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vi. 制定法律

vt. 用立法规定

[法] 制定法律, 立法




    legislate
    [ verb ]
    make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
    <verb.social> pass
    They passed the amendmentWe cannot legislate how people spend their free time


    Legislate \Leg"is*late\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
    p. {Legislated} (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Legislating} (-l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [See {Legislator}.]
    To make or enact a law or laws.

    Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of
    a more perfect constitution than he gave them. --Bp.
    Watson (1805).

    1. "You can't legislate against insanity," the Conservative Party legislator said Thursday.
    2. In other measures: - Louisiana is cutting the waiting time for a divorce in half by no longer requiring a six-month separation before a couple files for divorce. "Our attempts to legislate morality in the divorce process have been unsuccessful.
    3. Mark de Bernardo, special counsel for domestic policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Reagan is correct in opposing any move by Congress to legislate worker notification protections.
    4. "Since the state has initiated a coordinated program, attempts by individual counties to legislate their own timetables for recycled newsprint are counterproductive," said Adler.
    5. Mr. Rzepczynski says that before year's end, the credit-card securities market may face its first supply since the failed attempt in Congress recently to legislate a cap on interest rates charged by creditcard issuers.
    6. And to the anxiety of airlines, some lawmakers are responding to personal travel travails by seeking to legislate new air-service requirements.
    7. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Richard Breeden called the plan "an example of precisely the wrong way to legislate."
    8. Opposing all attempts to legislate morality.
    9. This was launched last summer with the intent of persuading parliament to legislate against practices such as upwards-only rent reviews.
    10. But Glauber, who works for the department's Economic Research Service, says there is a perception among many farmers that "if there is a widespread natural disaster, Congress will legislate" one-time assistance to help the affected producers.
    11. Congress itself came in for some justifiable criticism for failing to legislate clearly and for failing to understand that American foreign policy must have a higher level of consistency if it is to have credibility with the rest of the world.
    12. 'She should legislate to ensure that resources are in the right place and that the network of comprehensive care advocated by the select committee is implemented throughout Britain,' he said. Better Off in the Community?
    13. Mr Kohl has been emphasising increasingly the need for a 'citizen-friendly Europe', and for recognition that the EC has been trying to legislate on too many details of daily lives. 'It is not a criticism of the Commission.
    14. Such fines thus encourage legislators, in effect, to declare that they favor an ordinance not in order to avoid bankrupting the city for which they legislate, but in order to avoid bankrupting themselves.
    15. Then he went to Washington and, almost single-handed, persuaded the Americans to legislate a not too scaled-down version of these proposals. As a direct result of this resounding achievement he was appointed Ambassador to Washington in 1948.
    16. "You can't legislate against" gambling in the markets, said Rep. de la Garza, who got $33,500 from the traders' PACs.
    17. The new law could make this worse. It is unrealistic to legislate for a market in which all participants have equal access to information.
    18. No doubt Congress, after divisive debate, would attempt to legislate those matters, but nobody knows what legislative compromises would result, and if the convention delegates would acquiesce in Congress's dictation.
    19. If we want a more efficient defense on fewer dollars, we will have to be honest with ourselves and legislate a Defense bill that puts the priority on security not employment.
    20. Once again, they are showing their tendency to give away unilaterally what properly should be bargained with the Soviets, a habit that is further compounded by the Democratic Congress's attempts to legislate arms control through backdoor appropriations.
    21. "It pungently underlines the oppressive right-wing political agenda that is attempting to legislate morality in all the arts, including music.
    22. O'Connor said Congress has unique power to legislate against discrimination.
    23. "It's very difficult to legislate against people interacting in a job situation," says Clay Foushee, an aviation safety researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
    24. The Canadian Manufacturers Association and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business urged the government to legislate a return to work by the strikers.
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