adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the executive/judicial/legislative branch (=the three main parts of the US government)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
achievement
▪ The Act of 1944 remains the one substantial legislative achievement of the wartime coalition.
▪ His only real legislative achievement was creation of the Peace Corps.
▪ Some even believe that scandals, unless they get out of hand, can serve as an incentive for legislative achievement.
action
▪ A non-revolutionary socialist, she believed in legislative action.
▪ There is a shadow here, experts say: Consumer mistrust and legislative action could keep the concept from really taking off.
▪ The regulation of financial affairs involves inpart legislative action, inpart executive action.
▪ Party loyalty used to be a powerful force in determining legislative action.
▪ No legislative action has been taken on either recommendation.
▪ Aronoff, Riffe, other lawmakers and lobbyists adamantly deny any connection between campaign contributions, honoraria and legislative action.
▪ But others, such as tax relief for financial service companies, would require legislative action.
acts
▪ It involves the power to nullify legislative acts on constitutional grounds.
▪ What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation.
▪ No fewer than 20 legislative acts will be required, says Mr Otsason.
▪ Regulations, directives, and decisions have in common that they are binding legislative Acts.
agenda
▪ It also cleared the way for the Senate to take action on Mr Bush's cabinet nominees and his legislative agenda.
▪ With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda.
▪ The chamber's procedural rules mean that the Democrats will now gain control of its legislative agenda.
▪ To be sure, an inaugural address is not the occasion for a president to list the details of his legislative agenda.
▪ Also, as the Senate leader, Dole can contrast himself with Clinton with a legislative agenda that reinforces his campaign message.
▪ However, Clinton has no illusions that the Republican Congress would react favorably to a legislative agenda, McCurry said.
▪ Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
approval
▪ However, the Judgments Act is not the only legislative approval for the imposition of interest.
▪ The plan will require federal administrative or legislative approval.
▪ The agreement was subject to legislative approval in both countries.
▪ Each participating State will provide for its legislative approval of defence expenditures.
▪ To ensure political accountability, they might need executive approval to borrow up to a higher limit, and legislative approval beyond.
▪ Tim Leslie, R-Roseville, was given final legislative approval by the Senate on a 23-3 vote.
assembly
▪ There is no legislative assembly, although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980.
assistant
▪ A lawyer, Alexander went to Washington as legislative assistant to Sen.
▪ Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
▪ A former legislative assistant to North Carolina Sen.
▪ He omitted it on applications to be a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill.
▪ To his surprise, Alexander recalled, Baker won and tapped him to go to Washington to work as his legislative assistant.
authority
▪ The example shows that the objector's neat distinction between adjudicative and legislative authorities is mistaken.
▪ State law bars convicts from holding offices invested with executive or legislative authority.
▪ Primary legislative authority is exercised through the unicameral Chamber of Deputies, elected every five years.
▪ He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority.
▪ Critics say the law upsets the balance of power by delegating legislative authority to the executive branch.
▪ It is enacted not by the ordinary legislative authority but by some higher and specially empowered body.
▪ None of this, however, made the Assembly a legislative authority.
body
▪ The Assembly was not a true legislative body.
▪ See some of these other legislative bodies, and it makes you appreciate our boys.
▪ The People's Assembly, the unicameral legislative body, is elected for a five-year term by direct popular vote.
▪ Never blame a legislative body for not doing something.
▪ In our democracy, the making of public policy is usually reserved for duly elected legislative bodies.
▪ It was the first and biggest step in changing the council from a legislative body to a rubber stamp for his administration.
▪ There is no elected national legislative body.
branch
▪ Not withstanding these comforting words, Gerald Ford never succeeded in establishing a productive relationship with the legislative branch.
▪ The judiciary, not the executive or legislative branches, was the most powerful institution, I decided.
▪ Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch, attempting to govern without congress rather than with it.
▪ Another obstacle to congressional effectiveness is the communication gap between the executive and legislative branches.
▪ Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive, the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
▪ The legislative branch has just chosen its leadership.
change
▪ But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
▪ I hope that he will veer away from that argument and say why legislative change is needed.
▪ Furthermore, the very frequency of legislative change caused a higher premium to be placed on the flexibility of any computer system.
▪ Recent legislative changes have not helped.
▪ Other legislative changes produced their own effects.
▪ The current business environment gives rise to unparalleled demands for flexible and dynamic management of the business in response to economic or legislative change.
committee
▪ There are only six permanent legislative committees, whose membership is far too large for any real scrutiny to take place.
▪ Some early doubts as to the applicability of that privilege before a legislative committee never matured.
▪ But the State Preservation Board and a legislative committee is trying to change that.
▪ Half the bills introduced each year are written by lobbyists, who often serve alongside elected lawmakers on special legislative committees.
▪ Now the legislative committee vows to subject each of those earlybird regulations to even tougher scrutiny.
▪ Democratic lawmakers are calling for a joint legislative committee to review the conduct of Gov.
▪ The bills quietly moved through legislative committees and were adopted by both chambers on the final night of the session.
council
▪ Without a constitution, the powers of the legislative council are unclear.
effort
▪ That legislative effort is clearly impermissible under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
▪ But that law was repealed as part of a legislative effort to boost voter registration and participation.
▪ As we explain below, we find this legislative effort within constitutional bounds even if Congress may not regulate drinking ages directly.
election
▪ The Democrats in the 1980s have continued to dominate congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
▪ Chances are the competitive nature of state legislative elections will increase also.
▪ As a result legislative elections were expected to take place before the end of January 1993 and presidential elections before mid-February.
▪ He is currently campaigning for his party's candidates in the May 14 legislative elections.
▪ All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform.
enactment
▪ As Weld ought to have told Silber, a grandstanding press conference on Beacon Hill is a long way from legislative enactment.
▪ At the beginning of the war, patrol and legislative enactments were rigidly enforced.
framework
▪ It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years.
function
▪ In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function.
▪ These may relate to the legislative functions of government.
history
▪ Yet, despite its lofty aims, the Act had an odd, somewhat shoddy, legislative history.
▪ This California legislative history explains why patients resorted to a statewide ballot initiative.
▪ The legislative history of this provision is recorded in Chapter 4.
▪ This reading derives support from the legislative history of the provision.
▪ The earlier in the legislative history of the provision the admissible statement is found obviously the greater this task becomes.
intention
▪ Some of the earliest arguments that legislative intentions count were made to judges in the course of lawsuits.
▪ Division Two deals with meaning, legislative intention and methods of interpretation.
leader
▪ Taylor was one of several legislative leaders who joined with Gov.
majority
▪ If a legislative majority can be created, their leader becomes prime minister.
▪ But are we all, on that account, at the mercy of legislative majorities?...
▪ From 1993 to 1995, a conservative legislative majority produced a second period of cohabitation.
▪ Steve Peace, which won a legislative majority last year.
measure
▪ The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure.
▪ Proponents say Prop. 103 can help guarantee that, along with legislative measures now being considered by California lawmakers.
▪ The monarch gave formal assent to any legislative measure approved by the two houses.
▪ By convention, the monarch gives the Royal Assent to all legislative measures approved by Parliament.
▪ The courts can not declare a legislative measure or an executive action contrary to the provisions of the Constitution.
▪ The authors propose two ways forward: they encourage a change in attitudes and they call for some specific legislative measures.
power
▪ Unitary Because all legislative power stems from Parliament, we have a unitary as opposed to a federal constitution.
▪ It seeks to put legislative power directly into the hands of the people and circumvent the long-standing institutions of representative government.
▪ They have also shown themselves reluctant to allow any sub-delegation of judicial or legislative powers.
▪ A change of executive and legislative power was demanded.
▪ This hits at the established doctrine that the courts recognise no legal limits to Parliament's legislative power.
▪ Strictly speaking, there is no acceptable delegation of legislative power....
▪ In the present case, however, a pure delegation of legislative power is precisely what we have before us.
▪ An empirical test of the relative decline of legislative power is especially difficult.
priority
▪ And, unlike Mr Clinton, he has made his legislative priorities clear.
process
▪ This requires the intense work of international political theorists in relation to the creation of a legislative process for international law.
▪ He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process.
▪ One knows that governments have other considerations to bear in mind, including the legislative process itself.
▪ Money often dominates the initiative process even more than it does the legislative process.
▪ They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
▪ We tried to help these people using the legislative process.
▪ Before the formally dramatic part of the legislative process even begins, almost all the terms of almost all Bills are settled.
▪ It is justified solely as an adjunct to the legislative process.
programme
▪ This is the measure of the legislative programme.
▪ Criticism has also been levelled at the inadequacies of the legislative programme.
▪ But hampered by the lack of enthusiasm from the White House, the measure failed to complete its legislative programme.
▪ Nowadays, much the greater part of the legislative programme of the two Houses is taken up by Public Bills.
▪ This has the great plus of achieving a certain coherence and integrity through the whole of the legislative programme and executive actions.
▪ Labour Ministers, newly in office, were raring to go with their own legislative programme.
▪ This year's legislative programme is deliberately light so that not too many Bills are lost when the election is called.
▪ The Tsar proved wary of replacing Stolypin with a leader committed to any firm legislative programme.
proposal
▪ Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.
▪ Then twice last week, McCaughey Ross joined Democrats to push legislative proposals that Pataki opposed.
▪ Not everyone is happy about the legislative proposal.
reform
▪ This point can perhaps also be illustrated by some of the recent legislative reforms of company law.
▪ Perhaps with reason, Brown has regarded most legislative reform proposals as a personal attack on him.
▪ There is always a risk that legislative reforms which outpace public opinion will be undermined by reaction.
▪ But what we mean by reform is not the same as legislative reform.
▪ Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform.
▪ Clear legislative reform is needed to overcome the inadequacies of the current position.
▪ Following legislative reforms, it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful.
session
▪ The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session.
▪ That bill didn't become law, but Martin already has a new one prepared for the upcoming legislative session.
▪ After all, the candidate who wins the June 1 runoff may never serve during a legislative session.
▪ Wilson will try again this legislative session, Spidell said.
▪ The effort to regulate HMOs hit a snag in the recent legislative session, when Gov.
▪ In Britain, the opposition party is guaranteed control of a specified amount of time during legislative sessions.
▪ The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
▪ One of the ongoing partisan battles over spending led to a typical case of gridlock as the legislative session ended last month.
veto
▪ This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto.
▪ This procedure came to be known as the legislative veto.
▪ The prominence of the legislative veto mechanism in our contemporary political system and its importance to Congress can hardly be overstated.
▪ Accordingly, over the past five decades, the legislative veto has been placed in nearly 200 statutes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Legislative authority rests with parliament.
▪ a legislative committee
▪ The governor has shown in the legislative process.
▪ The Liberal Party has won control of the legislative assembly.
▪ The U.S. president has no legislative power, but he can make recommendations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.
▪ Hence we examine the issues surrounding the development of legislative and other means of intervening in the press.
▪ The 1996 legislative races turned out to be particularly important because of newly opened seats due to term limits.
▪ The ruling yesterday is expected to have an impact on six other states that have legislative term limits with lifetime bans.
▪ Where this is so, Parliament's legislative role is as above described in relation to Acts and United Kingdom delegated legislation.