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Example sentences for "legislated"

Lexicographically close words:
legionis; legionnaires; legions; legis; legislate; legislates; legislating; legislation; legislations; legislativa
  1. Instead of taking the ground, that the benefit of the whole Union was the sole object of a federal district, and that it was to be legislated over for this end--the resolution proceeds upon an hypothesis totally the reverse.

  2. The council also legislated against the abettors of heresy, even if they were princes, and ordered the despoiling of all rulers who neglected to enforce the ecclesiastical law in their domains.

  3. But about the twelfth century they deservedly fell into great disfavor, until at last the Popes, particularly Innocent III, Honorius III, and Gregory IX, legislated them out of existence.

  4. He legislated well and presciently, they imagine, for the interests of a remote posterity.

  5. The Governments of South Australia, Queensland, and Western Australia have legislated in a similar direction, and that of New South Wales introduced a Bill which failed to become law.

  6. They have no rights that they can insist upon; they are simply privileged to exist by society's permission, and may be any moment legislated out of their vocation.

  7. It is a fact, that some of them have legislated upon it.

  8. By the first act of Congress accepting the cession, the United States have legislated in the very way the gentleman from Virginia now proposes.

  9. To all this mass of proof we have still to add, that Congress has repeatedly legislated upon the same construction of the Constitution that we have given.

  10. Prejudice was so great against the presence of a Colored school in a community of white people, that a school, established by a very worthy white lady, was mobbed and then legislated out of existence.

  11. Where students legislated for themselves, their rules were neither numerous nor detailed.

  12. Chinese law has never legislated with regard to weights and measures, and no inspector ever goes round to see that the public is not cheated when they make their purchases.

  13. Until Congress has legislated upon this subject, or until Executive authority sanctions it, no questions of this character will be committed to the jurisdiction of the local courts.

  14. So far as Congress has legislated upon these subjects, it has placed them under the direct control of the general government, and under the laws of nations and laws of war the same principle applies to the other subject.

  15. Parliament again legislated about factories and workshops in 1895.

  16. Then it appears to me that you have legislated honesty, regard for human life, regard for character, abhorrence of unnatural vice, good faith, and sobriety.

  17. Then why do you say that you have not legislated personal virtue in America?

  18. Was legislated a function of the post-office," the Altrurian went on.

  19. Nuns as well as monks were constantly legislated for by these chapters-general, but they were very rarely visited, because (as we shall see) they were almost all subject to visitation by the bishop of their diocese.

  20. Another habit against which bishops constantly legislated was that of having the children to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.

  21. Congress legislated upon the subject in such terms as were most consonant with the principle of popular sovereignty which underlies our Government.

  22. It could not have legislated otherwise without doing violence to another great principle of our institutions--the imprescriptible right of equality of the several States.

  23. Whenever the need of a new rule was felt, the pontiffs legislated by their decretals, the originals of which were preserved in the papal archives.

  24. In all Protestant countries, the state legislated for the Protestant church; it nowhere treated with it as a separate power, and held, and could hold, no diplomatic relations with it.

  25. If this evil practice can be legislated against, it will be my pleasure as well as duty to enforce any regulation to secure so desirable an end.

  26. Italy has not legislated for adults, but has made regulations for child labor.

  27. The question of seats for saleswomen comes up periodically, has been at some points legislated upon, and is in most stores ignored or evaded.

  28. In convocation they legislated without interference on spiritual matters, including those which concerned their jurisdiction.

  29. In matters affecting temporal interests, parliament legislated for the Church.

  30. Thus there really was no case likely to arise in Israel to compare with that legislated for in Babylonia, which law regulated all cases except this in Canaan also.

  31. The Hebrew law appears to have legislated for a small people, among whom human life was precious and property scanty.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legislated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.