spot where he can be neither faulted by the hard right for being too much in the president's pocket nor written off as an obstructionist scold with a legislative resumé written largely in the language of "No".
(16) Just in case there was not enough to give parliament something to fight over now, the only surprise was a decision to leave the EU charter of fundamental rights behind , thereby gifting Labour the thread it needed to pull on without looking obstructionist.
(17) The press conference shows Obama's plan for re-election beginning to crystalise as he portrays himself as the champion of job creation and the Republicans as obstructionist champions of the rich.
(18) I think people have a right to ask themselves,” Rubio said, “What’s the point in having Republicans if they’re not going to do what they said when they ran for office?” That seemed to be a sentiment shared by the president, who on Saturday morning tweeted , indefatigably and apparently oblivious to the previous night’s reminder of Senate rules: “The Republican senators must step up to the plate and, after 7 years, vote to Repeal and Replace … “Obamacare is dead and the Democrats are obstructionists, no ideas or votes, only obstruction.
(19) In the angry aftermath of the conference, senior European diplomats accused China of "systematically wrecking the accord" with leaks and obstructionist tactics.
(20) This is not well thought through’, and asking the government to go back to the drawing board.” Schools providing £43.5m of extra support to children due to cuts – poll Read more School leaders did not have to be “obstructionist”, he said, but should be sufficiently confident to stand up to government.