(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 .
Prorogation
Definition:
(n.) The act of counting in duration; prolongation.
(n.) The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Constitutional expert, Professor Anne Twomey, told Guardian Australia prorogation terminates the existing session of parliament which wipes clean the notice paper.
(2) Although prorogation technically terminates the progress of bills, under Senate standing orders they can be reintroduced so the government can pick up where it left off on the ABCC bill and registered organisations bill.
(3) That advice said it was the attorney general’s opinion prorogation was “soundly based in constitutional law and well-supported by a large and uniform body of constitutional precedents”.
(4) Labor has raised concerns that prorogation of parliament may interfere with the work of 70 ongoing Senate inquiries and suggested it could filibuster extra sittings of parliament as members have a right of reply to the governor general’s speech which open the new session of parliament.
(5) Government whips in both houses have to reach deals on which parts of the government programme, bill by bill, can reach the statute book before the prorogation of parliament and the election.
(6) Prorogation and recall of parliament has occurred 28 times since federation but not once since 1977.
(7) University of Queensland’s Professor Graeme Orr said prorogation was “abnormal but legal” and a court case challenging the move was very unlikely.
(8) Brandis included a research paper under his signature which showed prorogation and recall of parliament for an earlier sitting had occurred 28 times since federation.
(9) Given that that concludes the substantive work of the committee in this parliament, and that the committee has no further formal meetings scheduled before the prorogation of parliament, the committee decided that there was therefore no need for it to elect a new chairman for the remaining few weeks.
(10) Yesterday, the government abandoned much of its existing legislative programme as it scrambled to get on to a full election footing by tomorrow's prorogation.
(11) The paper noted although prorogation wipes bills from the notice paper, standing orders allowed them to be restored and “cleansing the notice paper has no effect” on the ability to use bills as a double-dissolution trigger.