Dressed in their white official uniforms, the subdistrict chiefs went to the legislative building in a motorcade. |
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To date, their achievements have been purely symbolic or legislative rather than financial. |
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The Bar Council of India has chosen to initiate a pan-India bar examination even in the absence of a legislative mandate. |
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Unfortunately, President Carter's battles with Congress over legislative vetoes alienated many members. |
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He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform. |
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As it stands such tactics may fall foul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, hence Berman's proposal for legislative changes. |
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And how ironic that a lawyer should be outmaneuvered in the legislative process. |
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The Angolan opposition has repeatedly called for legislative and presidential elections to be held next year. |
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How can one person comprehend the intricacies of copyright law and legislative change? |
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Cross-party negotiations were more relevant in expediting the legislative process. |
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There's no legislative body that sets standards of safety and fitness for purpose on commercial software. |
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Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment was that of Holland. |
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Less than four years into the life of the parliament we seem to be facing the prospect of legislative gridlock. |
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As long as it stood, it was the supreme court and legislative body in all matters of Torah law. |
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When power is divided, as it has been since 1994, the checks and balances of government make for legislative stalemate. |
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The Sejm possessed full legislative powers, and the crown could issue laws only with its consent. |
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With the aim of winning a legislative majority, both camps have made vote allocation and tactical voting their campaign strategy of choice. |
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As an MP his oratorical powers and capacity for mastering legislative detail made him the outstanding parliamentarian on the Labour bench. |
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The legislative capital will be Hopedale, while the administrative capital will be Nain. |
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This is not the first time the freelance writer has run as a candidate in the legislative election. |
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In both cases, the new redistricting laws are being rushed through at the end of a legislative session. |
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The speakers praised the deeds of the former Mayor whose second term was truncated by legislative and judicial developments. |
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An interdepartmental committee was formed to bring in a legislative framework. |
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The severe economic contraction that began in the summer of 1937 seems to have brought the New Deal's legislative activism to a halt. |
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It does mean that further changes in our laws will be brought about only through the normal legislative process. |
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Are you happy for our legislative to have free rein to disenfranchise you of your rights? |
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However, the party's legislative caucus countered the media reports during a press conference yesterday morning. |
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Wall Street likes legislative gridlock because politicians cannot apply their financial ideas. |
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The conveners were decided according to an agreement reached by leaders of legislative caucuses on Tuesday. |
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The public reaction, in turn, sparked federal and state legislative proposals and more news stories. |
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Blogger Ed Foster mulls over legislative and regulatory proposals on the table. |
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Public policy topics will expand our knowledge base in the legislative and regulatory arenas and inspire attendees to become politically active. |
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Governor Rick Perry has ordered a special legislative session on June 30 to take up redistricting. |
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Perhaps you could give me a note, if that is appropriate, in due course, about the legislative history of trespass to Crown lands. |
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The especially broad coverage for sexual harassment indicates a strong legislative intent to fight harassment. |
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It has proven to be successful in accommodating the differing interests that have a stake in the legislative process. |
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The Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal declared that certain legislative deficiencies made the agency a toothless tiger. |
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It includes the methods for choosing the holders of executive, judicial and legislative power. |
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Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system. |
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Chen took candidates for the legislative elections to the temple to pray for success. |
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The legislative branch consists of a bicameral general assembly with ninety-nine representatives and thirty senators and the vice president. |
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It seems no coincidence that every election year a few politicians gang together for some legislative bashing. |
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Federal Courts have the power to review and invalidate legislative acts which are contrary to the Constitution. |
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This addition to the nation's anti-corruption laws is part of a flurry of legislative activity to combat white-collar crime. |
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They noted that the affirmative resolution procedure allows a truncated legislative process, but considered that that had considerable drawbacks. |
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The governing and opposition parties are growing more confrontational, trading trumped-up accusations and even blows on the legislative floor. |
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The Parliament's legislative powers also have grown significantly since the Treaty of Rome. |
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The Egyptian system has allowed a carefully circumscribed amount of competition for legislative seats. |
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Critics of congressional monetary policy would point out the legislative lags that result and the consequent harm to economic performance. |
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The judgment states there are two proposals for legislative action but other means could also be found. |
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Virtually everyone was engaged in actively discussing key legislative and political issues of interest to nurses and nursing. |
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He is a constitutional monarch with the power to dissolve the legislative assembly, which is known as the Fono. |
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At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said. |
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An opposition party's legislative caucus can coordinate its members in policy promotion. |
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It provides for a president with extensive executive powers and legislative veto authority who is elected by the assembly for a seven-year term. |
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The meeting, attended by all five legislative caucuses, attempted to thrash out a preliminary consensus before today's meeting. |
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The scope of the law on corroboration has been substantially reduced by recent legislative and judicial reforms. |
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I hope to bring the necessary legislative proposals to the House during the course of the year. |
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The ministry hasn't decided whether it will propose a motion to reverse the legislative resolution this week, he said. |
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Such a legislative change per se cannot be unconstitutional in the absence of some further invalidity. |
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In 2003, the legislative elections were cancelled due to this intransigence. |
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The 1973 legislative elections were very close, and the vote of the right was squeezed by the left as its realignment paid off. |
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The legislative election will be held on April 5, and new legislators will assume their posts in October. |
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Unlike his predecessor, he sees no political mileage in turf wars, or even pursuing different legislative agendas. |
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The proposed legislative proposals will do nothing to lessen that perception. |
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He said the government would consider various factors before submitting legislative proposals. |
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The country requires four bills as the legal basis for the 2004 legislative and presidential elections. |
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Only a few fake ballot papers were found by the commission ahead of the April 5 legislative election. |
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But as you know, there's a lot of people concerned about the split, the division between the executive and the legislative branch. |
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But further delays in the legislative process, or difficulties in lining up a buyer for the business, would bring latecomers back into the frame. |
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There should in my view be no new legislative institutions, no new talk shops. |
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Franklin Roosevelt wanted to pack the Court with New Dealers who would uphold his legislative program. |
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Other Greens will compete for other statewide offices and for state legislative seats. |
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For those contemplating a legislative grand gesture, France provides a sobering case study. |
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The legislative branch consists of a bicameral legislation in which all people and ethnicities can be represented. |
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In my submission, the extraterritorial legislative competence does not depend on how another State has dealt with the subject matter. |
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The New Deal coalition also achieved considerable legislative success, especially with respect to statutes that governed labor relations. |
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The redrawn constitution of 1975 established a single legislative body with three hundred seats. |
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And thirdly, it didn't actually govern the country, being simply a legislative body with limited powers to enact laws for the Governor. |
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But after the election, the legislative assembly should invest much more in MLA orientation and training than it did the first time. |
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But 2007 is also the year when the country will hold legislative and presidential elections. |
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Ruling and opposition party legislative caucuses finally reached a consensus on Wednesday to halve the number of legislative seats. |
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Then, in October 1905, it was transformed into the supreme legislative and administrative body. |
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The movement's main thrust, however, was to seek legislative restriction of the liquor traffic. |
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The Government have placed fostering a culture of respect at the centre of their legislative programme in the Queen's Speech. |
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If the EU Council adopted the legislative proposal of May 18th, it would do so without democratic legitimacy. |
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How much of Atheism has infiltrated into legislative and executive branches at all levels of government? |
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Since 1997, the UK construction sector has seen the introduction of a raft of legislative measures and incentives. |
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This is a legitimate dispute between the executive and the legislative branch of government. |
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The EU does not have separate legislative and executive branches to speak of. |
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In addition, California is one of only two states mandating a two-thirds supermajority of both legislative bodies to pass a budget. |
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The legislative branch consists of a bicameral parliament with a Chamber of Counselors and a Chamber of Representatives. |
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From diplomatic circles to newspapers around the world to legislative chambers, there is a debate going on. |
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This landmark and laudable legislative step would go a long way in women empowerment and gender equality. |
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Such legislative developments, Wright argues, were underpinned by a number of moral and economic imperatives. |
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That committee work appears to have engaged his interest, unlike any actual legislative issue. |
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The reasoning was based on the constitutional separation of legislative and judicial powers. |
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To the extent that Part 14 of the regulations falls within the zone of exclusive federal legislative power, the State regulation must be invalid. |
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To call the Scottish legislative programme a hotchpotch is an insult to stews. |
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Have all administrative, legal and legislative avenues to pass a law truly been exhausted? |
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The Brazilian proposal also called for legislative protection for local production of cheaper generic drugs. |
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In the 1800s, states began to pass general incorporation laws, which let people create corporations without any special legislative intervention. |
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If the Great Congregation was the legislative body of the University, Congregation was the executive body. |
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I say that the inexpediency is a very specific matter which is to be judged according to the legislative policy. |
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It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs. |
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Yes, it would expose the unseemly work of legislative horse-trading without which successful coalition and law-making may not be possible. |
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From 1990 through 1994 during the legislative sessions, I co-hosted a weekly public television program on government and politics. |
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Currently, the legislative committee consists of a chair and two co-chairs who are supported by state coordinators in each state. |
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On this view, the Commission represents the general interest and has the monopoly over legislative initiation. |
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The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions. |
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So the chancellor would be able to govern for at least one whole legislative period unhindered by the encumbrances of federalism. |
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It will be sent to the Rules Committee for further consideration in next legislative session. |
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It is only legislative encouragement which can effectually protect him against these difficulties. |
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An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session. |
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The legislation involved is complicated and involves a legislative paperchase. |
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After a position paper is written, the legislative committee should share it with all grassroots members and other coalition organizations. |
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The result was a federal government in which Republicans control both the executive and legislative branches. |
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MsCoughlan said the next step would be the publication of formal legislative proposals by the Commission. |
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The fact that the smoke is offensively unpleasant warrants legislative regulation of the matter. |
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As a result, the Chen administration has become a lame-duck administration during the interim period before the year-end legislative elections. |
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The effect of recent legislative changes means that the state can now extract much more co-operation from a suspect. |
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The seat will be elected for the first time by the people in the April 2004 legislative elections. |
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The legislative branch dominates this distributive type of policy, especially the standing committees with programmatic jurisdiction. |
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The recommendations of the Royal Commission would have a bearing on any final legislative proposals. |
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A bill was introduced into the legislative assembly that would have banned the use of powdered latex gloves throughout the state. |
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Policy must be implemented by legislative enactment, rather than public education alone. |
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The highest legislative body is a unicameral parliament called the State Great Hural with 76 elected members. |
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This is why the French left was more likely to stay home during the legislative elections. |
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Clark opened his purse again for the fall elections, determined to elect a legislative majority that would return him to the Senate. |
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Amien said that his party has failed to meet the target to become one of the big three winners in the legislative election. |
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We also recognize there will be other legislative proposals, and there already are. |
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First, regulatory and legislative bodies in any developing country will rarely change on their own. |
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Half of the 60 legislative seats were directly elected, with 3.2 million people registered to vote. |
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Others are schooling themselves on the new legislative landscape not just to gain a marketing advantage but out of necessity. |
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Of the country's 99 state legislative chambers, the GOP lost control of six and won only four from the Democrats. |
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Meanwhile, the movement is quietly choosing candidates and allies for the legislative elections. |
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This hot new trend of challenging legislative elections is getting out of hand. |
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The trend among democracies over the last few decades has been toward judicial review of legislative as well as executive action. |
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Since the summer break, each caucus has put forward its own proposals for legislative reform. |
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While he has allowed legislative elections since then, he has shown no sign of relinquishing power. |
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Similarly, states are free to experiment with such things in their state legislative elections. |
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Unlike a legislative body in most democracies, the Council exercises significant executive powers. |
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When the pan-blue camp grabbed a victory in the 2004 legislative elections, people were shocked. |
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Even from beyond the legislative grave, Section 28 continues to exercise its malign influence. |
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Similarly, Dutch courts have placed a liberal interpretation on Dutch legislative provisions on jurisdiction over war crimes. |
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The policy process does not end once agreement has been reached on a legislative proposal. |
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His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds. |
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There is also multiparty legislative power vested in an eighty-member Parliament, whose members are elected to five-year terms. |
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And the legislative proposals that followed were not aimed only at Muslims either. |
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Ray predicted that violations would be rampant during both legislative and presidential elections and during the ballot counting. |
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Of the country's 7,424 state legislative seats, 22 percent are held by women. |
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All of these legislative measures made it much easier for labor unions to accomplish their goals. |
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The leaked programme for the next legislative session was undramatic to the point of self-parody. |
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He wants to eat away at some of the more annoying kinds of brakes that can be applied to a measure along its legislative journey. |
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In all, there were 153 congressional and state legislative seats in play in California last November. |
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Although there are innumerable legislative changes, the terms husband, wife and marriage will be retained in all existing law. |
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Someone's going to do something about it and since so much spam comes from other, ungovernable countries, a legislative solution won't help much. |
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The Opposition has been calling for a legislative response to rural crime for a long time. |
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Once exercised, the veto not only stopped the offending law, but also broke the Sejm, invalidating the entire legislative programme. |
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This became a definite go when he lost all the legislative races, and used reapportionment as the excuse. |
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Skeel argues that the enactment and repeal of the first three bankruptcy acts is an example of legislative cycling. |
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The legislative branch is the unicameral National Assembly, which has 121 members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. |
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Jefri would cancel the tender process if he found that companies were being manipulated by legislative council members. |
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It's of huge importance whether the Judicial system is separate to or intertwined with the legislative and executive systems. |
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While at the University of Georgia I interned in the office of Lt. Governor Zell Miller, and learned the legislative process in the state Senate. |
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So we can therefore say that he is single-handedly responsible for the failure of legislative reform. |
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Friendly was more of a cautious purposivist than a textualist, and was willing to cite and rely on legislative history in some circumstances. |
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At present, only one-third of the 60 legislative seats are directly elected. |
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The Government is committed to aquaculture law reform because the current legislative framework is outdated, overcomplicated, and dysfunctional. |
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The first relationship state coordinators develop is with the chairs of the chapters ' legislative committees in their states. |
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Several of the benefits listed do not directly correspond with a typical legislative internship. |
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He also tried to dispel the belief that the government had a thin legislative agenda. |
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Some of them had legislative charters, others did not, and still others operated in violation of the law. |
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Akbar said the House's endorsement of the 45 candidates was a three-stage process, including a plenary session of the legislative body. |
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Governors, regents and mayors will also attend the plenary meeting at the national legislative complex. |
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Even a timorous proposal to convert taxis from diesel to less-polluting petrol five years ago failed to win legislative support. |
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It is a long process, but one that allows the grass-roots members of the Association to fully participate in its legislative agenda. |
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In other words, adopt interpretations that will provoke a legislative override that will make it clear what the legislature really wants today. |
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In this way the Administration sidestepped both the legislative and judicial branches. |
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This pork barrel was added secretly and late in the legislative process, without the knowledge of many members of the House. |
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Basic legislative knowledge, while intimidating at times, is paramount to our success at the grass-roots level. |
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As for the constitutional argument, the assumption seems to be that the principle of legislative supremacy is all-powerful. |
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The legislative branch is composed of a bicameral parliament with a senate appointed by the ruling party and an assembly chosen by popular vote. |
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These agencies were entrusted with independent legislative authority on a federal level. |
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In some cases, court decisions, legislative action, or other informal influences have undermined supervisors. |
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It was the legislative frameworks for the complementary therapists in osteopathy and chiropractic which initiated the new approach. |
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Although designed as a legislative chamber, its form had generated an extra function. |
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His first chance comes on Tuesday when he hansels the new parliament with a speech outlining the Executive's legislative plans. |
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As is the case with UK law, the aims of Community policy are nowhere encapsulated in its legislative provisions. |
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The Muslims fear the homecoming of the pandits might be accompanied by some legislative guarantees, which can deprive them of the such holdings. |
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The target of the latter piece of legislative legerdemain is the Free Software movement itself. |
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The constitution of 1799 created an appointed senate, which chose members of a tribunate and a legislative body from the departmental lists. |
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One person was killed as riot police battled voters in this third and final round of legislative elections. |
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The question has been a live one long before it entered the deep entrails of the European Union's legislative process. |
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On 13 April 1997, Mali held a first round of legislative elections, but the results were annulled by the Constitutional Court. |
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It wasn't really codification, because Congress did not set down a legislative rule to supplant the judicial one. |
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The two books provide detailed but clear legislative history while illuminating the changing political process and values of the postwar West. |
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This is an object lesson in the perils of trying to improve prose style by legislative fiat. |
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He examines the roles of the judicial and legislative bodies in the U.S. in framing labor markets. |
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Their attitude toward the aborted Algerian legislative elections is illustrative. |
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Dieter says the debate prompted legislative proposals for similar changes or studies in about 17 states. |
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For Americans, writs of assistance were grievous because they were authorized by Parliament and were yet another potential threat to rights posed by Parliament's claim to legislative supremacy. |
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He wanted to slice through the pontificating speeches and backroom deal-making, the corrosive disagreements between the house and the senate, all of which paralyzed legislative action. |
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He summoned Parliament, which for the first time in English history worked with the king as an omnicompetent legislative assembly, if hesitatingly so. |
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After law school, she joined daub full-time, working as his legislative assistant on issues like health care and Social Security. |
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Eventually, public pressure resulted in legislative action with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and, more importantly from a drug policy perspective, the Harrison Narcotics Act. |
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By August, the administration had a new legislative proposal to rally around. |
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Now, the legislative fight is moving to the state level, where the for-profit education industry also wields considerable clout. |
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Legislative whips from across party lines promised the speaker they would ask their colleagues not to use foreign languages on the legislative floor. |
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The legislative Speaker conceded defeat after being trounced by Jones. |
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Again, research into the side effects of legislation on excise taxes and customs duties will be necessary in order to help design efficient legislative proposals. |
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If Labour wanted to run a minority government, there may be some discussion as to what might be in the legislative programme and who might be committee conveners. |
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But I suspect it's largely beside the point because once you're to that point you're into a process of legislative horse-trading and conference committees. |
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The thrust of legislative work is done in the committees, where individual rapporteurs draft reports that form the basis for parliamentary resolutions. |
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Whilst facilitating the adoption of this model by employers, legislative vagueness about the issue subverts the effectiveness of union resistance. |
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The enviro movement's new poster girl lacks a legislative track record. |
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There is a National Assembly elected every four years, and they meet twice annually and work with the Revolutionary Command Council to make legislative decisions. |
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Instead of having formal legislative powers, like the House of Lords, he suggested parliamentary committees could refer questions to the advisory panel. |
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Formally the United Kingdom remains a unitary state, but Scotland now has its own legislative Parliament and Wales a National Assembly with wide executive powers. |
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They have reacted with a mixture of dismay and anger to the spate of legislative activity aimed at banning overseas outsourcing or offshoring of government contracts. |
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Prior to the election, the mood between the government and opposition was confrontational, so naturally the legislative process did not proceed smoothly. |
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Elected to the Illinois legislature in 1936, Daley was a hard-working, clean-living exception to the carousing lifestyle of the state's legislative culture. |
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Mackaman is the SEP candidate for state representative in Illinois' 103rd legislative district, which includes the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. |
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The publicly provided good, while valued by the voters, neither stimulates nor retards economic growth throughout the course of the current legislative period. |
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In 1972, after liberation, the tribal people asked for autonomy, with a separate legislative body, and a retention of the 1900 Regulations against non-tribal settlers. |
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State legislative bodies have been urged to address issues of contract fairness, inequities in bargaining power, concentration in the marketplace, and other related issues. |
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Apparent retroactivity covers the situation where legislative acts are applied to events which occurred in the past, but which have not yet been definitively concluded. |
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The legal question is whether this constitutes an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to a private entity. |
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Wisely reluctant to admit the rabble into her office, she set up camp first in the too-small government caucus room, and then in the resplendent old legislative chamber. |
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Even before the presidency series began, there were two single-day conferences during the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution on the legislative and judicial branches. |
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The British system of government is one where an executive body, appointed from the ranks of elected representatives, initiates policy and the legislative process. |
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And it is here that the interests of the president and his legislative troops may diverge. |
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The newly elected members of Nunavut's first legislative assembly are a mixture of young, old and many of them are able to speak Inuit, French and English. |
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His party essentially has legislative parity in both chambers. |
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Republicans and Democrats have equal distrust for the legislative branch, no matter who is running the show. |
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They are also exploring the effects of social and legislative controls such as blood alcohol limits for driving and controlling the density of liquor outlets in neighborhoods. |
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The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed. |
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The qualitative differences between the two types of internships also raise concerns about the validity of granting academic credits for legislative internships. |
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As might be expected, the legislative granting of corporate charters generated a great deal of populist hand-wringing about equality of opportunity. |
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It is a common law presumption of legislative intent that access to the Queen's courts in respect of justiciable issues is not to be denied save by clear words in a statute. |
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No longer would the party be lead by members with legislative skill, but by those who could bring in cash. |
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Although the party's legislative caucus apologized for the low turnout of DPP members yesterday, they said they shouldn't shoulder all of the responsibility. |
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So, too, can citizens, peering down into the legislative chamber below. |
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Clearly, inclusion is judge-made law, not legislative action. |
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So the Problem Solvers signed on to a No Labels legislative package designed to address waste and inefficiency in government. |
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We need a single legislative council, a bicameral European Parliament, with one house representing member states, and the other the European electorate. |
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The Council has also increasingly made use of opinions and resolutions as a way of pressuring the Commission into generating legislative proposals. |
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He resigned his seat in the legislative assembly a short while later. |
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The first legislative elections in December threw out the sitting candidates, notably the leading lights of the Fourth Republic, and savaged the left. |
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Stone insisted that the judiciary should exercise restraint and recognize the need for the legislative and executive branches to respond to the Great Depression. |
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One of those issues is the organisation of legislative elections. |
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The Community adopts a legislative act which is subsequently transposed by the member states into their own legal order, and implemented by the national administrations. |
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And using the bully pulpit to push for broader legislative change at the federal and state level? |
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Hurst sought to get the castration bill passed during the last legislative session but failed. |
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Not cavorting inconsequentially between consequential legislative votes and consequential congressional committee meetings. |
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The dynamics of a meltdown of the GOP majority would be different from that and so would the legislative outcomes. |
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Three Blacks were elected to the legislative assembly the following year. |
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The Third Republic was based upon a legislative assembly elected by universal male suffrage and proclaimed itself a thoroughly parliamentary regime. |
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A shrewder wordsmith might have better navigated the thicket of legislative traps during the Arizona debate. |
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Not a single legislative compromise has taken shape, especially on the big-ticket issues like the budget and taxes. |
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I mean, this is a legislative framework that refers everybody through an unascertainable process where we're not certain whether there'll be any uniformity about it. |
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The temblor also damaged hundreds of houses and buildings, including the local legislative council building and several churches and mosques, and five bridges. |
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In this short-lived microrepublic, all the men were members of the legislative General Assembly and had a vote on what was law. |
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A one-size-fits-all legislative approach could disturb this balance. |
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The real issue here is that reasonableness is a losing quality in legislative negotiations. |
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The Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament traditionally sets out the stall for the Government's legislative programme for the year ahead. |
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Can he carry the legislative ball into the end zone against a prevent defense swarming with arm-waving Republicans? |
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Right from the start it seemed as if Harris' entire political staff were hunting through the legislative library armed only with red pencils and sharp scissors. |
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In most states, the legislative chambers, along with the governor, direct where congressional district lines are redrawn. |
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Reference to the government as a legislative body is infrequent and terse. |
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The Congress tried to handle administrative affairs through legislative committees, which proved inefficient. |
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California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals. |
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In the civil law tradition, the legislative body agrees a priori on the general principles to be followed. |
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It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by the voters. |
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And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union. |
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Masses of unemployed plebeians soon began to flood into Rome, and thus into the ranks of the legislative assemblies. |
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The Senate version of the House measure now bobs quietly in the horse latitudes of legislative inaction. |
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In addition to its legislative functions, the Council also exercises executive functions in relations to the Common Foreign and Security Policy. |
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The legislative package may be lacking in presentational pizzazz but it sets out the sort of solid agenda which Labour should be doing. |
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Missouri legislators are half way through the legislative process that would make the ice cream cone the official state dessert. |
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In the 2015 Texas legislative session, state lawmakers frequently used their religious beliefs to defend their policymaking. |
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Nebraska is the only state that has a unicameral legislative body consisting of 49 senators, who officially have no party affiliation. |
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The WNA Board of Directors adopted the WNA 2011-2012 Public Policy Agenda for this legislative biennium. |
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For example, being ratified by a constitutionally bound legislative body is one way in which an institution can be emergently justified. |
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But there's not enough time to make substantiative changes by next year's legislative session, he said. |
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The legislative branch can invent deadline after deadline after deadline. |
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Cheng, who is awaiting execution, was a vice chairman of China's highest legislative body, the National People's Congress, until March. |
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After years of legislative limbo, Congress had finally approved a measure to refortify the FDA's authority over food safety. |
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Milton Friedman's pure negative income tax never became a legislative proposal. |
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Rather than not pass a legislative fix, Congress in fact does so. |
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She has advised clients extensively on the content, scope, outcome and likely legislative impact of CETA negotiations. |
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Voters ousted the Parti Quebecois from power in provincial legislative elections largely centered on the independence debate. |
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Four years ago we began an aggressive legislative program to bolster our efforts to modernize and transform the way we operate. |
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Dunn rejected all legislative efforts by accommodationists to fund religion. |
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Workplace Answers' LMS enables organizations to report on legislative requirements and to document the organization's success. |
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We kindly ask that the Legislature of the Virgin Islands be included in all future references by NCSL to unicameral legislative bodies. |
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Mike Beebe's legislative package was rubber-stamped through the Capitol like an opposing guard through the Hogs' most recent half-court defense. |
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The electoral system in place during the legislative elections in the USSR and the RSFSR was not democratic. |
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Special sessions are nearly always a sign of a big emergency or a big legislative belly flop. |
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John Carona's day job and the legislative casualties of tension between the Senate and the House. |
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