When made by Congress, a majority of both houses makes it binding much like regular legislation.

When the centre of the Empire was moved to the Greek East in the 4th century, many legal concepts of Greek origin appeared in the official Roman legislation.

When the opposition controls the National Assembly ( and thus government funding and most legislation ), the President is in effect forced to choose a Prime Minister from the opposition ; in such cases, known as cohabitation, the government controls internal state policy, with the President restricted largely to foreign affairs.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

When asked how this proposed legislation was different from the 1996 Line-Item Veto Act that the United States Supreme Court had declared illegal, Bolten said that whereas the former act granted unilateral authority to the Executive to disallow specific spending line items, the new proposal would seek Congressional approval of such line-item vetoes.

When the U. S. Representatives and Senators from the former Confederate states reached Washington, they set as a priority the creation of a statute prohibiting any future President or Congress from directing, by military order or federal legislation, the imposition of federal troops in any U. S. state.

When Fianna Fáil was elected to power the following year this legislation was revoked and the prisoners were freed.

When King Michael attempted to force Groza's resignation by refusing to sign any legislation (" the royal strike "), Groza enacted laws without Michael's signature.

When Washington became a state in 1889, Cheney was able to obtain legislation establishing one of the state normal schools, mandatory under the Enabling Act, in Cheney.

When a call is placed to 911, the source of the call is recorded ( this is allowed by special privacy legislation ).

When Casley declared himself " Prince ", the administration board clause lost effect and the Hutt River Principality became a benevolent absolute monarchy, with a legislation committee to draft new legislation.

When Chase and J. P. Morgan lobbied to change the final legislation to permit them to become woofies, they complained only Goldman Sachs and “ a few others ” could qualify as a woofie.

When the Puritans banned Christmas celebrations in the 17th century, they also passed specific legislation to outlaw such pies, calling them " Idolaterie in crust ".

When pressed by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on opponents of Health Care Reform's claim that the legislation includes " death panels " for the elderly, Blackburn would not reject this assertion although nonpartisan FactCheck. org considers it incorrect.

When considering the consequences which are to be imposed on those involved in the activities forming the subject matter of the common law or legislation, governments and judges have a choice:

When the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees ( Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, known as the pentarchy ), under the auspices of a single universal empire, was formulated in the legislation of Emperor Justinian I ( 527-565 ), especially in his Novella 131, and received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo ( 692 ), the name " patriarch " became the official one for the Bishops of these sees, and the title " Exarch " remained the proper style of the metropolitans who ruled over the three remaining ( political ) dioceses of Diocletian's division of the Eastern Prefecture, namely the Exarchs of Asia ( at Ephesus ), of Cappadocia and Pontus ( at Caesarea ), and of Thrace ( at Heraclea Sintica ).

When provincial legislation intrudes deeply into fundamental freedoms of speech, religion, association or assembly, the provincial legislature is creating criminal legislation, which under the distribution of powers is reserved exclusively to the Parliament of Canada by section 91 ( 27 ) of the Constitution Act, 1867.

When Peace River MLA William Archibald Rae introduced legislation to allow Imperial Oil to build a pipeline in the province, UFA President Henry Wise Wood sent Stewart a telegram of protest, as he believed that pipelines should be common carriers ; Stewart read it in the legislature, and Rae's bill was withdrawn.

When in 1814 he re-entered the public service, it was only as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, but his influence was from this time very great in the commercial and financial legislation of the country.

# When the UK Parliament is considering legislation extending only ( or having provisions extending only ) to England and Wales, and the Scottish Parliament, being in agreement with those provisions, wishes for the UK Parliament to extend them to Scotland.

# When Westminster is considering legislation applying to Scotland but which relates to both devolved and reserved matters, where it would otherwise be necessary for the Scottish Parliament to legislate to complete the jigsaw.

When the National Party won the 1948 election in South Africa and subsequently introduced apartheid legislation, these laws also extended into South-West Africa which was the de facto fifth province of South Africa.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.