Conservative critics say legislators and other elected leaders are the only ones who should make policy.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Upon his return, he established this school at Athens he called the Academy, "Academy" for the training of philosophers, statesmen, and legislators.

在归来之后,他在雅典建立了他的学院，称为,用以训练哲学家，政治家及立法委员。

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Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.

边沁说，应最大化幸福，或更精确来说，最大化功利,功利最大化原则，不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。

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Legislators on Capitol Hill are also looking at new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Are the philosophers or are the poets you might say the true legislators for mankind ?! if you want to use Shelley's dictum?

是哲学家或是诗学家,或者你可以说，人类的真正立法者,如果你想要借用雪莱名言的话？

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That recommendation has the backing of Republican legislators like Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who also appeared on Fox News Sunday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

And so we should base morality, whether we're thinking about what to do in our own lives or whether as legislators or citizens, we're thinking about what the laws should be.

所以我们应以道德为基准，不管是在考虑个人行为时,还是作为立法者或普通公民，考虑如何立法时。

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The man known as one of the most effective legislators in Senate history died of brain cancer Tuesday at the age of 77.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"A number of the Democrats, who voted for it,particularly from agricultural districts, about 38 legislators, have suggested that today might view that differently."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But 107 legislators voted against Mr.Orban, while 18 others did not take part in the vote.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

The top legislators said afterward that health reform still has strong support on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

The original bill allocated but legislators decided to raise the amount to $50 million after hearing the U.S.Congress voted to set aside $50 million for broadcasting to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But what the White House sees as a necessary,thoughtful process to arrive at the best-possible decision on an eight-year conflict is seen as dangerous "dithering" by Republican legislators.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Some U.S.legislators are demanding answers about why Hasan's intercepted communications with the radical cleric did not prompt wider scrutiny of the psychiatrist's actions or intervention that could have prevented the attack.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Carstairs also mentioned the cases of elected legislators in Burma who have been in prison or otherwise harassed for years, and of several members of Parliament in Zimbabwe who have suffered violence and whose basic rights have been violated.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09