legislate

The owners know they can’t legislate smarts into their contract, so they’re trying the next best thing — tying the hands of their own big spenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

If bondholders are going to legislate good borrower behavior via debt contracts, why stop at transparency?

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

“You can’t legislate that, you can’t mandate it, but I think if you ask people, ‘Could we be better?’—I think you won’t get a better result unless you make the ask.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

The 'Game On' report, external urges the government to legislate to require local authorities and housing associations to remove unnecessary 'no ball games' signs, "to make public spaces more usable for children's play."

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

And the failure of Prohibition would provide the nation with a powerful lesson in the pitfalls of attempting to legislate morality.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The General Assembly legislates for a narrowly politically divided state of some 8.7 million people and considers thousands of bills in sessions scheduled for at most 60 days in even-numbered years, less in odd-numbered years.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

First, it legislates more than mere time, place and manner restrictions.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023

One of Ms Forbes' rivals for the leadership, Humza Yousaf, is a Muslim but he insists his faith does not dictate how he legislates.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2023

This division of responsibility—Congress legislates policy goals and agencies implement them effectively—is the foundation of functional government.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2020

Hence follows the third practical principle of the Will, as supreme condition of its agreement with universal practical Reason—the idea of the Will of every rational being as a Will that legislates universally.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

It was legislated to continue for at least three years, through 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Traditional sports betting, through companies like DraftKings and FanDuel, is regulated and legislated by U.S. states, and there are states where Americans still cannot legally bet on sports.

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026

Labour won the general election of May 1997, and almost immediately legislated.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

The White House’s plan “may represent a policy opening” that “could evolve into a legislated, progressive, and secure universal system,” said Wealth Equity Lab’s Ghilarducci in the statement.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The Irish government has warned that it is considering legislating in the absence of an EU decision.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

This week marks the eighth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act and allowed states to begin legislating sports betting.

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026

WSJ Analysis The U.S. plan rests on a series of promises by Russia, including legislating in its parliament a policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The government is currently legislating to strengthen the right of employees across the UK to request working from home and says that it intends to make it harder for employers to turn down requests.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

I accepted the new position at the hospital; Barack continued teaching and legislating.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama