What's the difference between stagehouse and statehouse?
Stagehouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
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Statehouse
Definition:
(n.) The building in which a State legislature holds its sessions; a State capitol.
Example Sentences:
(1) As long as politicians like McConnell, Cuomo and Faulconer see a closed-door ballroom of billionaires as their base, they aren’t likely to vote to raise the minimum wage, in Congress or in the statehouses, on the left side of the aisle or the right.
(2) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(3) One atop the statehouse, and about three or four out of the statehouse.
(4) It flew over the statehouse dome from 1962 until 2000, when it was moved to its current location at a civil war memorial on the building grounds.
(5) South Carolina's Confederate flag comes down as history of hate meets modernity Read more The Confederate flag was removed from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds on Friday after decades of protest against the symbol came to a head following the killing of nine black people in a church in Charleston.
(6) It’s far too tempting to assume that nothing in Washington – or anywhere else for that matter, from the courthouse in Louisville to the statehouse in Carson City – gets decided on the merits, but instead for other, less principled reasons.
(7) Indiana enacts religion bill some say discriminates against gay people Read more Hundreds of people gathered outside the Indiana Statehouse on Saturday, to rally against a new law that opponents say could sanction discrimination against gay people.
(8) It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency – and it is in our power to do something about it.” Comey’s words came on the same day a Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse, a decision that was prompted by the church shootings.
(9) The swift negotiations inside the statehouse nextdoor represent the culmination of decades of activism – the flag was first flown above the statehouse dome in 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement.
(10) The statehouse square sits at the center of the city’s downtown, with the Capitol building surrounded by a green park, and beyond that modern buildings.
(11) So all you other states with Prop 187-inspired laws, or towns inspired to pick up where the statehouses left off?
(12) Bree Newsome, the activist who was arrested for taking down the flag late last month, tweeted: “At what point do we ask what this stubborn refusal to remove the flag indicates about racism in US government?” The removal of the most prominent flag, at the statehouse in Columbia, comes less than a month after 21-year-old Dylann Roof gunned down nine black people during a Bible study class two hours south, in Charleston.
(13) He described how southerners who seek to honor the memory of their ancestors could still ask for the flag to be removed from the statehouse, where it was first flown in 1962 in order to signal resistance to the forced desegregation of southern schools and public places.
(14) As the nation's statehouses have splintered off from the on-year electorate, states such as Florida (really, especially Florida) serve up the best examples for how our "laboratories of democracy" have become playgrounds for mad scientists – particularly, the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council.
(15) One of the victims, Clementa Pinckney, worked inside the statehouse building as a senator.
(16) The battle flag of the former American Confederacy will stop flying at South Carolina’s statehouse on Friday, 23 days after a mass shooting at one of the state’s emblematic black churches – and 150 years after the south lost a civil war fought largely over slavery, and for which the flag’s endurance has remained a lasting symbol of racism.
(17) In 2011, Walker succeeded in stripping collective bargaining rights from state employees, in a policy battle that drew thousands of protesters to the Wisconsin statehouse and established the governor as a conservative star.
(18) Anti-discrimination protesters lined up to enter the house chamber in Little Rock for the vote, and more than a hundred rallied outside the statehouse earlier in the day.
(19) It was this mass killing, born out of Roof’s alleged desire to “start a race war”, that thrust the issue of the Confederate flag still flying on the South Carolina statehouse grounds back into the spotlight.
(20) However, reproductive rights groups including the Planned Parenthood Action Fund are using the momentum to drive more rallies to the Texas statehouse on Monday.