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UK politics: legislation & law-making
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amendment
assemblyman
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FMQs
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presiding officer
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Examples of legislated

legislated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The base-case scenario represents a situation where legislated emission norms are met at all emission sources.
This further demonstrated the culpability of those who controlled parliament and legislated only in their own interest.
After an initial effort to make the ban universal around 1760, the opposite and more realistic solution of intermarriage was finally legislated in 1765.
Changes in rules that have already been legislated, but are being phased in gradually, are assumed to be fully in place from the start.
Despite opposition from anti-party reformers, parties in most states legislated for types of ballot that preserved party control of the electorate.
Political fund regulation should be legislated before other political reform.
The other five sources considered in this study would compensate for this by abating more than their legislated requirements.
Both acts legislated formal preconditions for hiring children under 12, but not a single lawmaker argued in favour of the abolition of industrial child labour.
If there is a legislated minimum wage, left governments are likely to set the minimum wage closer to the median wage than right governments.
All this is widely considered to be the outcome of the steadily self-reinforcing changes in the electoral rules and systems legislated in 1993.
Under different circumstances, both governments supported professionalisation of the tax administration authorities, de-politicised the agency and legislated taxes that relied on friendly enforcement.
Were the legislated changes substantive, as opposed to procedural?
Even a simple list of policy issues where public purposes have been legislated exceeds the scope of this paper.
For the first time, well-structured proposals for setting up control and assessment functions were legislated.
The wrongdoers have legislated in a way that precludes their own moral complaint, for there is no grounding for their complaint within that legislation.
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