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legislative
adjective as in lawmaking
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Today’s Republicans strip power from governors in lame-duck legislative sessions.
The left-wing Working Families Party endorsed challengers in four legislative primaries, and all four of them were in the lead as of Wednesday morning.
Although scant polling is available for state legislative races, it’s reasonable to assume down-ballot races will follow the top of the ticket … which could allow Democrats to break the Republican supermajority, if not win a majority of their own.
Many states had finished their normal legislative session at the time of Floyd’s death and are planning to address police accountability next year.
So what we’ve seen now—and this is mostly legislative efforts in the US—is bills that mandate accuracy and nondiscrimination audits for facial-recognition systems.
But Lomax can heave a small sigh of relief, at least for now: Legislative reform to the 1033 program will not happen in 2014.
The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.
Vice President Jindal: “Here is a good, intelligent, and reasonable plan for legislative action.”
What new legislative attacks on the basic rights and opportunities of women might they put on the table?
Rather than not pass a legislative fix, Congress in fact does so.
It was strenuously opposed by all possible means, governmental, legislative, and literary.
Again, common law decisions are not binding on the courts that make them like statutes or legislative commands.
Clearly, it was no mere question of taxation but the larger question of legislative independence that now confronted Americans.
Perpetual charters are infrequently granted, and some of the older ones have been limited by legislative or judicial action.
The first of these was not of a nature to call for, or perhaps admit of, direct and specific legislative interference.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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