Sentence examples for elective body from inspiring English sources

The new senators have agreed to step down and run for election if the Senate is turned into an elective body.

Once Booker wins, he'll enter an elective body that has, historically, prided itself on seniority.

The next most powerful regional elective body is the 15-member Los Angeles City Council, with authority over contracts, permits, leases, licenses, zoning, planning, and funding for all city departments.

In the Arizona Legislature, an elective body of astounding dimness, one of the few bright lights was Kyrsten Sinema, who as a state senator gave a blistering critique of S.B. 1070, the state's radical, Arpaio-inspired immigration law.

The sampling, conducted in the elective body of the reference population ensured the representativeness of the sample, for age and sex distribution.

Among elective bodies, the most powerful one is the County Board of Supervisors, a five-member panel with vast executive, legislative, and (in planning matters) quasi-judicial powers.

Last week Mr. Le Pen, a 69-year-old veteran of French wars in Indochina and Algeria, got conservative leaders in 5 of the country's 22 regional assemblies to defy orders from on high and accept votes of support from the front, enabling them to keep their leftist opponents from taking control of the elective bodies.

A representative specimen is shown in Figure S2 in Additional file 1. Adipose-derived stem cells (ASC) (isolated as described previously by [ 18]) were isolated from subcutaneous fat tissue that was obtained from patients undergoing elective body-contouring procedures.

House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession.

For eight years, women have been pushing for a bigger role in politics through the enactment of a law that would fulfil the requirements of the 2010 constitution, which states that "not more than two-thirds of the members of elective public bodies shall be of the same gender".

These are independent, non-elective, specialized bodies of oversight that provide relevant information on government performance, and sometimes sanction public officials on voter's behalf [ 17– 17].