On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Legislate. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as pass or ordain and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Legislate meaning
To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
Using Legislate
- The main meaning on this page is: To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
- Useful related words include: pass, ordain, enact.
- In the example corpus, legislate often appears in combinations such as: to legislate, legislate for, legislate to.
Context around Legislate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Legislate
- In this selection, "legislate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cannot, cohesion, forgiveness and inconsistently stand out and add context to how "legislate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to legislate on clearly and able to legislate inconsistently with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "legislate" sits close to words such as aesthetically, apa and aqsa, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with legislate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said Article 191 did not take away the Parliament’s right to legislate. (14 words)
In the same way, one cannot legislate cohesion and unity of purpose, and one cannot legislate forgiveness and closure. (19 words)
It’s bad enough that the NBA has to continue to try and legislate flopping out of the game. (19 words)
If there are rules around sensitive sites, that is something that we should legislate at the federal level and it should apply to individuals rather than targeting people based on their citizenship,” Green told The Intercept. (36 words)
Premier Chris Minns promised during this year's election campaign to legislate to keep the two state-owned corporations in public hands, but the Coalition has accused Labor of running a scare campaign on the issue. (36 words)
Efforts by members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to legislate for some official uses of the language have failed to achieve the required cross-community support, and the UK government has declined to legislate. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the same way, one cannot legislate cohesion and unity of purpose, and one cannot legislate forgiveness and closure.
Adopting section 2 of the Statute clarified that the Commonwealth parliament was able to legislate inconsistently with British legislation, adopting section 3 clarified that it could legislate with extraterritorial effect.
Efforts by members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to legislate for some official uses of the language have failed to achieve the required cross-community support, and the UK government has declined to legislate.
Since the power to investigate is an aspect of Congress's power to legislate, it is as broad as Congress's powers to legislate.
A recent law passed by a Republican supermajority and signed in by Republican Governor Bill Lee made Tennessee the first state in the nation to legislate against drag performances.
But it is also important to legislate well and that is why today's meeting is a basic coordination,” Mirosevic said.
For the EU to legislate on Slapps, it first had to establish that it had the power to do so.
He added: “We will legislate to remove the WCA so that in future there will only be one health and disability assessment - the PIP assessment.
He said Article 191 did not take away the Parliament’s right to legislate.
He said as the legislature did not have the power to write judicial orders, the executive and judiciary did not have the authority to legislate.
If a deal emerges that convinces the DUP to return to Stormont then the Government could legislate to avoid the need for a fresh election.
If there are rules around sensitive sites, that is something that we should legislate at the federal level and it should apply to individuals rather than targeting people based on their citizenship,” Green told The Intercept.
I hope that with your help we can legislate for male hygiene bins to be provided in all male toilets in the UK.
In a response to a government-initiated Holyrood question, Ms Somerville labelled the section 25 order as “an unprecedented challenge to the Scottish Parliament’s ability to legislate on clearly devolved matters”.
Interestingly, 12 states without any legislative mandate do codify the coverage of infertility as an essential health benefit, and seven states that legislate infertility benefits do not," Sandozi said.
It’s bad enough that the NBA has to continue to try and legislate flopping out of the game.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government was ready to legislate to protect Northern Ireland's position and would work "at pace".
Patrick Costello, Green Party TD and member of the Good Friday Agreement Oireachtas Committee, has called on the Irish government to legislate to make the 12th of July a public holiday.
Premier Chris Minns promised during this year's election campaign to legislate to keep the two state-owned corporations in public hands, but the Coalition has accused Labor of running a scare campaign on the issue.
Some fear the government will legislate in favor of Jewish in the West Bank, in violation of international law and without the Supreme Court’s judicial check, according to the BBC.
Common combinations with legislate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to legislate 91×
- legislate for 16×
- legislate to 13×
- legislate on 12×
- can legislate 10×
- legislate against 8×
- legislate the 8×
- cannot legislate 5×
- legislate in 5×
- legislate and 5×