Sentence examples for in one legislative from inspiring English sources

We've survived the Dumb and Dumber era of Tony Abbott – which was mainly just painful to watch, but did actually result in one legislative action that was entirely against Australia's national interest, the repeal of a perfectly functional carbon price.

Maryland recently changed this policy so prisoners could count as residents of the communities they came from, but that was only after lawmakers figured out that "inmates were nearly a fifth of the 'residents' in one legislative district," giving a rural municipality much more political power than it should have been afforded.

Put it this way: In one country, one party holding 45 out of 100 seats in one legislative house, while serving a minority of the very rich, can basically block what quite a lot of the other seven billion people on Earth want and need, because a two-thirds majority in the Senate must consent to any international treaty the U.S. signs.

They can be wooed, gradually, if Republicans address their aspirations and anxieties, but they aren't going to be claimed in one legislative pander.

Maryland, for example, required inmates to be counted in their home communities after learning that inmates were nearly a fifth of the "residents" in one legislative district and 64 percent of the population of one county commission district.

Similar measures have been passed in at least one legislative chamber in Louisiana, Utah and Michigan, and the Pennsylvania Senate has passed a nonbinding resolution to prohibit the use of adjusted data in redistricting.

In most states, this means that the focus will be winning a Democratic majority in at least one legislative chamber, but success may require different tactics in others.

Mr. Bennett's speech was part of a whirlwind week in the state capitol, where one legislative session will end, a new Legislature will be sworn in and four people will serve as governor over eight days.

Republican leaders of the House and Senate have already accused the Florida Supreme Court of partisanship, noting that six of its members were appointed by Democratic governors, and a statement by one legislative leader in response to today's opinion sounded dismissive.

During one legislative session in Austin, Perry shared an apartment with three representatives.

In Venezuela, there is only one legislative chamber, so the small states' disproportional power is not as great as in the U.S. system.