The vast majority of laws are now subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, which works on the principle that consent from both the Council and Parliament are required before a law may be adopted.

It now forms part of the legislative programme of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement.

Though he remains the head of state, some of his former power is now devolved to several advisory and legislative bodies.

" The argument was that the theory of the descent of man from a lower order of animals was now established by the preponderance of scientific thought, and that the prohibition of the teaching of such theory was a violation of the legislative duty to cherish science.

In addition, the NPC now functions as a forum in which legislative proposals are drafted and debated with input from different parts of the government and outside technical experts.

The new constitution reduced the role of the legislative branch ( which now did not have the right of initiative ), and expanded the powers of the Executive, which was now known as the Staatsbewind ( Regency of State ).

The Social Security Act,, now codified as, was a legislative act which created the Social Security system in the United States.

These other votes – the words are to be understood meaning votes on legislative issues – are, by now, common practice on the level of the Länder.

The legislative requirements have been increased from the original requirements in recent times, to the point where existing treatments can now fail to meet the most recent design requirements.

East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX ( now Verizon ), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a legislative meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts.

Brown, former Vice-President of Southern Railway ( now Norfolk Southern ); political legend in South Carolina legislative government

His suspicions had been confirmed: it seemed to him that George III had personally scuppered both the Rockingham-Shelburne and Fox-North governments, interfered in the legislative process and now dissolved Parliament when its composition inconvenienced him.

On 6 June 1809, a new constitution was adopted, and while the king still appointed the members of the council, now called " Statsrådet " ( the Council of State ), the legislative powers of government were once again shared with the Estates.

As a result of these legislative changes, the LWCB now has one member appointed by Canada, two appointed by Ontario, and one appointed by Manitoba.

In 1857 he was elected into the legislative branch ( Generalrat ) of the city of Neuchâtel for the radical party, which is now the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.

The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( now known as Mediawatch-UK ) was formally launched to succeed the CUTV campaign in November 1965, replacing what they themselves perceived as CUTV's negativity with an active campaign for legislative change.

For the 2010 legislative session, Jan Jones ( who lives in the new city of Milton, named for the former county ) is now the speaker pro tempore of the Georgia House, and is expected to make a strong push for the new county.

Colonists outside Massachusetts feared that their governments could now also be changed by the legislative fiat of Parliament.

The Carr home was on Birdcage Walk, ( now Government Street ) in the James Bay district of Victoria, a short distance from the legislative buildings ( nicknamed the ' Birdcages ') and the town itself.

The choice between the negligence principle ( defendants should be liable only if they were at fault ) and the strict liability principle ( defendants should be liable even if blameless ), he now insisted, “ is a concealed, half conscious battle on the question of legislative policy, and if any one thinks that it can be settled deductively, or once for all, I only can say that I think he is theoretically wrong, and that I am certain that his conclusion will not be accepted in practice .” Among the policy questions upon which the choice turned was the degree to which the losses associated with the myriad injuries caused by modern industries (“ railroads, factories, and the like ”) should be borne by the public at large ( through increased prices for the goods and services provided by those industries ).

The new constitution required the state to grant suffrage to the emancipated slaves, now called Freedmen ; it reapportioned the legislative districts to reflect the new status of freedmen as citizens, counting them as full members of the population.

Vancouver Sun legislative columnist Vaughn Palmer commented at the time on the irony of Kelowna, centre of the Bennett dynasty from 1952 to 1986, now being represented by two fringe party MLAs: Serwa and Progressive Democratic Alliance MLA Judi Tyabji.

Because of repeated complaints from consumers, and legislative actions at the state and federal level, companies are now required to submit any verbal request for change of services to a third-party verification services.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

What Gabriel was being asked to do now, however, was to re-examine all his basic assumptions, make value-judgments on them, and give them new and different powers in his mind to govern his motives.

Andrew, who was now with Saint Louis, interpreted David's message to the King, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Eljigidei, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers of Syria.

This is less drastic than cutting diplomatic relations completely, and the mission will still continue operating more or less normally, but it will now be headed by a chargé d ' affaires ( usually the deputy chief of mission ) who may have limited powers.

On 10 June 1789, Abbé Sieyès moved that the Third Estate, now meeting as the Communes ( English: " Commons "), proceed with verification of its own powers and invite the other two estates to take part, but not to wait for them.

He wrote that " all of the democratic circles of America and of Europe, especially those of the Italian centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to place the blame on Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan ".

Kelly, at the very peak of his creative powers, now made what in retrospect is seen as a serious mistake.

The following year, a conference was held in which all of the European powers except Austria-Hungary ( by now little more than a German satellite ) sided with France.

The Anglo-Saxons, a collection of various Germanic peoples, established several kingdoms that became the primary powers in what is now England and parts of southern Scotland.

The clothes or strips of cloth are brought inside, and believed to now have powers of healing and protection.

He joined a new team of X-Men, consisting of Angel, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Chamber, he was using his powers in a whole new way now, he was just channeling it and not turning his body into ice.

Originally, Iceman's own body temperature would lower dramatically when his powers were active, reaching within a few tenths of a second ( now his body usually converts to organic ice ; see below ).

Executive powers are now exercised by a Chief Minister and nine ministers, known collectively as the Council of Ministers responsible to the States Assembly.

Not in increasing the powers of the State, but in resorting to free organization and free federation in all those branches which are now considered as attributes of the State.

With the Ottoman Turks blockading sea-lanes to the East and South, the European powers were driven to find another way to the ancient silk and spice routes, now under Ottoman control.

With the two powers now embroiled in the conflict, tensions quickly escalated into a full-scale war between Carthage and Rome for the control of Sicily.

The prosperity of Zubarah, which is now in modern Qatar, had also brought it to the attention of the two main powers at the time, Persia and the Oman, which were presumably sympathetic to Sheikh Nasr ’ s ambitions.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

The residual constitutional powers retained by the Westminster parliament have now largely been superseded by subsequent legislation.

Since 1931, over a dozen new Commonwealth realms have been created, all of which now hold the same powers as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand over matters of change to the Monarchy ( Ireland and South Africa are now republics, and Newfoundland is part of Canada ).

They were once used to directly drive mechanical devices such as ships ' propellers ( for example the Turbinia, the first turbine-powered steam launch ,) but most such applications now use reduction gears or an intermediate electrical step, where the turbine is used to generate electricity, which then powers an electric motor connected to the mechanical load.