legislature
Example Sentences
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Jeri, the former speaker of the country's legislature, is not running for president.
From Barron's
Repealing it requires that the legislature pass two identical resolutions to amend the Constitution in successive sessions separated by an election and, ultimately, voter approval in a statewide referendum.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of mourners gathered for a moment of silence in Tumbler Ridge's main square and outside the British Columbia legislature in Victoria.
From BBC
That substantial margin of victory gives Takaichi’s administration overwhelming control over Japan’s legislature.
Mr. Pinsker reminds us that Lincoln also hand-picked the Republican candidates for state legislature that year—knowing that senators of the day were elected by the legislature, not a direct vote of the people.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
