Synonym: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislature. Similar words: legislation, legislator, legislature, relative, relatively, translation, native, narrative. Meaning: ['ledʒɪsleɪtɪv/-lətɪv] n. persons who make or amend or repeal laws. adj. 1. relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature 2. of or relating to or created by legislation.
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151, Abisala pledged to retain the majority of ministers in their posts until legislative elections, scheduled for Oct. 25.
152, Party loyalty used to be a powerful force in determining legislative action.
153, Democratic lawmakers are calling for a joint legislative committee to review the conduct of Gov.
154, Population is, of necessity, the starting point for consideration and the controlling criterion for judgment in legislative apportionment controversies.
155, An empirical test of the relative decline of legislative power is especially difficult.
156, This point can perhaps also be illustrated by some of the recent legislative reforms of company law.
157, Legislative acts that levied taxes and defined benefits have never contained any provisions for investing in assets to provide future benefits.
158, Executive hegemony is also facilitated by institutional arrangements that combine, rather than separate, the legislative and executive branches.
159, But the long-term movement of stock prices will hinge on follow-up actions by the Cabinet and the Legislative Yuan.
160, There is a shadow here,[sentencedict.com] experts say: Consumer mistrust and legislative action could keep the concept from really taking off.
161, It was charged with writing a new charter and would meanwhile perform legislative and monitoring functions.
162, In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters.
163, Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
164, In these systems, the electorate selects legislative candidates from a party committed to support a particular prime minister.
165, The chamber's procedural rules mean that the Democrats will now gain control of its legislative agenda.
166, This success was to be repeated, albeit less convincingly,[http://sentencedict.com/legislative.html] eighteen months later when much-delayed legislative elections were held.
167, Along the staircase of the Legislative Council building are old paintings of water buffalo and bamboo paddies.
168, Legislative leaders, who approved modest increases in college funding in the last few years, could not be reached Friday.
169, With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda.
170, Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.
171, Regulations, directives, and decisions have in common that they are binding legislative Acts.
172, However, Clinton has no illusions that the Republican Congress would react favorably to a legislative agenda, McCurry said.
173, As we explain below, we find this legislative effort within constitutional bounds even if Congress may not regulate drinking ages directly.
174, The agreement was subject to legislative approval in both countries.
175, The Act of 1944 remains the one substantial legislative achievement of the wartime coalition.
176, Throughout the 1960s, as technology, especially computer technology, developed, pressure built up in Parliament for legislative controls.
177, He also found ways around previously agreed limits of 20 directly-elected seats to the Legislative Council in 1995.
178, The oath of office, too, imposed by the legislature, is completely demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject.
179, Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
180, Legislative changes in benefit regulations of course cause difficulties at the Department of Social Security which is already unable to cope.
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