legislate

The government says it is proposing to legislate because existing domestic abuse or coercive control laws do not address "the unique nature of abusive conversion practices".

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

If bondholders are going to legislate good borrower behavior via debt contracts, why stop at transparency?

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

They’ve packed town halls, prompted state and local political leaders to legislate limits on their growth or even to ban them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

“You can’t legislate that, you can’t mandate it, but I think if you ask people, ‘Could we be better?’—I think you won’t get a better result unless you make the ask.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

“The lawgivers of antiquity...legislated for single cities,” Adams observed, but “who can legislate for 20 or 30 states, each of which is greater than Greece or Rome at those times?”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

It means that Scotland is currently without any interim targets for cutting emissions until it legislates to replace them with five-yearly carbon budgets.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

The General Assembly legislates for a narrowly politically divided state of some 8.7 million people and considers thousands of bills in sessions scheduled for at most 60 days in even-numbered years, less in odd-numbered years.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

First, it legislates more than mere time, place and manner restrictions.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023

The blueprint set during the 1994 offseason continues to serve as a model for how the league legislates on-field action.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2014

It solemnly legislates that one British plough may be imported; and graciously permits its subjects, in a land where there are no mechanics, to make as many additional ploughs as they need.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

It was legislated to continue for at least three years, through 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The White House’s plan “may represent a policy opening” that “could evolve into a legislated, progressive, and secure universal system,” said Wealth Equity Lab’s Ghilarducci in the statement.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The government has legislated that health insurers must make money.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

Believing that slavery could only be legislated out of existence state by state, Clay campaigned for a convention to rewrite Kentucky’s constitution to set slavery on a course toward extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The Irish government has warned that it is considering legislating in the absence of an EU decision.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

Californians are accustomed to legislating by the ballot and often face a list of propositions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

This week marks the eighth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act and allowed states to begin legislating sports betting.

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026

WSJ Analysis The U.S. plan rests on a series of promises by Russia, including legislating in its parliament a policy of non-aggression towards Europe and Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

I accepted the new position at the hospital; Barack continued teaching and legislating.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama