legislative authority

collocation in English

meaningsoflegislativeandauthority

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legislative
adjective
uk
/ˈledʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/us
/ˈledʒ.ə.slə.t̬ɪv/
relating to laws or the making ...
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authority
noun
uk
/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us
/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition oflegislativeandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegislative authority

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However, since expertise is not commonly the basis oflegislativeauthority, an argument from expertise cannot be used to defend the general claim of intentionalism.
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The concept of practical authority includeslegislativeauthority(lawmakers) and adjudicative authority (judges and adjudicators).
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The second section undermines the support that intentionalism claims to derive from the possibility of legitimatelegislativeauthority.
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Conceptual analysis tells us that to havelegislativeauthoritya reflective critical attitude to the norm is required.
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Only where the dual guides of reason and revelation provided no principle did law become a positivistic exercise inlegislativeauthority.
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To the extent that it exercises itslegislativeauthority, it does so through amendments.
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If authoritative directives in the simplest case are to be understood in accordance with socially salient arrays,legislativeauthoritymay appear to be vitiated.
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The president in both countries is elected by a popular vote, holds office for a fixed term, selects and directs the cabinet and has somelegislativeauthority.
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Thelegislativeauthorityhas now said what is expected of the oil industry by the year 2005.
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We undertook instead to provide freshlegislativeauthorityfar such powers as were still required and to put a strict limit on their use.
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They would havelegislativeauthorityfor doing so.
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Legislativeauthorityhas permitted them to be used.
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No lending, for example, is possible without appropriatelegislativeauthority.
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The reason, of course, is that thelegislativeauthorityfor these things has not yet been given.
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Instead of needinglegislativeauthorityfor every variation of detail, however minor or technical, the schemes would be established in administrative documents and amended administratively.
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A fee is a charge made underlegislativeauthority.
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It has the duty to grantlegislativeauthority.
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One of the differences in that concept is the need to exerciselegislativeauthority.
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By postponing the date they get freshlegislativeauthorityfor a month in reference to powers which otherwise would have expired.
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This allowance for obsolescence was in practice given as far back as 1897 but did not receive formallegislativeauthorityuntil 1918.
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