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The state legislature passed a law to increase the minimum wage, but the governor vetoed it while claiming it would reduce the number of entry-level jobs for young people.legislature = elected body that makes laws
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She is running for the state legislature.
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Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. (source)legislature = a group of elected representatives who create laws
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The Alabama Legislature was in session in Montgomery at this time. (source)Legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
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Must the citizen even for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? (source)legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. (source)legislatures = elected government representatives
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Fresh violence broke out yesterday in Port Ticonderoga, a continuation of the week's turmoil in connection with the closure, strike and lockout at Chase and Sons Industries Ltd. Police forces proving outnumbered and reinforcements having been requested by the provincial legislature, the Prime Minister authorized intervention in the interests of public safety by a detachment of the Royal Canadian Regiment, which arrived at two o'clock in the afternoon.† (source)legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
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The federal laws have been widely duplicated by state legislatures.† (source)legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
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The legislators debating the merits of payday lending didn't mention situations like that.† (source)
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It's just the way we are," says Jorge Zarif Zetuna Curioca, a legislator from Ixtepec.† (source)legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws
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We were denied funding from the state legislature, which we needed to get federal matching dollars.† (source)legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
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Elections to regional legislatures would take place at the same time as national elections, and the regional bodies could draw up their own constitutions consistent with the national constitution.† (source)legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
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He made himself well known among the Washington elite, mixing with legislators at building cocktail parties, playing golf at the Army Navy Country Club, socializing with police officers and State Department officials, and volunteering to serve as chauffeur after parties.† (source)
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Even a prominent former Louisiana legislator, who wanted to help me while I was in school, was one of my clients.† (source)legislator = an elected government representative who (with fellow representatives) has the power to create laws
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But the test was not actually so easy as I thought it would be, with a lot more questions about arcane matters of New York State government than I'd anticipated (how many months of the year was the legislature in Albany in session?† (source)legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
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The English-Only movement continued the old censorship we had felt on the school playgrounds, but now the game had moved into the state legislatures.† (source)legislatures = groups of government representatives that have the power to create laws
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