Synonym: general assembly, law-makers, legislative, legislative assembly. Similar words: legislator, legislative, legislation, feature, in nature, by nature, creature, signature. Meaning: ['ledʒɪsleɪtʃə] n. persons who make or amend or repeal laws.
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61) The governor said he will urge the 1997 Legislature to require parental consent for abortions performed on minors.
62) The Whigs were concerned that the arbitrary power of a prince was being replaced by the arbitrary power of the legislature.
63) The poll also found the Legislature remains unpopular among the electorate.
64) For example, when should a group direct its attention to the legislature?
65) Brown led the opposition campaign, and later criticized the media for creating a negative image of the Legislature.
66) Since then, spending has slowly increased each year, but the Legislature has always appropriated more than Weld has requested.
67) The education committee of the Ohio legislature has been considering a bill requiring evidence against evolution to also be taught.
68) There are billboards seeking the re-election to the state legislature of Marion Feinstein.
69) Eventually, in late August, the state legislature approved a budget similar to that which it had rejected on June 30.
70) He lobbied the legislature at Albany to pass a law limiting electric currents to eight hundred volts.
71) The Louisiana legislature was debating a bill to outlaw virtually all abortions.
72) This year, the state Legislature spent months debating a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution as fact.
73) Then a howl went up among conservative critics of the court that it was usurping the role of the legislature.
74) Neither will this legislature enact taxes that some say are necessary to pay for better education.
75) Fox has vowed to let the legislature choose the country's attorney-general to depoliticize the position.
76) The council was established by the Legislature to challenge the power of the federal government.
77) When he eventually succeeded Nixon, Ford immediately made reassuring noises to his former colleagues in the legislature.
78) He also expects to ask the Legislature to allow the county to create a sports enterprise zone near the Astrodome.
79) Executive authority is nominally vested in the President who is elected by the legislature to no more than two five-year terms of office.
80) As early as 1821, the first state law dealing directly with abortion was enacted by the Connecticut Legislature.
81) The reformed parliament with temporarily appointed deputies has already established itself as a genuine decision-making legislature.
82) A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.
83) In 1994, the California legislature passed a bill to permit physicians to prescribe marijuana.
84) The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
85) Mr Tung must maintain momentum towards democratic reforms,(Sentencedict.com ) increasing the number of directly elected representatives in the territory's legislature.
86) Its legacy: changes in employment policies, more security measures and more money from the legislature for improvements.
87) In the early months, Reagan was meticulously attentive to the legislature.
88) It is even questionable that the electronic press has to await permission from a state legislature in order to gain entry.
89) The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature, where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.
90) Environmentalists pointed out that many of the other environmental laws are under fire in the Legislature and Congress.
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