Sentence examples for highest legislative body from inspiring English sources

This is Indonesia's highest legislative body.

Next week the country's highest legislative body meets to pick a new president.

The troops could pull out early, or remain until Indonesia's highest legislative body, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), meets.

The timing scrupulously follows the Constitution, which stipulates that Parliament allow 60 days to prepare for a meeting of the assembly, the highest legislative body.

Amien Rais, chairman of Indonesia's highest legislative body, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), has publicly asked forgiveness for foisting Mr Wahid on the country.

Cynthia Bolbach, moderator of the church's General Assembly, its highest legislative body, said in a phone interview from Minneapolis after the vote: "Everyone was civil.

The colonial ruling class was only OK with giving ordinary (white, male) people a democratically elected House of Commons on the condition that they could appoint their friends and cronies to a higher legislative body that would check any laws passed by uppity peasants.

2. Apportionment among self-contained governing units (e.g., towns, counties, cities, states, etc).: the unit of local government acts as the constituency and is represented in higher legislative bodies.

The meeting marked the last time Speaker Christine Quinn presided over the legislative body, and emotions ran high.

The European Commission is not the first legislative body to propose a progressive stance toward legal highs.

The plan, approved by the country's top legislative body, aims for more innovation in science and technology, "medium-high" economic growth, and a doubling of its 2010 GDP by the end of the decade.