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Example sentences for: legislate

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Anti-abortion Congressman Tony Hall (D-Ohio) points to the deep cuts in international family planning and the angry battle going on around him and reflects, "In our effort to legislate around here, sometimes we become purists, and we hurt the people we are trying to help."
At a Senate hearing, Republican senators worried that a ban on human-cloning research might prevent lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and researchers and ethicists said there is no need to legislate hastily, since it will take a while to refine the sheep-cloning technique to work in humans.
They tried to legislate recovery--passing a rule requiring each couple to go out at least twice a month.
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While neither the US nor the UK has yet to legislate a remedy for this prima facie paradoxical state of affairs, both appear ready to address the issue systematically, and—more significantly—with the input of a wide range of affected constituents: scientists, publishers, librarians, patient advocates, text-miners, entrepreneurs, and more.