recent legislation

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meaningsofrecentandlegislation

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recent
adjective
uk
/ˈriː.sənt/us
/ˈriː.sənt/
happening or starting from a short ...
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legislation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌledʒ.ɪˈsleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌledʒ.əˈsleɪ.ʃən/
a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by ...
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Recentlegislationrequiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to present economic evaluations when requesting reimbursement decisions will probably have an important impact in the future.
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This new brain death protocol is part ofrecentlegislationon organ donation.
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Furthermore,recentlegislationoffers a hope that assessment and evaluation procedures may play an increasing role in the decision-making process in the not-so-distant future.
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Such a survey would be more appropriate in a follow-up study looking at the effects of therecentlegislation.
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Therecentlegislationpromoting collaboration and downplaying competition seems to move in this direction.
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Instead, they cover the reauthorizations up to 1988 (chap. 5), erroneously listing this as the mostrecentlegislation.
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The attempted writing out of difference and dissent from this 'national' project has directly affected the perception of the excavations, particularly in the light ofrecentlegislation.
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We all know that the effect ofrecentlegislationhas been to oblige more and more people to buy houses.
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Is it not a fact that increased convictions for drunkenness have synchronised with the decrease of public-houses underrecentlegislation?
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Very many of the proposals cut acrossrecentlegislation, especially in regard to education.
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Consensus is certainly important in some respects, but let us remember the two biggest failures ofrecentlegislation.
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Recentlegislationhas strengthened the law against harassment and illegal eviction.
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We intend to reimburse authorities for all reasonable additional administrative costs incurred by them as a result of therecentlegislation.
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We have done something about it in therecentlegislation.
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I am examining the possibility of bringing these powers into line with morerecentlegislation.
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The need to phase the increase in the work load of the bodies concerned in operating the provisions ofrecentlegislation.
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So even the draftsmen of therecentlegislationrecognises that there is a sense in which "airport" should be used in legislation of this kind.
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There is coupled with that therecentlegislationon public service pensioners.
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Fourthly, changes in the education structure as a result ofrecentlegislationhave caused problems.
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Recentlegislationdates from 1968 and figures on a strictly comparable basis for years before 1969 are not available.
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