How to Use legislative assembly in a Sentence

legislative assembly

noun
  • 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.
    Yonatan Fessha, Quartz Africa, 31 July 2019
  • In Old English, a moot (or mot, or gemot) was a judicial or legislative assembly.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021
  • 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.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The law passed by El Salvador’s legislative assembly makes no mention of mining.
    Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • 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.
    NBC News, 30 July 2019
  • The law was approved with 67 votes in favor, according to a tweet by the legislative assembly’s official account.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Morales noted that the legislative assembly was required by law to vote on his resignation.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Only 14 out of the 33 legislative assembly seats are directly elected, the rest being doled out to interest groups.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Around that time, the legislative assembly of Puerto Rico passed Act 22, which created a tax haven for rich Americans, who started moving in.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Yellowknife is also the capital of the Northwest Territories, and there are daily tours of the legislative assembly.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • He has been accused of consolidating power, and marching troops into the legislative assembly to get a bill passed among other things.
    Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • 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.
    Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Elections to the legislative assembly have not been held since, and top political leaders are frequently detained.
    Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
  • 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.
    Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 13 June 2019
  • The convening of a legislative assembly in 1619 formed the basis of today’s representative system of government in the United States.
    Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • 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.
    Samya Kullab, ajc, 31 Aug. 2022
  • 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.
    Swati Gupta, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • 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.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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.
    Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Since there is no state government, or state legislative assembly, the central government and Parliament have taken power to remove the article.
    Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • After going through the public consultation procedure, the Macau Gaming Bill is under discussion by the members of the legislative assembly.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • There is also a tradition of former cosmonauts leaving spaceflight and going into the Russian legislative assembly, the Duma.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • 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.
    NBC News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • On a faraway planet with perfectly logical beings, there was a legislative assembly consisting of 100 members who met every day.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
  • The president-elect will need to negotiate with a highly fragmented legislative assembly.
    Amy Erica Smith, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Its residents elect their own legislative assembly, a governor, and a representative to the U.S. House of Representatives.
    Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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.
    Avik Roy, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The Secretary of State’s office provides information available on past legislative assemblies.
    Guest Opinion, oregonlive.com, 14 Jan. 2019
  • 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.
    Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • 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.
    Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2018

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