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

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024