Sample Sentences forlegislature (editor-reviewed)
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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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We were denied funding from the state legislature, which we needed to get federal matching dollars.† (source)
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The federal laws have been widely duplicated by state legislatures.† (source)
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The legislators debating the merits of payday lending didn't mention situations like that.† (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)
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A group of businessmen from the chamber of commerce had tried to persuade Arthur to run for the Washington state legislature.† (source)
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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)
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Legislators who owe their reputations to the Circle?† (source)
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"A legislator for humanity," Miss Octave said happily, a little like a tyrant.† (source)
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Grimmer had to run an understaffed and underfunded institution and try to keep the whole thing together with spit, baling wire, and nickle-and-dime appropriations from a state legislature who had to go back and face the voters.† (source)
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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)
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