However, the council had no power to initiate legislation.

It had no power to initiate legislation, but could accept or reject the council's legislative proposal only.

"Did Congress lose its power to initiate legislation?"

In addition to this, the Commission should not in any way relinquish its power to initiate legislation.

The National Bank of Ukraine has the power to initiate legislation.

The National Council lost its power to initiate legislation but was still expected to approve decrees from the government.

Nevertheless, if congress has largely surrendered the positive power to initiate legislation to the executive, it remains a formidable negative force.

There is therefore an urgent need for the new Commission, as the only European institution with the power to initiate legislation, to become active.

Through his reforms to the Plebeian Council, tribunes lost the power to initiate legislation.

Republicans campaigning for control of New Jersey's Legislature in 1991 promised to give the public the power to initiate legislation.

Today, I heard that the Commission was going to use its power to initiate legislation, whether on the issue of own resources, or for the multiannual framework.

It is a shame that it does not condemn the fact that the European Commission alone has the power to initiate legislation.

An alternative viewpoint on the Commission states that the policy areas in which it has power to initiate legislation are ill suited to an institution subject to electoral pressures.

However, it removed some of the General Assembly's power to initiate legislation and provided for automatic approval of bills under certain conditions if the legislature failed to act.

The Commission, with its exclusive power to initiate legislation, is an important instrument of European lawmaking, for which the Council together with this House are ultimately responsible.

The Parliament can claim credit for becoming a laboratory for Britain to experiment with proportional representation voting, committees with the power to initiate legislation and coalition government.

Regrettably, the European Parliament does not have full powers to initiate legislation, it has only powers of codecision, though these were extended at the recent Amsterdam summit.

Once again, the assembly sought to enlarge its role and insisted that it be granted to power to initiate legislation, as it demanded when it rejected the Frame of 1682.

The Constitution also stipulates that the executive and the National Assembly share the power to initiate legislation, but the pertinent article appears in the chapter dealing with executive-not legislative-responsibilities.

But according to Stuart E. Eizenstat, his domestic policy chief, the Carter White House really lost its power to initiate legislation when its public opinion rating plummeted in mid-1979.

It must consider all national bills, and also has the power to initiate legislation in the functional areas where Parliament and the provincial legislatures have concurrent legislative power ("Schedule 4 areas").

It is the more powerful of the two chambers; it alone has the power to initiate legislation (the Senate, by contrast, can amend or veto most legislation, but cannot initiate it).

A landslide in the vote next February bringing Mr. Nouri back to national office as the parliamentary speaker, with wide powers to initiate legislation and constitutional reforms, could be a watershed for the conservatives.

The new frame significantly changed the allocation of political power within the legislature by conferring upon the assembly the power to initiate legislation, sit on its own adjournment and judge the qualifications of its members.

Although the Emir maintains the final word on most government policies, the National Assembly plays a real role in decision making, with powers to initiate legislation, question government ministers, and express lack of confidence in individual ministers.