legislature
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Like Rauch he will need the backing of 42 MPs in the 83-seat legislature.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The group tried to push the state legislature to adopt bills aimed at stopping steep rent increases and protecting tenants’ rights to organize.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
In the legislature, she said, Hinojosa was among the Democrats who “would listen to the moms and the parents.”
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
The country’s legislature recently expanded anti-money-laundering laws to impose stricter due diligence requirements and push companies to collect more information on their controlling ownership, among other measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
At noon on Monday, August 9, 1920, the Tennessee legislature opened a special session.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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In response, tech executives are clearly realizing that city councils and state legislatures can do a lot to constrain them.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Accreditation determines whether other states will accept a state’s solvency examinations and, in practice, places intense pressure on legislatures to enact specified model laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Local council elections, local and combined-authority mayoral elections, devolved legislatures, European Parliament elections and London Assembly elections were excluded.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
We made ourselves seen and heard, mounting a sustained, affirmative campaign in the states, in the legislatures, and in the courts of law alongside, most crucially, the court of public opinion.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
But he was not a mover-and-shaker, only a draftsman; the words he wrote were merely the lyrical expression of ideas that had been bandied about in the Congress and the various colonial legislatures for years.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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