Legislators were persuaded at the time that cassette recorders would decimate sales of records as friend after friend would then make copies of only one purchased album.

Legislators, not on the committee where the bill received its public hearing, may only offer amendments to the bill at this stage.

Legislators pose as Governor Martin O ' Malley | O ' Malley signs a bill into law at a signing ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland | Annapolis, Maryland, on May 13, 2008.

Legislators say is introduced.

Legislators representing Atlanta and southwestern Fulton County, who feared tax revenue that would be lost from incorporation, blocked the bills using the procedural requirement that all local legislation be approved first by a delegation of representatives from the affected area.

These delegates debate their own bills, and can also serve as Pages to the Legislators.

The County is divided into five districts with three Legislators from each district.

Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012 are restricted by the previous term limits, approved in 1990, which limited legislators to three terms in the State Assembly and two terms in the State Senate.

Legislators are one such group, and state legislators have major responsibility for educational legislation.

Legislators who logroll within a small body, for example, the US House or Senate, have incentive to honor their IOU votes because they cannot have their reputations tainted if they wish to be effective politicians ( Holcombe 2006 ).

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

Legislators from the northern counties will often reflexively oppose what is seen as " meddling " from the majority in the south, and the legislators from the south have been too divided on the issue to push through a state-wide ban.

Greens, Libertarians and others have elected state Legislators and local officials.

The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what the positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making laws, and place it it in other hands.

Legislators and voters have acknowledged the inadequacy of California's historically underfunded mental health system to care for the state's residents, especially those with serious mental illness, over the past few decades.

Legislators also receive mileage for " actual daily attendance on legislative days, but not after the legislature shall have been in session for 45 legislative days or after the first day of July following the annual assembly of the legislature.

Legislators, however, have been sparing to invoke it.

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators ( NCOIL ) also works to harmonize the different state laws.

Legislators usually enact such laws when they wish to impose penalties that fall outside the framework specified by each class.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

Legislators develop laws and statutes as part of deliberative assemblies.

Legislators are attempting to clarify the laws that govern the fate of a person in Schiavo's position, and in some cases make living wills more available.

Legislators then changed the definitions to target size ( barrel lengths under 3 inches ), materials ( such as zinc ), low-cost manufacturing techniques ( e. g., density requirements that specifically ban inexpensive powder cast metals ), redundant safety requirements ( trigger and / or main-spring locks, sizes too large for a child to use, drop tests ), and " quality ", " reliability ", and " accuracy " ( which are often left undefined ).

Legislators also enacted the state's first income tax during the session.

Prentiss and Shirley Smith were chosen to serve on the executive committee of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators during the organizations conference in Philadelphia.

Legislators who last year opposed placing aged-care under the social security system criticized the President's plan.

Legislators always get restless for a special session ( whether for the companionship or the $22.50 per diem is not certain ) and if they start agitating.

Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

" Legislators and others mounted challenges in the 1960s.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators is the legislative, policy-making branch of Westchester County.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

Allegany County Government is of the Legislature style and is represented by 15 County Legislators.

Legislative authority is vested in the county Board of Legislators which consists of 15 members each elected from single member districts.

* Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U. S. Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 ( Texas A.

Legislators later stiffened penalties for leaving the scene of an accident.

Legislators created these agencies to allow experts in the industry to focus their attention on the issue.

Legislators included a classified annex to the Defense Appropriations Act that preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies.

Legislators were unnerved by the campaign, and the outcome remained uncertain.

But it at least offered him a chance for living.

sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.

Not without a face-saving respite of at least a few minutes.

It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Or at least not to Joyce.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.