| To spend so much for the sake of legislating against a minority doing something they never did is, to my effete southern mind, perverse. |
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| Under Scottish parliament rules, clerks do not help draft bills connected with areas which the Executive is already legislating or consulting on. |
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| It makes good sense, however, to include as many species as possible when legislating in order to control contagious livestock diseases. |
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| More and more, courts in both the United States and Europe are legislating from the bench. |
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| Thus the constant, unceasing, restless legislating in the areas of crime, punishment and anti-social behaviour. |
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| This bill is nothing but touchy, fluffy, feel-good nonsense, and it is doing nothing more than promoting and legislating lying. |
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| And clearly, the mainstream of the Democratic party have no interest in legislating what people do in their bedrooms, pews and deathbeds. |
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| I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them. |
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| Instead, I question the morality of legislating against a group simply seeking a better pay for a dangerous job. |
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| Ambivalence best characterizes the American approach to legislating personal morality. |
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| The principle of not legislating retrospectively is supported by the interpretative principle that enactments do not have retrospective effect. |
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| For once you start legislating against the falsification of history, where do you stop? |
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| Several provinces sought to occupy the void by passing, among others, statutes legislating against fraudulent preferences. |
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| The Council of the European Union passes laws, usually legislating jointly with the European  Parliament. |
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| Secondly, are we legislating with open eyes about the cost of what is proposed? |
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| It cannot create jobs by legislating to cut working hours, as if jobs were a cake that you carve up and divide between people. |
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| Congress's intention in discussing global warming is no longer legislating, but electioneering. |
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| Why not make that a priority instead of frenetically legislating to take away our privacy all the time? |
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| The longer Congress goes without legislating a change, the costlier it will be for the economy. |
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| One hurdle is to get a bill legislating for a referendum through parliament. |
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| The Lib Dems would also like longer tenancies, but only by encouraging them – not legislating. |
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| All of these avenues offer Members full remedy to this conditional approach to legislating should they object to it. |
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| The problem is not only one of legislating on indigenous issues, but also of doing so with the indigenous people themselves. |
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| I would also like to reiterate the importance of legislating on the maximum permitted levels of alcohol. |
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| Lack of international consensus on these topics places heavy burdens on each legislating country. |
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| When legislating, the Union needs to find ways of speeding up the legislative process. |
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| It is Government policy to comply with its international obligations, including when legislating. |
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| Point taken, but I don't think legislating against it works. |
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| They also have an important role to play in legislating provisions that guarantee fundamental rights in security operations. |
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| At that time Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were badgering her about legislating from the bench. |
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| And it will mean legislating to end age discrimination at work. |
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| By doing so and legislating the Qassas laws, the post-revolutionary state endowed fathers with the undisputed right of life and death over their children. |
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| But, if animal welfare is the aim, Parliament should be legislating on intensive animal farming methods and battery chickens raised in windowless warehouses. |
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| For those who do not trust the government, it is an excuse for ranting and raving instead of legislating compromised reform. |
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| The government is sheltering behind these workers, insisting that it can't drop the opt-out because that would effectively mean legislating a pay-cut for 1.6 million workers. |
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| There remains work to be done on the Government's announced intention of legislating to remove the remaining hereditary peers and create a partly elected upper house. |
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| Bishop followed local requirements legislating that women must cover their heads, wearing both a headscarf and a hat upon her arrival in the country. |
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| It must be endowed with institutional powers and practical means to express the will of the people by legislating and overseeing government action. |
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| This recognizes the critical importance of having good information available to the public as a substitute for the full and open parliamentary process in legislating. |
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| Proven strategies include using the appropriate passenger restraints in cars, legislating helmet use for bike riding and designing safer products. |
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| However, the document stresses the importance of considering the Charter in legislating to amend the Criminal Code with regard to requests for bodily fluid samples and the offending driver's rights to consult a lawyer. |
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| If we kept that in mind when legislating, we would come up with rules that are a great deal simpler, and the Members of this Parliament would be spared from the farcical exercise of voting on hundreds of amendments. |
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| Its argument is that by legislating on immigration Arizona has trespassed on federal authority and violated the supremacy clause of the constitution. The plea of its supporters in Arizona is: read the bill for yourself. |
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| It is also responsible for formulating and implementing plans for economic and social development and for legislating on criminal, civil, commercial, agrarian, labour, and procedural law. |
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| When legislating for the Scottish Parliament, a number of matters were reserved by the UK Parliament at Westminster. |
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| Taking into account its transitional nature, it should limit its own prerogatives to managing the transition and holding back from legislating through executive orders. |
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| Judicial power will accordingly be poorly organized if the holders of this power play an active role in legislating or can, in some way, influence the making of the law. |
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| We seem always to have been incapable even of taking a general view of the subject we were legislating upon. |
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| As well, I firmly believe in legislating robust whistleblowing protection to ensure that those who expose corruption and wrongdoing are protected from reprisal. |
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| The RSPH, which represents 6,000 public health specialists across the UK, wants e-cigarette manufacturers to voluntarily agree to change the names or, if they do not, for ministers to consider legislating. |
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| Lord Adonis pointed out in his book on the coalition negotiations in 2010 that, at the 11th hour, Osborne advocated legislating for a five-year, fixed-term parliament. |
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| This provision goes against the current worldwide trend in legislating against marital rape in other jurisdictions. |
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| The second point I would like to mention concerns globalisation: we have noted the sclerotic effect of either Congress or ourselves legislating first and discovering that the ends do not match. |
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| Even though this is not the subject of this note, the CPMR is worried about the European Union's delay in legislating in this area, when toll charging initiatives are being introduced by some Member States. |
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| For the purposes of legislating and directing the Union's action, decision-making patterns which require unanimity will have to be dispensed with. |
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| Would it not be sufficient to apply what is today pompously referred to as the precautionary principle, namely basic caution, instead of legislating left, right and centre? |
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| To our mind, that commitment to legislating against harm rather than legislating morality is endangered or imperiled by the approach this committee currently seems to be taking. |
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| When legislating for Scotland since the passing of the Act, the British Parliament has to consider whether the Church of Scotland is to be excluded from the provisions. |
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