legislativele‧gis‧la‧tive /ˈledʒəslətɪv $ -leɪtɪv/ ●○○ AWL adjective [only before noun] 
The new assemblies will have no legislative power.legislative assembly/council/body etc (=one with the power to make laws) the main legislative body of the EU new legislative measures to stem the flow of drugs into the US legislative elections
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorrelating to the law
connected with laws and courts: legal advice: · People on low salaries can get free legal advice.legal battle/dispute (=when two people or organizations disagree about something, and this is judged in a court of law): · Neither side wanted a long and expensive legal battle.legal fees (=money you have to pay lawyers): · The American government does not pay the legal fees of Americans who are arrested abroad.
connected with making laws: legislative assembly/council/body: · The Liberal Party has won control of the legislative assembly.legislative power/authority/control: · Legislative authority rests with parliament.· The U.S. president has no legislative power, but he can make recommendations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The new assemblies will have no legislative power. legislative electionsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The new assemblies will have no legislative power. (=one with the power to make laws) the main legislative body of the EU
the main legislative body of the EU legislative elections (=the three main parts of the US government)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· There is no legislative assembly, although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· Without a constitution, the powers of the legislative council are unclear.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years.
· In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function.· These may relate to the legislative functions of government.
· 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.
· 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.
· Taylor was one of several legislative leaders who joined with Gov.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· And, unlike Mr Clinton, he has made his legislative priorities clear.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
WORD FAMILYnounlegislationlegislatorlegislatureadjectivelegislativeverblegislate
concerned with making laws: The new assemblies will have no legislative power.legislative assembly/council/body etc (=one with the power to make laws) the main legislative body of the EU new legislative measures to stem the flow of drugs into the US legislative elections