Sentence examples for a legislative assembly from inspiring English sources

In addition, the Federal District has a legislative assembly, similar to those of the Mexican states.

When it is acting as a legislative assembly, that isn't right.

The principal institution of the republic was the Althing, which was both a legislative assembly and a court of law.

Ciskei became an administratively distinct territory within South Africa in 1961 and acquired a legislative assembly and an executive council 10 years later.

New Zealand allowed a Western Samoan council of state and a legislative assembly to be established in the late 1940s, and a constitutional convention met in 1954.

In July, China established a military garrison and a legislative assembly on the tiny Paracel Islands, which Vietnam also claims, exacerbating the tensions there.

More than 100 political parties were competing for seats in the legislative assembly.

This document created a federal government consisting of a bicameral legislative assembly, a president elected by the assembly, a prime minister nominated by the president and approved by the assembly, a federal court, a state prosecutor, and a national bank.

India has blamed Islamic groups that have been backed by Pakistan for an Oct. 1 suicide bomb attack on a state legislative assembly and a Dec. 13 assault on Parliament.

We might think that a democratic legislative assembly has a genuine right to rule in the sense that citizens owe obedience to it.

The French Republic, established in 1792 at the height of the French Revolution, was by 1797 governed by a bicameral legislative assembly, with a five-member Directory acting as the national executive.