"legislature" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The military won a victory later in the session today when the legislature defeated a proposal to deny soldiers based in the republic the right to vote in local elections.
- In one instance, the legislature defeated a plan to stiffen sentences for first-time drug offenders after the commission determined that it would require 1,300 new prison beds and a $32 million annual operating budget.
- Since then, he said, the legislature has defeated three attempts by the Trial Lawyers Association to remove municipality liability immunity from the Recreational Land Use Act.
- The legislature defeated the amendment with a 196 to 73 vote, but the Kensington Society persisted.
- House Speaker James A. Amann, a Democrat, said on Tuesday, "We certainly don't agree with the Supreme Court," but he could not explain why the legislature had defeated three Republican proposals to restrict the ability of municipalities from taking property for private development.
- Nebraska's unicameral legislature defeated an amendment that would have substituted "intact dilation and extraction" for "partial-birth abortion."
- The Ugandan legislature defeated the motion to criminalise homosexuality.
- The legislature twice defeated a bill that would have required public school students to recite in class each day a brief passage from the Declaration.
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