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Ms Sturgeon said the government had legislated to end early automatic release in 2016, but said it was important to keep arrangements under review.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told BBC Newsnight that though her country had legislated 1.5C as its target, it needed to do more to support global climate change policy.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2021

Speaking during the main debate, she said she understood concerns over the warrant but told the House she had legislated to make it "better and safer".

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2014

They had legislated without warrant, had detained free persons in bondage, levied illegal duties and imposed unconstitutional restrictions, and had inflicted cruel punishments for crimes invented by themselves.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

It was because the Parliament of the Restoration had legislated in insolent defiance of the sense of the nation that the Parliament of the Revolution had to abase itself before the mob.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron