(a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
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.
Synod
Definition:
(n.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
(n.) An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
(n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The book is being launched this weekend, in the run-up to the church’s General Synod in York next month.
(2) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(3) Part of the problem is procedural: that the will of the church’s parliament, the General Synod, is easily thwarted by a tiny minority of its members.
(4) He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn.
(5) In a context where there is no discipline within the church for its current teaching, or very limited discipline, we are being asked to have a conversation that focuses on us, rather than focusing on what God’s word teaches.” Another conservative evangelical group, Christian Concern, planned to distribute “pledge cards” to synod members, aimed at upholding traditional teaching on marriage.
(6) It could, he said, be put to the vote when the synod meets in York in July.
(7) In the final report of an extraordinary synod on the family which has exposed deep divides in the church hierarchy, there is no mention – as there had been in a draft version – of the “gifts and qualities” gay people can offer.
(8) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(9) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) As the conservative MP who speaks for the synod in parliament said: "I think the great danger for the church following the vote is that it will be seen increasingly as just like any other sect."
(12) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(13) Synod members will be urged to refrain from disclosing the content of discussions on social media.
(14) The working group is due to meet again next month, and new proposals on female bishops will be put to the General Synod in July.
(15) His plea comes a day after the synod approved plans to fast-track legislation that could see the first female bishop chosen by the end of the year.
(16) But his proudest moment came in October, 1980 when he led the bishops in Rome for the Synod to Subiaco, where St Benedict began his monastic life.
(17) Synod member Christina Rees, who has campaigned for women in the church for 25 years, said women should eventually make up a high proportion of senior roles.
(18) In an internal memo the secretary general of the synod, William Fittall, urged the church to pursue an "urgent and radical" new strategy in order to see women in the episcopate by 2015.
(19) The Church of England said that, in all, 72.6% of synod members had backed the measure in the crucial vote, which came at the end of more than 100 passionate and moving speeches.
(20) It took two months of Waite's negotiating skills to gain their release, which Runcie was able to announce at a dramatic moment in the middle of the 1981 February general synod.