How to Use legislative assembly in a Sentence
legislative assembly
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And this is an amendment that requires the support of the two houses of the federal parliament and the legislative assemblies of at least two-thirds of the states.
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Yonatan Fessha,
Quartz Africa,
31 July 2019
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In Old English, a moot (or mot, or gemot) was a judicial or legislative assembly.
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Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Nov. 2021
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Morales, who is the key link between Alvarado and the legislative assembly, resigned after being grilled by that body over the creation of the data unit.
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Washington Post,
4 Mar. 2020
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The law passed by El Salvador’s legislative assembly makes no mention of mining.
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Washington Post,
12 June 2021
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Trump at Tuesday's gathering in Virginia gave a scripted speech at the site of the first legislative assembly in Jamestown after touring the Jamestown church and a mock 1619 village.
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NBC News,
30 July 2019
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The law was approved with 67 votes in favor, according to a tweet by the legislative assembly’s official account.
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Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN,
27 Mar. 2022
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Morales noted that the legislative assembly was required by law to vote on his resignation.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2019
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Only 14 out of the 33 legislative assembly seats are directly elected, the rest being doled out to interest groups.
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The Economist,
22 Aug. 2019
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Around that time, the legislative assembly of Puerto Rico passed Act 22, which created a tax haven for rich Americans, who started moving in.
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Graciela Mochkofsky,
The New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2022
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He has been accused of consolidating power, and marching troops into the legislative assembly to get a bill passed among other things.
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Roger Huang,
Forbes,
27 June 2021
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Supporters hope to bring a vote before the legislative Assembly’s term finishes at the end of April, and before the new, more conservative Assembly that was elected last month is seated.
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Elisabeth Malkin,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2018
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Elections to the legislative assembly have not been held since, and top political leaders are frequently detained.
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Washington Post,
23 Jan. 2022
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Owners unable to look after their old elephants can also hand them over for a nominal fee, Kerala forests and wildlife minister, K Raju, told the state legislative assembly.
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Sangeeta Tanwar,
Quartz India,
13 June 2019
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The convening of a legislative assembly in 1619 formed the basis of today’s representative system of government in the United States.
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Washington Post,
29 July 2019
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The statement came in response to an earlier plea from the Framework calling on the parliament to convene, a move al-Sadr's supporters prevented by storming the legislative assembly in July.
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Samya Kullab,
ajc,
31 Aug. 2022
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The race was expected to be tight, with pollsters predicting that no party would gain a majority of seats in the legislative assembly, resulting in some form of coalition partnership.
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Swati Gupta,
CNN,
15 May 2018
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While Jammu and Kashmir will still be able to elect its own legislative assembly, all of its administrative regions are now largely controlled by the central government.
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Helen Regan,
CNN,
31 Oct. 2019
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In recent weeks, Maduro’s government has also sought to unseat Guaidó as the legislative assembly chief — a position on which his recognition by the United States and others as the legitimate president is based.
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Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2020
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Since there is no state government, or state legislative assembly, the central government and Parliament have taken power to remove the article.
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Washington Post,
6 Aug. 2019
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After going through the public consultation procedure, the Macau Gaming Bill is under discussion by the members of the legislative assembly.
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Trefis Team,
Forbes,
26 Jan. 2022
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There is also a tradition of former cosmonauts leaving spaceflight and going into the Russian legislative assembly, the Duma.
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Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2022
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The prize is delivered by a five-member committee appointed by Norway's legislative assembly, unlike the four other Nobel prizes which are delivered in Sweden.
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NBC News,
11 Oct. 2019
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On a faraway planet with perfectly logical beings, there was a legislative assembly consisting of 100 members who met every day.
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Quanta Magazine,
16 May 2019
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The president-elect will need to negotiate with a highly fragmented legislative assembly.
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Amy Erica Smith,
Vox,
2 Apr. 2018
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Its residents elect their own legislative assembly, a governor, and a representative to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Alan Gomez,
USA TODAY,
26 Sep. 2017
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On Wednesday, June 9, El Salvador’s legislative assembly made history by formally adopting bitcoin as legal tender, with nearly three-fourths of the legislature voting in favor.
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Avik Roy,
Forbes,
10 June 2021
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The Secretary of State’s office provides information available on past legislative assemblies.
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Guest Opinion,
oregonlive.com,
14 Jan. 2019
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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who is popular in his country, has leveraged his position to take autocratic steps, including attempting a coup against the legislative assembly.
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Washington Post,
1 May 2021
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The by-election is one of several made necessary after six pro-democracy lawmakers were barred from the territory’s legislative assembly, a move that followed a legal interpretation issued by the Chinese National Congress in Beijing.
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Simon Denyer,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2018
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Following the 1824 provision, Georgia’s legislative assembly – which was dominated by Democrats – ended up choosing Callaway’s Democratic opponent as the next governor.
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Joshua Holzer,
The Conversation,
23 Nov. 2020
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