"legislature" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A bill passed this spring by the same Democrat-controlled Legislature would have allowed present owners to keep and register their weapons.
- The state's new Republican Governor, George F. Allen, is squabbling with the Democrat-controlled Legislature over whether to try to entice Disney by subsidizing some of the park's development costs, like highway construction and staff training.
- IT was probably more luck than calculation that Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the Democrat-controlled Legislature wound up playing the "good cop, bad cop" routine during the recent contract negotiations with the largest group of state employees.
- The governor and the Democrat-controlled Legislature are fighting over whether to increase "sin" taxes on alcohol and cigarettes or raise taxes on the wealthiest people - the so-called "millionaire's tax."
- If he ran again, he said, the Democrat-controlled Legislature might be "reluctant to cooperate" with him.
- 'They Worked With Weicker' "Whoever is running for the Democratic Party has to run on the record of the Democrat-controlled Legislature," said Mr. Rowland's press secretary, Richard Slawsky.
- Last year, the Democrat-controlled Legislature passed a law reshaping the welfare system in Massachusetts.
- A10 Redrawing a Political Map California's Democrat-controlled Legislature proposed a new map for the state's 53 Congressional districts that all but guaranteed a Democratic majority in the delegation for perhaps the next decade.
- Last week, the Democrat-controlled Legislature in Trenton turned the state into something of a test case for how an electorate, which supported the anti-tax campaigns of Ronald Reagan in the 1980's, will respond to new taxes.
- "Can you imagine the logic of allowing this bond issue to go through a Democrat-controlled Legislature that was just rejected by the people of the state of New Jersey?"
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.