How to Use legislative council in a Sentence

legislative council

noun

• Lam said the bill will expire when the current legislative council session ends next year.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2019
• Roads around the legislative council and other areas where Xi has been traveling have been closed.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• On Monday, a court ruled that 22-year-old Agnes Chow had been illegally barred from running for a seat on the city's legislative council last year.
  — James Griffiths and Eric Cheung, CNN, 2 Sep. 2019
• Lacey had been on the council for 18 years, since the town changed its charter to establish a mayoral form of government with an 11-member legislative council.
  — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2018
• In many ways, Tuesday's violence was similar to the July 1 storming of the city's legislative council.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
• This committee would play the new role of both nominating — and electing — members of Hong Kong’s legislative council, Wang said.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• One of the new laws requires a legislative council to approve the secretary of state entering into a consent decree.
  — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• The city's legislative council was one of the last avenues for residents to voice dissent -- but this, too, was effectively closed off by Wednesday's ruling.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
• The budget will need to be approved by the county’s 11-member legislative council before being adopted.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• One of the restrictions put in place was a system of extensive vetting of candidates for chief executive and the city’s legislative council.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• There would also be a Cabinet made up of technocrats chosen by the protesters, as well as a legislative council, the makeup of which would be decided within three months.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• There would also be a Cabinet of technocrats chosen by the protesters, as well as a legislative council, the makeup of which would be decided within three months.
  — NBC News, 3 Aug. 2019
• Moreover, the high court held that Georgia's legislative council was effectively an arm of the state legislature.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2020
• The recommendation will be voted on by the UIL’s legislative council Monday.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020
• Until a legislative council is formed, all changes to the law require the approval of the joint cabinet and Sovereignty Council by consensus or, failing that, by a two-thirds majority.
  — Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Hong Kong is also set to post its first budget deficit in 15 years, Paul Chan, the city's financial secretary, told lawmakers on Monday at a legislative council meeting.
  — Laura He, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
• Protesters a year earlier laid siege to the city’s legislative council building, breaking through its glass doors and windows from outside, before storming the chamber.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
• The accounts’ first wave of coordinated posts pushed Beijing’s stance that Hong Kong’s legislative council elections were legitimate, though critics have called the vote a sham.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The latest crackdown occurred on Sunday, when crowds took to the streets to oppose the government's decision to postpone for an entire year legislative council elections that were supposed to take place on Sunday.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Opposition activists, hoping to build on that success, held a primary vote in 2020 to select the best candidates for the legislative council elections.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
• Indonesians went to the polls in April to vote for president, members of the House of Representatives and Senate, and provincial and regional legislative councils.
  — Niniek Karmini, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• Change made to baseball postseason: The legislative council approved an amendment to the 5A and 6A baseball postseason structure, where best-of-three series will now be required for all playoff rounds leading up to the state tournament.
  — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
• Breithaupt and his staff will communicate with the legislative council on a regular basis.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 1 May 2020
• Tommy Cheung, a lawmaker who represents the catering industry in the city’s legislative council, forecasts that 40 percent of Hong Kong’s restaurants will be permanently closed by the fall.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 25 May 2020
• While hundreds of thousands of protesters staged a separate, annual march, the event was overshadowed when a more radical group smashed their way through the legislative council’s fortified glass and vandalized the building.
  — Time Staff, Time, 9 July 2019
• National-security police rounded up almost all of Hong Kong’s opposition politicians who had sought to run for the city’s legislative council elections in 2020.
  — Selina Cheng, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Hong Kong’s legislative council vetoed China’s proposal in June 2015.
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 31 Aug. 2019
• Here are other highlights from Monday’s legislative council meeting.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2020
• That event was designed to identify the strongest pro-democracy candidates to field in legislative council elections planned for last September, when the opposition camp hoped to win an historic majority.
  — Eric Cheung, Jadyn Sham, CNN, 28 Feb. 2021
• Entering politics in 1955, Moi began serving on the country’s legislative council under U.K. colonial rule.
  — David Herbling, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024