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Legislative in sentence

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Since 1997, 55-61% of voters have voted for democratic candidates in Legislative Council elections.
Using legislative language apparently drafted by Citi’s own lobbyists, the firm successfully pressed for the repeal of some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
But, as Michael K. Young, President of Texas A&M University, has explained, because the US Constitution was fashioned when various states, which already had their own laws, agreed to create a political union, it functions like a set of ground rules for negotiations among states, as well as among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
That is true even if one takes into consideration the record-low voter turnout in the recent legislative elections.
Contained in the Appeals Act is the first clear legislative definition of sovereignty.
Turkey has committed itself to a vast legislative effort to improve human rights, freedom of thought, treatment of prisoners, and civilian control over the military.
The case is largely political – namely, the urgency of a Republican Congress to deliver a legislative victory for a Republican president.
Discretionary fiscal policy is often clumsy in responding to recession, given the usual lags in legislative and administrative implementation and the politics of pork and special interests surrounding spending and tax decisions.
While recent legislative proposals like the Cyber Information Security and Protection Act (CISPA) may help to improve the situation, their impact remains to be seen.
Although he distances himself from formal policy-making within the executive branch, Ozawa in fact masterminds the entire legislative process, including the budget and appropriations.
Otherwise, they will have no major accomplishment to show for an entire year during which they have controlled the legislative and executive branches of government.
Should Republicans secure the legislative victory they desire, the entire country – with the exception, probably, of the wealthiest few – will lose.
Third, the allure of rejoining Europe after years of isolation, together with the European Union’s commitment to enlargement, provided a gravitational pull – and a legislative template – that helped policymakers justify and implement difficult reforms.
He has not brought the matter before the South African Parliament, which ratified the original decision to join the ICC and should participate in any decision to withdraw; and he has not given the South African public an opportunity to debate the issue or influence an eventual legislative decision.
In fact, since 1985, fifteen Latin American presidents – most without legislative majorities – have not finished their term.
But the new president, whoever he may be, would still lack a legislative majority.
Since the new government could also fall unless it retains a legislative majority, parliamentary systems have important “coalition requiring” and “coalition sustaining” incentives.
In these circumstances, the model functions as classic presidentialism (even if it does not produce legislative majorities).
If, however, no candidate receives 50.1% of the popular vote, the elected legislature chooses the president, who thus would begin his term with a legislative majority.
Its estimates of how congressional Republicans’ legislative proposals will affect the country are deeply informed, nonpartisan, and made in good faith.
Nonetheless, establishing commitments for governments that extend beyond electoral cycles can imbue legislative agendas with a longer-term perspective, as they reduce partisan policy turnover.
On the political front, the US faces a near-complete legislative stalemate, with no sign of a compromise that could lead to the optimal policy mix: short-term support to boost effective demand and long-term structural reforms and fiscal consolidation.
So far, Trump has failed to deliver any major legislative policy achievements.
This is not to say that there is no democratic process: the elected European Parliament is a serious legislative body, and its vetting of European commissioners is often more thorough than personnel selection at the national level.
Third, the boundary between constitutional and legislative matters is peculiar in the EU.
This would require explicitly changing the balance between constitutional and legislative matters, so that principles are preserved, but policies can be responsive to politics.
The European Commission also put forward a set of legislative proposals to establish the single supervisory mechanism and confer key supervisory tasks on the ECB.
But while these legislative interventions all target digital platforms, they often fail to account for at least six ways in which today’s disinformation and propaganda differ from yesterday’s.
In response, their party’s MPs brought legislative activity to a halt for days.
Turnbull’s government will need every vote it can get to pass its legislative program, and in a number of cases will simply have to rely on opposition Labor support.
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