legislative power

collocation in English

meaningsoflegislativeandpower

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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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power
noun
uk
/paʊər/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition oflegislativeandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegislative power

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While it retains the majority, the ruling party has to sharelegislativepowerwith the opposition.
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In documenting this legislative diversity, we set forth a new, multidimensional framework for evaluating statelegislativepower.
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Indeed, these very same issues of foreign policy and relativelegislativepowerwould lead to the crisis of 1957.
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The goals behind these changes (and others) were to separate executive andlegislativepowerand to improve stability.
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As for the role of thelegislativepowerin the new democracy, the results are also far from being conclusive.
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Our first natural instinct and reaction, havinglegislativepowerin our hands, is to use thatlegislativepower.
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We must not reduce itslegislativepower.
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There islegislativepowerto do it.
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It must be backed bylegislativepower.
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No,legislativepoweris the key.
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The granting oflegislativepoweris separate.
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Legislativepoweris essentially being turned into executive power.
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A grand committee havinglegislativepoweris the second option.
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I have referred to the absence oflegislativepower.
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The democratically elected national parliaments loselegislativepower.
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It will havelegislativepoweras well as administrative power.
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In the first place, he has not himselflegislativepower.
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He can getlegislativepowerwhenever he wants it.
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It is a future exercise of secondary, subordinatelegislativepower.
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We must discuss what secondarylegislativepowermeans.
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It is not any connection withlegislativepower.
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That is so because it has nolegislativepower.
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I have nolegislativepowerto operate differently from that.
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I assert thatlegislativepowergainsays prerogative power.
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These tribally based assemblies, while of some propaganda value, could, of course, never offer more than a mirage oflegislativepower.
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