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  • I understand that your Church was instrumental in that legislation being passed.†   (source)
  • The closure was supposed to happen at the end of October, meaning October 31, but some unidentified crafter of the federal legislation erred in thinking October only had thirty days.†   (source)
  • Her purpose is to dictate to them material she wants to see introduced into legislation and sent as a letter to the Times, all the while protesting that she's merely a woman who doesn't understand these matters as a man would.†   (source)
  • They've all agreed to push legislation to make your TruYou profile your automatic path to registration.†   (source)
  • In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, Congress passed legislation to prevent employers from exploiting the nation's most vulnerable workers.†   (source)
  • In the past, whites took land by force; now they secured it by legislation.†   (source)
  • There was also a short article on rioting that the reporter claimed was "the direct result of escalating tensions between the West and East government on new birth legislation."†   (source)
  • La Purisima was one of very few ranches in that part of Mexico retaining the full complement of six square leagues of land allotted by the colonizing legislation of eighteen twenty-four and the owner Don Hector Rocha y Villareal was one of the few hacendados who actually lived on the land he claimed, land which had been in his family for one hundred and seventy years.†   (source)
  • Particularly since the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, the telltale signs of societal progress had finally taken root among black Americans.†   (source)
  • As Professor Ross Miller notes in his book American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago: "Subsequent 'antifire' legislation disproportionately penalized the working poor who owned their own wooden homes.†   (source)
  • In the bronze tower we used the rhetoric of aggrieved minorities to prevent legislation that would hurt our business.†   (source)
  • In 1993, Senator Tom Harkin wanted to help Bangladeshi girls laboring in sweatshops, so he introduced legislation that would have banned imports made by workers under the age of fourteen.†   (source)
  • Thoroughbred racing had a lengthy and celebrated history in America, but at the height of the temperance and antigambling reform movements in the first decade of the century, a series of race-fixing scandals involving bookmakers inspired a wave of legislation outlawing wagering.†   (source)
  • Jerene was a student, working toward her Ph.D. in education, and Dempsey had found a poorly paying, uninspiring job working long hours in the basement of the state capital, on creditor/debtor legislation, so money was tighter than ever for the Mortensons.†   (source)
  • Some senators argued against it because they wanted comprehensive immigration reform, not just piecemeal legislation.†   (source)
  • On March 13 Willis urged his colleagues to move with "utmost haste" in creating legislation to honor "the all but unbelievable valor" of the Marines in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • This is Bill 135…… No other democratic country has such legislation.†   (source)
  • Several of the vaccines, however, would be subjected to a whole new gamut of rigorous testing procedures if Congress passed the new legislation introduced by Merton Gains before he became deputy secretary of state.†   (source)
  • The first execution in this state in sixty-nine years …. in the only first world country to still have death penalty legislation on the books.†   (source)
  • I will support wholeheartedly any legislation that outlaws it.†   (source)
  • Bishop had lobbied for economic democracy and introduced the country's first legislation for sexual equality.†   (source)
  • This "Council," as Adams called it, would be given "free and independent judgment upon all acts of legislation that it may be able to check and correct the errors of the others."†   (source)
  • In 1996, Mrs. Dickinson, now a Florida homeschool lobbyist, wrote the legislation that allows homeschoolers to participate in extracurricular activities.†   (source)
  • The fifty-one-year-old LBJ, as he is known, was perhaps the most successful and powerful Senate majority leader in U.S. history, adept at building partnerships and fortifying his party faithful to pass important legislation.†   (source)
  • Now you see how important it is that you go on the air and tell people that it isn't true that Directive 10-289 is destroying industry, that it's a sound piece of legislation devised for everybody's good, and that if they'll just be patient a little longer, things will improve and prosperity will return.†   (source)
  • Dennis Baron wrote that the hearings reiterated the two arguments that have informed such discussions for two centuries: an insistence that English is the glue holding an ethnically diverse America together, and a fear that official-language legislation masks racial discrimination—in this case against Hispanic Americans.†   (source)
  • As always, he was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.†   (source)
  • However, he instructed Webster to tell Tappan that if Congress voted the appropriate funds to charter a ship and supplies, he would sign the legislation.†   (source)
  • CECILIA MUÃ'OZ is vice president of the Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza.†   (source)
  • He'd managed to block some legislation or other favorable to the extreme left wing.†   (source)
  • Though it took a special act of legislation to allow Justinian to marry one of such lowly stature, Theodora proved herself a worthy empress, commissioning two royal spies to sneak into China and steal silkworms so that she could drape herself in the manner in which she felt she could become accustomed.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the administration, legislation, and judicial decisions of the national government will be more wise and judicious than those of individual States.†   (source)
  • Excellent—the more impediments to legislation the better.†   (source)
  • Mainly, though, it was because of the urgings of a wealthy little old lady who may someday leave the Institute a fortune: Mrs. Lydia Bames, former president of the Friends of the Dolphin Society, the citizen group that had lobbied for the initial dolphin legislation years ago.†   (source)
  • And they don't have the fruits-of-the-earth legislation you have where you are.†   (source)
  • I know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very important.†   (source)
  • Part of our colonial policy which enabled the United States to enact legislation for the government of backward people.†   (source)
  • But I want to really discuss the main proposals of this legislation.†   (source)
  • For politics and legislation are not matters for inflexible principles or unattainable ideals.†   (source)
  • Speaking of legislation, have you all learned anything about that yet?†   (source)
  • IBP also benefited enormously from the legislation.†   (source)
  • The proposed legislation, of which Walter had no prior knowledge, went nowhere.†   (source)
  • He's probably been busy passing legislation or something like that."†   (source)
  • The popular outrage inspired by The Jungle led Congress to enact food safety legislation in 1906.†   (source)
  • In 1978 Congress passed the first federal legislation to regulate franchising.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the 1987 legislation, IBP paid no corporate taxes in Nebraska for the next decade.†   (source)
  • They were able to muster only fifty-five votes, and the legislation was tabled yet again.†   (source)
  • "The senator's views on sexual legislation are well known.†   (source)
  • Senators will be familiar with the objectives and principles of legislation.†   (source)
  • After he was murdered, the ranks fell apart and the legislation passed.†   (source)
  • Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion.†   (source)
  • During his time as Senate majority leader he was masterful at passing difficult legislation.†   (source)
  • My son understood this, exposed it, and initiated legislation to block the alignment.†   (source)
  • Trade, taxes, and the militia are the important subjects of federal legislation.†   (source)
  • Legislation for States or communities hurts all confederate governments.†   (source)
  • This restraint on bad legislation will influence the character of our governments.†   (source)
  • Legislation for states is the parent of anarchy.†   (source)
  • Number 20: United Netherlands: Failure of Legislation for States†   (source)
  • This check on legislation can be both injurious and beneficial.†   (source)
  • These differences will be the subject of federal legislation.†   (source)
  • They made laws and proposed legislation to the people.†   (source)
  • The latter type of legislation is important to the welfare of every country.†   (source)
  • This turnover creates a change of opinions and a change of legislation.†   (source)
  • Can a federal congressman learn the greater knowledge needed for federal legislation in two years?†   (source)
  • Number 16: Legislation for States—Civil War Inevitable†   (source)
  • Some legislation takes immediate effect.†   (source)
  • Legislation for States Ruined Confederation†   (source)
  • Our government might not even be able to enforce the legislation.†   (source)
  • Irregular and changing legislation is not particularly evil but the people hate it.†   (source)
  • The executive should have the power to veto legislation.†   (source)
  • Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion.†   (source)
  • For Democrats and Southerners, this bill had become "must" legislation.†   (source)
  • Someone once estimated that the All Thing deals with about a hundred active pieces of Hegemony legislation per day, and during my months spent screwed into the sensorium I missed none of them.†   (source)
  • He simply skipped question four (In your opinion, did wand legislation contribute to, or lead to better control of, goblin riots of the eighteenth century?†   (source)
  • Scientists, lawyers, ethicists, and policymakers debated the issues: some called for legislation that would make it illegal for doctors to take patients' cells or commercialize them without consent and the disclosure of potential profits; others argued that doing so would create a logistical nightmare that would put an end to medical progress.†   (source)
  • Hermione read aloud: 'In a surprise move last night the Ministry of Magic passed new legislation giving itself an unprecedented level of control at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.†   (source)
  • In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included a provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare.†   (source)
  • He was an avid pilot, and the new legislation also provided tax deductions for ConAgra's corporate jets.†   (source)
  • Theno's support for tough food safety legislation in California made him unpopular with the state's restaurant association.†   (source)
  • The idea behind the legislation, enacted in 1919, was to provide speedy medical care and a steady income to workers injured on the job.†   (source)
  • Republicans in Congress failed to enact not only that bill, but also similar legislation introduced in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.†   (source)
  • In the aftermath of the Jack in the Box outbreak, the Clinton administration backed legislation to provide the USDA with the authority to demand meat recalls and impose civil fines on meatpackers.†   (source)
  • For better or worse, legislation passed by Congress has played a far more important role in shaping the economic history of the postwar era than any free market forces.†   (source)
  • About sixty large food-service companies — including Jack in the Box, Wendy's, Chevy's, and Red Lobster — have backed congressional legislation that would essentially eliminate the federal minimum wage by allowing states to disregard it.†   (source)
  • Congressman Cass Ballenger, a Republican from North Carolina, introduced legislation that would require OSHA to spend at least half of its budget on "consultation" with businesses, instead of enforcement.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, a small group of ConAgra executives soon gathered on a Saturday morning at Harper's house, sat around his kitchen table, and came up with the basis for legislation that rewrote Nebraska's tax code.†   (source)
  • That year the fast food industry was lobbying Congress and the White House to pass new legislation — known as the "McDonald's bill" — that would allow employers to pay sixteen— and seventeen-year-old kids wages 20 percent lower than the minimum wage.†   (source)
  • In November of 1999, Congressman Howard Coble, a conservative Republican from North Carolina, introduced legislation that would make franchisors obey the same fundamental business principles as other American companies.†   (source)
  • When it confirmed the accuracy of the book, Roosevelt called for legislation requiring mandatory federal inspection of all meat sold through interstate commerce, accurate labeling and dating of canned meat products, and a fee-based regulatory system that made meatpackers pay the cost of cleaning up their own industry.†   (source)
  • The core of the legislation states that no person has the right to harass or humiliate another person.†   (source)
  • Or are you thinking that through lobbying and legislation, speechmaking and storytelling, we can extricate ourselves from our foolish ways?†   (source)
  • Fact: If his daughter hadn't died from a vaccine two years ago, henever would have spearheaded legislation to heighten scrutiny of new vaccines.†   (source)
  • For all our skepticism about laws, this one, like the landmark 2000 legislation that required annual reports about human trafficking abroad, would have a real if incremental impact around the world.†   (source)
  • He had labored steadily, revising laws, writing legislation to eliminate injustices and set the foundation for a "well-ordered" republican government.†   (source)
  • "This is now in general the great art of legislation at this place," he continued, venting his frustration.†   (source)
  • Almost a decade had elapsed since he first introduced the legislation and he was finally able to bring it to a vote.†   (source)
  • On May 1, 1963, the government enacted legislation designed "to break the back" of Umkhonto, as Vorster put it.†   (source)
  • The ongoing racial unrest down in Birmingham and the pitched battles over civil rights legislation here in Washington have left him in a foul mood.†   (source)
  • At this time when the Parliament of Canada will be considering legislation designed to enhance the value and dignity of Canadian citizenship, these Orders will have precisely the opposite effect.†   (source)
  • In 2001, Durbin had introduced legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants who had been in the United States for at least five years and were attending college.†   (source)
  • Although he was prepared to allow the black majority to vote and create legislation, he wanted to retain a minority veto.†   (source)
  • That Franklin electrified him with his rod and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislation, and war.†   (source)
  • He pushed Congress to "enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities open to the public."†   (source)
  • If Adams found any relief or pleasure in his duties, it was approving, on April 24, legislation that appropriated $5,900 to "purchase such books as may be necessary" for a new Library of Congress.†   (source)
  • But the hard facts were that fifty years of nonviolence had brought the African people nothing but more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.†   (source)
  • He is versed in foreign policy and domestic legislation and can give a tutorial on the subtleties of backroom wheeling and dealing.†   (source)
  • Those "most adjacent to the seat of legislation will always possess advantages over others," said Madison, who feared that the South and its agrarian way of life would suffer were the capital to remain in the North.†   (source)
  • I thanked the U.S. Congress for its anti-apartheid legislation and said the new South Africa hoped to live up to the values that created the two chambers before which I spoke.†   (source)
  • Meetings were banned; printing presses were seized; and legislation was rushed through Parliament permitting the police to detain charged prisoners for twelve days without bail.†   (source)
  • Our complaint, I said, was not that we were poor by comparison with the people in the rest of Africa, but that we were poor by comparison with the whites in our country, and that we were prevented by legislation from righting that imbalance.†   (source)
  • He was also a persuasivespokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters' roll in the Cape.†   (source)
  • At the instigation of the Communist Party and the Indian Congress, the convention passed a resolution for a one-day general strike, known as Freedom Day, on May 1, calling for the abolition of the pass laws and all discriminatory legislation.†   (source)
  • But continual change, even if it is good legislation, is inconsistent with every rule of prudence and every hope of success.†   (source)
  • Every power that restrains the excess of law making is more likely to do good than harm, because it favors greater stability in legislation.†   (source)
  • As a member of the Amphictyonic confederacy, Sparta fully exercised her government and her legislation.†   (source)
  • Cases that come from the laws of the United States passed through the constitutional power of legislation.†   (source)
  • However, good legislation may be prevented and bad things might happen because the Congress is unable to act.†   (source)
  • Historically, the negative effects of legislation for States increase as it is used in more areas of the government.†   (source)
  • There are two types of legislation.†   (source)
  • Other legislation is part of a chain of measures that have a gradual and, perhaps, unobserved operation.†   (source)
  • Commerce, taxation, and the militia are the areas of federal legislation that require local knowledge.†   (source)
  • But even with these changes, federal legislation will always be more difficult than the legislative business of a single State.†   (source)
  • Regulating these Dangers Facing the United States: Domestic: Number 10 conflicting interests is the principal task of modern legislation.†   (source)
  • A sovereignty over sovereigns, a government over governments, legislation for communities—rather than a government over individuals is illogical in theory.†   (source)
  • They say it only has authority over the member States in their collective capacities [legislation for States], without reaching the individual citizens.†   (source)
  • Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts contradict the social compact and every principle of sound legislation.†   (source)
  • Problem: Legislation for States†   (source)
  • The emperor can veto legislation.†   (source)
  • The United States Congress may pass legislation that gives the decision of cases arising from a specific law to the federal courts alone, if it seems expedient.†   (source)
  • Legislation for States: Dangerous†   (source)
  • Slowness Blocks Bad Legislation†   (source)
  • The basic defect of the Confederation is the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES in their COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES rather than for the INDIVIDUALS living in the States.†   (source)
  • Legislation for States operates on the States in their collective capacities; it encourages delinquencies by the States, which can only be collected, if at all, by war and violence.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, where such strict limitations [legislation for States rather than individuals] have been tried, disorder and stupid consequences followed.†   (source)
  • Some men object to the new Constitution because it doesn't include the principle [legislation for States] that ruined the old, a principle that can only be enforced with the violence of the sword.†   (source)
  • Judiciary Enforces Legislation†   (source)
  • Even in confederacies with members smaller than our States, the principle of legislation for sovereign states, enforced by the military, has never worked.†   (source)
  • Restraint on Bad Legislation†   (source)
  • The emperor has exclusive right to propose and veto legislation, name ambassadors, confer titles, fill vacant electorates, found universities, grant privileges not injurious to the states, receive and send public revenues, and watch over the public safety.†   (source)
  • The three cases of exclusive federal jurisdiction may be exemplified by the following: The next-to-the-last clause of article one, section eight, says Congress will exercise "exclusive legislation" over the capital district.†   (source)
  • Block against Bad Legislation†   (source)
  • To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.†   (source)
  • Federal Legislation†   (source)
  • The change was embodied in a decision which was taken to protest against apartheid legislation by peaceful, but unlawful, demonstrations against certain laws.†   (source)
  • Finally, this legislation will insure that properly registered individuals are not prohibited from voting.†   (source)
  • He even told me he figures he has maybe six months to get through what he considers a very important piece of legislation, the new criminal rehabilitation act … I will admit that he did sound kind of paranoid when he talked about it.†   (source)
  • But after listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America.†   (source)
  • As far as Africans are concerned, both these avenues of advancement are deliberately curtailed by legislation.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this Nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.†   (source)
  • In 1836 and 1837, Arkansas and Michigan, and in 1845 and 1846, Florida and Iowa, were admitted through legislation which coupled them together.†   (source)
  • I have had prepared a more comprehensive analysis of the legislation which I had intended to transmit to the clerk tomorrow, but which I will submit to the clerks tonight.†   (source)
  • In part this power, and the ability it required in those Senators who sought to harness it, sprang from the growing influence of Federal legislation in domestic affairs.†   (source)
  • Pass laws, which to the Africans are among the most hated bits of legislation in South Africa, render any African liable to police surveillance at any time.†   (source)
  • Even the success of legislation in which he is interested depends in part on the extent to which his support of his party's programs has won him the assistance of his party's leaders.†   (source)
  • Basically, we fight against two features which are the hallmarks of African life in South Africa and which are entrenched by legislation which we seek to have repealed.†   (source)
  • But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.†   (source)
  • The veteran Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, who had defeated Abe Lincoln for the Senate, had drafted much of the major reconstruction legislation which Johnson vetoed, and had voted to censure Johnson upon Stanton's removal.†   (source)
  • Overcoming strong opposition, compromising when she had to, Solis worked with political and business leaders to secure passage of pioneering legislation requiring that all communi-ties be treated fairly with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws.†   (source)
  • All lawful modes of expressing opposition to this principle had been closed by legislation, and we were placed in a position in which we had either to accept a permanent state of inferiority, or to defy the Government.†   (source)
  • Our complaint is not that we are poor by comparison with people in other countries, but that we are poor by comparison with the white people in our own country, and that we are prevented by legislation from altering this imbalance.†   (source)
  • The temporary and unstable two-thirds majority which had enabled the Senate Radical Republicans on several occasions to enact legislation over the President's veto was, they knew, insufficiently reliable for an impeachment conviction.†   (source)
  • When Woodrow Wilson, sorrowfully determined upon a policy of "armed neutrality" in early 1917, appeared before a tense joint session of Congress to request legislation authorizing him to arm American merchant ships, the American public gave its immediate approval.†   (source)
  • In the same speech, heannounced that he would send to Congress legislation outlawing discrimination in all public facilities, legislation that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed after his death.†   (source)
  • Its key features were five in number: (1) California was to be admitted as a free (non-slaveholding) state; (2) New Mexico and Utah were to be organized as territories without legislation either for or against slavery, thus running directly contrary to the hotly debated Wilmot Proviso which was intended to prohibit slavery in the new territories; (3) Texas was to be compensated for some territory to be ceded to New Mexico; (4) the slave trade would be abolished in the District of…†   (source)
  • Henry Clay, who should have known, said compromise was the cement that held the Union together:All legislation …. is founded upon the principle of mutual concession…… Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, "I never will compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.†   (source)
  • Politics, as John Morley has acutely observed, "is a field where action is one long second best, and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders"; and legislation, under the democratic way of life and the Federal system of Government, requires compromise between the desires of each individual and group and those around them.†   (source)
  • In introducing his work, Benton states that "the bare enumeration of the measures of which he was the author and the prime promoter, would be almost a history of Congress Legislation…… The long list is known throughout the length and breadth of the land—repeated with the familiarity of household words …. and studied by the little boys whofeel an honorable ambition beginning to stir within their bosoms …."†   (source)
  • We, therefore, propose immediately to introduce legislation directed to that end.†   (source)
  • I did not mention the Indians in the first Author's Note largely because I did not want to confuse readers unnecessarily, but the existence of this minority is now much better known throughout the world because their position has become so desperate under apartheid legislation.†   (source)
  • The history they taught him had had few battles in it but, instead, a profusion of detail about humane legislation and recent industrial change.†   (source)
  • No person should try, or be allowed to get rich out of the program, and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.†   (source)
  • It beats legislation.†   (source)
  • Our legislation favours divorce—our social customs don't."†   (source)
  • I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation.†   (source)
  • This last compromise was a hasty bit of legislation, vague and uncertain in outline.†   (source)
  • Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and why not Legislation's?†   (source)
  • No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America.†   (source)
  • I said, "O; and legislation? do they take any part in that?"†   (source)
  • The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.†   (source)
  • But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.†   (source)
  • Too much importance is attributed to legislation, too little to manners.†   (source)
  • Aristocracies are infinitely more expert in the science of legislation than democracies ever can be.†   (source)
  • Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.†   (source)
  • An extraordinary mutability has, by this means, been introduced into their legislation.†   (source)
  • *n Nothing can be more aristocratic than this system of legislation.†   (source)
  • Next to its habits, the thing which a nation is least apt to change is its civil legislation.†   (source)
  • 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'†   (source)
  • It was a story that Philip was not unaccustomed to: the husband had been a soldier in India; the legislation forced upon that country by the prudery of the English public had given a free run to the most distressing of all diseases; the innocent suffered.†   (source)
  • The latter was describing in eloquent words how, in consequence of recent legislation, he was obliged to sell a beautiful estate in the N. province, not because he wanted ready money—in fact, he was obliged to sell it at half its value.†   (source)
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