legislating
present participle oflegislate
| 单词 | legislating |
| 释义 | legislating present participle oflegislate legislate verb[I] formaluk/ˈledʒ.ɪ.sleɪt/us/ˈledʒ.ə.sleɪt/If agovernmentlegislates, it makes a newlaw: Theypromisedto legislateagainstcigaretteadvertising. It's hard to legislatefor(= make alawthat willprotect)theownershipof anidea. Compare passverb(APPROVE) UK politics: legislation & law-making
Examplesoflegislatinglegislating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode oflegislatingin the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created. From theCambridge English Corpus Specifically, it has failed to play an active and independent role inlegislatingpublic policies and exercising fiscal control over the national budget. From theCambridge English Corpus The problems and pitfalls of developing andlegislatinghealth policy are taken up in the next two papers. From theCambridge English Corpus Where language policies for multilingualism work at the state level, it is probably mostly in cases of recognizing andlegislatingalready established situations. From theCambridge English Corpus They pointed out that even whilelegislatinghigher standards for teacher education, 25 states have created alternative, less demanding routes to certification. From theCambridge English Corpus More importantly, the existence of multiple veto points may establish the preconditions for a particularistic style oflegislating. From theCambridge English Corpus As such, we should have no fear that bylegislatingvirtue we shall diminish its existence among those who already possess it. From theCambridge English Corpus The judge who conceives of herself aslegislatingrarely says so in an opinion. From theCambridge English Corpus The alternative oflegislatingthat pension fund fiduciaries are obliged to act ' prudently ' in managing investments. From theCambridge English Corpus I have always held thatlegislatinglanguage is a tricky business, one that's likely to backfire, or misfire. From theCambridge English Corpus If advocates of the politics of presence are right, however, that amounts tolegislatingpartially in ignorance. From theCambridge English Corpus Or government may sanction ineffective sectoral governance by threatening to act itself orlegislatingin ways that transform the existing form of regulation. From theCambridge English Corpus We should fear only that bylegislatingvirtue we shall fail to encourage its cultivation by those who do not already enjoy the dispositional states within which it resides. From theCambridge English Corpus Ministers have lower incentives to produce detailed laws in informationally intense issue areas where the opportunity cost oflegislating, in terms of forgone constituency and government service, is greater. From theCambridge English Corpus All these factors may have led thelegislatingelite in the direction of a permissive outlook and somewhat less inequality, as reflected in the progressive fines. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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