passverb(APPROVE)

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UK politics: legislation & law-making
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abrogate
abrogation
amendment
assemblyman
constitutionally
enact
First Minister's Questions
FMQs
gold plate
Green Paper
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PMQs
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presiding officer
promulgate
White Paper
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Examples of legislating

legislating

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

Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
Specifically, it has failed to play an active and independent role in legislating public policies and exercising fiscal control over the national budget.
The problems and pitfalls of developing and legislating health policy are taken up in the next two papers.
Where language policies for multilingualism work at the state level, it is probably mostly in cases of recognizing and legislating already established situations.
They pointed out that even while legislating higher standards for teacher education, 25 states have created alternative, less demanding routes to certification.
More importantly, the existence of multiple veto points may establish the preconditions for a particularistic style of legislating.
As such, we should have no fear that by legislating virtue we shall diminish its existence among those who already possess it.
The judge who conceives of herself as legislating rarely says so in an opinion.
The alternative of legislating that pension fund fiduciaries are obliged to act ' prudently ' in managing investments.
I have always held that legislating language is a tricky business, one that's likely to backfire, or misfire.
If advocates of the politics of presence are right, however, that amounts to legislating partially in ignorance.
Or government may sanction ineffective sectoral governance by threatening to act itself or legislating in ways that transform the existing form of regulation.
We should fear only that by legislating virtue we shall fail to encourage its cultivation by those who do not already enjoy the dispositional states within which it resides.
Ministers have lower incentives to produce detailed laws in informationally intense issue areas where the opportunity cost of legislating, in terms of forgone constituency and government service, is greater.
All these factors may have led the legislating elite in the direction of a permissive outlook and somewhat less inequality, as reflected in the progressive fines.
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