How to Use unicameral in a Sentence

unicameral

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• Acts of the unicameral Congress required concurrence from nine of 13 states.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 4 June 2021
• The president will defend himself before the unicameral congress on Monday, or send his lawyer to do so.
  — Matthew Bristow, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Initial results showed his New Ideas party set to win 56 of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly, the country’s unicameral congress.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Peru’s unicameral congress has twice tried to remove him from office.
  — Franklin Briceno, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2022
• Peru's fragmented unicameral Congress meanwhile resumed a debate Friday on when and how to hold early elections as a way out of the crisis.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• His Fidesz party and its allies came away with more than 50 percent of the vote and a two-thirds supermajority in the country’s unicameral National Assembly.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• All 57 seats in the country's unicameral National Assembly are also up for election.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
• Nebraska’s unicameral state legislature on Tuesday gave initial passage to a bill that would give college athletes in the state the ability to make money from their name, image and likeness.
  — Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• The country’s constitution allows the president to dissolve the unicameral parliament if two of his cabinet chiefs lose votes of confidence.
  — John Quigley | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Whichever candidate wins will have to work with a fragmented unicameral congress, which has contributed to political instability in the last five years.
  — Claudia Rebaza, CNN, 5 June 2021
• The unicameral Legislature is officially nonpartisan, but Republicans hold 32 seats to Democrats’ 17, one vote shy of being able to end a filibuster.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• That would have been a fine commercial if Vargas had been running for reelection to unicameral legislature rather than trying to knock off a difficult-to-dislodge Republican incumbent.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Marsh specifically dealt with the practice of the Nebraska legislature to pay a chaplain to deliver legislative invocations ahead of its unicameral meetings.
  — David Aaro, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2022
• Whatever the scenario for the second round, Peru’s future president faces a deeply fragmented political landscape in the country’s unicameral Congress, which also was elected Sunday.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• Nebraska also has the only unicameral Legislature in the nation and there are no party caucuses, although affiliations are known.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• Peru’s unicameral Congress is deeply fragmented among 10 political parties and rarely can come to any consensus on passing legislation.
  — Franklin Briceño and Regina Garcia Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
• South Korea has a unicameral legislature — the National Assembly — with 300 members.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2020
• Residents brag about their unique unicameral Legislature, where lawmakers do not caucus by party, and frequently don scarlet Nebraska T-shirts celebrating the state’s flagship university and its football team, the Cornhuskers.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017
• The unicameral Nebraska Legislature gave preliminary approval earlier Thursday to a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
  — Steve Karnowski, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• Republicans control both legislative houses in 30 states, plus the unicameral legislature of Nebraska.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Nov. 2022
• Nebraska has a unicameral legislature that is officially nonpartisan; Alaska’s senate is made up of 11 Republicans and nine Democrats but will be led by a bipartisan majority coalition.
  — Randy Yeip, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Nebraska, unique among U.S. states, is unicameral and officially nonpartisan.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018

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