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 legislation [,ledʒis'leiʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 立法, 法律

[医] 立法, 法规




    legislation
    [ noun ]
    1. law enacted by a legislative body

    2. <noun.communication>
    3. the act of making or enacting laws

    4. <noun.act>


    Legislation \Leg`is*la"tion\ (-l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F.
    l['e]gislation, L. legis latio. See {Legislator}.]
    The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws;
    the laws enacted.

    Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy.
    --Lyttelton.

    1. The single Independent in the upper house, Senator Brian Harradine, sided with the opposition. The legislation will now be referred back to the House of Representatives, which has already approved all eight budget bills.
    2. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. "I hope the president will follow his own commission's advice." Waxman is among several members of Congress pushing for anti-discrimination legislation.
    3. But the most controversial section of the legislation was the plan to overhaul the law that blocks new products with any element of futurity from trading on a securities exchange.
    4. And our bill would make Congress come clean with the American taxpayer as to the real cost of punitive trade legislation.
    5. By splitting up the population by race and, through a host of other apartheid legislation, assigning nonwhites to lower positions in society, the white minority could continue in power.
    6. If procedures are followed, the law does not oblige employers to pay redundancy pay; in practice employers rarely do so. Salaried employees come under separate legislation.
    7. The debate is designed to allow the government to bring back next month the legislation to ratify the treaty. No one at Westminster doubts that the prime minister feels strongly about the issue.
    8. AMR had also sought to foil Mr. Trump in Congress by lobbying for legislation that would have bolstered the authority of the Transportation Department to reject airline buy-outs.
    9. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 13-2 for legislation that includes the 48-hour requirement.
    10. The legislation was introduced with support from 46 co-sponsors.
    11. The legislation provides only about one-fifth of the amount requested by the administration for a manned space station.
    12. But President Fujimori was relying on APRA's support to pass several key packages of legislation, including approval of his hand-picked Central Bank president.
    13. Also this week, the House gave final congressional approval to legislation creating a congressional panel to investigate the eight-month-old strike against Eastern, a measure the Bush administration has threatened to veto.
    14. State Sen. Walter Dudycz, who has demonstrated against the work at the School of the Art Institute almost daily since the controversy began, said he would co-sponsor legislation to toughen laws against desecrating the flag.
    15. Little legislation has moved through the Congress so far this year, with most of the time spent on the failed plan to raise congressional pay and the Senate battle over the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary.
    16. The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared legislation requiring each federal trial court to adopt a plan for cutting costs and delays.
    17. EC finance ministers last night supported legislation aimed at preventing banks overstretching themselves with large loans to single clients, writes Andrew Hill.
    18. The legislation would continue to fund construction of some 400 dams and harbor and irrigation projects where work has begun, and maintain hundreds of others already in operation.
    19. The legislation is given good prospects for winning House approval, but it faces tough going in the Senate.
    20. Quayle was an outspoken opponent of legislation to ban the use of lie detectors in the workplace, and he complained when the White House dropped its opposition last March that it had "caved like a house of cards."
    21. The 1970 legislation creating the "independent" Postal Service called for an agency with the freedom of a public corporation to run its affairs in a businesslike manner and pay wages comparable to those in industry and the rest of government.
    22. The proposal was announced over a year ago and Canada's federal government hasn't yet introduced formal legislation.
    23. On any tax legislation, Rep. Rostenkowski repeated his intention of wanting support from President Reagan first.
    24. Critics of the Senate bill said almost every defendant facing a death sentence would claim to be mentally retarded under the legislation.
    25. Legislators said the media statute was modeled after similar legislation in several West European countries.
    26. The move comes about a month after the Belzbergs failed to seat three of four nominees on the Armstrong board and the state enacted legislation that requires corporate raiders to surrender short-term profits from thwarted takeover bids.
    27. Closed-door negotiations over the air legislation have been going on for weeks on both sides of the Capitol.
    28. Members find it easy to doctor legislation by slipping in special provisions that could never survive in the cold light of day.
    29. In addition, the lobbying muscle of AT&T and other phone companies has proven sufficient to stifle legislation aimed against them.
    30. Any such agreement between the airlines and airport operators could be written into the congressional legislation reauthorizing the aviation trust fund.
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