(n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
(n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
(n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
(n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.
(n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
(n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
(n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(4) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(5) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(6) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(7) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
(8) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(9) I hope this congress will show leaders that we must move from understanding the importance of nature to action,” she said.
(10) The Florida senator on Wednesday signed on to legislation that would delay the implementation of the sweeping surveillance reforms passed by Congress under the USA Freedom Act.
(11) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
(12) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(13) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(14) Such briefings for the entire senate are not unprecedented but it is very rare for them to take place in the White House, which does not have large secure facilities for such classified sessions as Congress.
(15) The new Republican Congress also understands how difficult these past six years have been.
(16) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(17) Two other men were shot dead over the weekend, prompting the governing African National Congress (ANC) to warn that Marikana "cannot be allowed to deteriorate into a bastion of lawlessness".
(18) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(19) Women in politics During the 104th session of US Congress , which ran from 1995 to 1997, 50 women were elected into the 435-member House of Representatives and nine into the 100-seat Senate.
(20) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
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 .