What's the difference between capitol and legislature?

Capitol


Definition:

  • () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
  • () The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (2) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (3) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
  • (4) Amid Republican disarray, Democrats on Wednesday marked the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act on the East Steps of the Capitol.
  • (5) The typical balance of power on Capitol Hill over surveillance is such that opponents of renewing Section 702 face strong political headwinds.
  • (6) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
  • (7) April 17, 2013 5.43pm BST A Capitol police spokesperson on the situations in Russell and Hart senate office buildings: "All I can tell you right now is we're investigating suspicious envelopes in both."
  • (8) The doctor who carried out Wood’s autopsy told the Arizona Capitol Times the intravenous lines were placed correctly – unlike in Lockett’s case, according to reports.
  • (9) Supporters of same-sex marriage planned a rally at the Utah state capitol on Friday afternoon.
  • (10) The flag that I’m talking about is the one that was put on the state capitol dome in 1962 in response to desegregation.
  • (11) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
  • (12) There’s enough evidence here that cries out for an investigation,” Schumer told reporters on Capitol Hill.
  • (13) Dispute erupts over investigation into alleged Trump-Russia contacts Read more Now the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee has thrown reauthorization into question after extensive leaking about Trump and Russia that the president and his Capitol Hill allies have blamed on the US intelligence community.
  • (14) We want greatness for this country that we love.” But the House speaker, Paul Ryan, the most senior Republican on Capitol Hill, spoke out against the prospect of healthcare cooperation on Thursday.
  • (15) The RIAA's lawsuit was filed on behalf of labels Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records, while the MPAA's lawsuit includes studios Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal, Colombia Pictures and Warner Bros. "When Megaupload.com was shut down in 2012 by U.S. law enforcement, it was by all estimates the largest and most active infringing website targeting creative content in the world," said the MPAA's senior executive vice president and global general counsel Steven Fabrizio, in a statement.
  • (16) The speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case.
  • (17) The US National Security Agency faces at least a temporary lapse in its authority to collect bulk American phone records amid a standoff on Capitol Hill over renewal of the Patriot Act.
  • (18) As members of Congress lined up to lambast her leadership at a hearing on Capitol Hill, Pierson admitted the gravity of the failure and admitted repeated failings in the performance of the agency in recent years.
  • (19) The president can't simply ram laws through Capitol Hill.
  • (20) In contrast to the major push for new regulations on firearms after 26 children were shot and killed in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, the deaths of nine African American churchgoers during Bible study has not sparked a similar legislative effort on Capitol Hill.

Legislature


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
  • (2) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
  • (3) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
  • (4) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
  • (5) Rajoy’s People’s party (PP) emerged with the most votes in Sunday’s election, taking 123 seats but falling short of a majority in the 350-seat legislature.
  • (6) She concluded that the legislature had not given the corrections department too much power to determine the lethal injection procedures.
  • (7) Scott also released the code to the Parliament Edits bot, allowing similar accounts to be set up for other nation's legislatures.
  • (8) Under the restrictions to the Racial Justice Act introduced by the now Republican-held legislature, death row inmates must now provide more than mere statistical evidence that discrimination took place.
  • (9) In June 2013, a month before the state legislature passed the bill, there were 41 clinics in Texas that provided abortions, according to a study by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Texas.
  • (10) In your case, I am hoping you can respond to the criticisms of your testimony to the NY legislature made by Val Giddings in a recent blog post.
  • (11) Ostensibly, Cook was there to take his place in the Alabama Academy of Honour, a distinction granted by the state legislature to its most accomplished citizens.
  • (12) Beijing has promised universal suffrage for elections for the chief executive in 2017 and for the legislature by 2020.
  • (13) The veteran Republican operative sees a party still dominant in state legislatures and says “the people who focus only on presidential elections are getting distracted”.
  • (14) The Tobruk parliament was Libya’s second elected legislature since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising.
  • (15) Some (even many, or perhaps most) may actually like their national legislature not getting gummed up over every name thrown its way, if they choose to care at all.
  • (16) Across the country motorcycle taxi drivers, cobblers, parking attendants, construction workers and nursery teachers are vying for seats in the country's various legislatures.
  • (17) Republican senators did try a little electronic slight of hand – someone changed the timestamp of the vote as seen on the legislature's website.
  • (18) But their efforts have focused primarily on legislatures at the state level , where lawmakers have been more amenable to passing bills that would close loopholes in the background checks system and prevent individuals convicted of domestic violence from obtaining firearms.
  • (19) He scored a significant victory in the Florida legislature last week when lawmakers approved a measure to allow professional sports franchises in the state to compete for sales tax subsidies to help with construction projects.
  • (20) Another similar bill is passing through the state legislature in Georgia .

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