Sample Sentences for
legislate
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    The council voted to legislate new zoning rules for residential areas.
    legislate = make laws (for)
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    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.  (source)
    legislate = make law
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    Don't you think, lieutenant, that the police have enough to do without trying to legislate our morality and personal lifestyles?†  (source)
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    They understood that they could not legislate the future, for they had no idea what it would hold, or what society would demand for its future liberties.†  (source)
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    But they will immediately come to life again in the society they have legislated for.†  (source)
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    It's a tiresome business, this legislating!†  (source)
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    If we interpret these articles in the Articles of Confederation by the rules objectors have used on the new Constitution, the existing Congress has the power to legislate about everything.†  (source)
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    I stood in the cool air, watching the great irony of it—his indictment for the crime of killing my double, and his sharing of this legislated death with yet another black man.†  (source)
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    But in the same letter he declared that "rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, [I] would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean."†  (source)
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    Evidently, Congress must soon legislate again on the hastily organized Bureau, which had so quickly grown into wide significance and vast possibilities.†  (source)
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    The whiteness of a man's skin or the misguided customs of his land do not exonerate him from hideous deeds, no matter how they have been rationalized and legislated into feigned legitimacy.†  (source)
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    If there existed in America a class of citizens whom the legislating majority sought to deprive of exclusive privileges which they had possessed for ages, and to bring down from an elevated station to the level of the ranks of the multitude, it is probable that the minority would be less ready to comply with its laws.†  (source)
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    His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.†  (source)
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