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How to use the word legislated in a Sentence?

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I see things changing, definitely, but there is a really frustrating lag between what AI is capable of and what it's legislated for.

Sasha Luccioni

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think that culture is isolated in law enforcement, and not in Service Employees International unions. That's part of American culture : no one wants to be rat, but I would say union police officers today have a choice -- change their culture or watch their rights get legislated out of existence.

John Paul Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But I would say union police officers today have a choice -- change their culture or watch their rights get legislated out of existence, that's a choice Service Employees International unions have to make. Our group has made the choice that we want to make efforts to change the culture.

John Paul Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We believe the previously legislated labour market and agricultural reforms are potentially positive for the medium-term growth outlook, though they clearly face implementation risks, signs of a weaker-than-anticipated economic recovery or a reassessment of medium-term growth potential would make it more challenging to achieve a downward trend in the debt ratio under our forecasts and add to pressure on the rating.

Jeremy Zook

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I wish they would talk, but I think it's deeper than that, tell me that there was a time that Leader McConnell actually legislated, and Leader McConnell debated, and Leader McConnell offered amendments, and Leader McConnell considered -- sometimes reconsider -- Leader McConnell assumptions after hearing the arguments of people who disagree with Leader McConnell.

John Kennedy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With what's going on in and around this city I sometimes wonder if this is going to get across the final hurdle, even though the government has legislated to do it.

Tim Clark

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is very important to be pro-active... before you get badly legislated.

Van Boxmeer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While we certainly want to foster that engagement, I think you can all understand that real, long-term sustainable answers are not going to be legislated from Washington.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we now legislated in a way that chose not to permit same-sex marriage in Chihuahua, we would be going against a national law and it would be a problem.

Cesar Augusto Pacheco

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

Ulysses S. Grant

added by anonymous
10 years ago

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Dwight D Eisenhower

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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