Example Sentences

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The Supreme Court said that members of the FTC, as this quasi-legislative and judicial agency, had certain protections against firing for that particular reason.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Bern's lawyer Alain Chablais told the court in opening remarks that any prescriptive measures issued by the court would represent an overreach, giving it a "quasi-legislative" role.

From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2023

“Foundational aspects of your request are part of the State Water Board’s quasi-legislative action to update the Bay-Delta Plan,” the board wrote in its decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2022

“Rulemaking is a better, more democratic, more stable, more transparent, and more modern path for quasi-legislative enactments,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2017

And provided that we always bear in mind that this source of law operates only through a quasi-legislative activity, there is no obstacle to speaking, in a borrowed sense, of international 'legislation'.

From The Future of International Law by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)