Sentence examples for legislative center from inspiring English sources

And so the sprawling Capitol complex is both our nation's legislative center and its food court.

Now widely considered to be the legislative center of "the resistance," the guide shares tactics citizens can use to lobby their representatives and senators.

The sites targeted for the Sept. 11 attacks included crucial nodes of the state, the points required for maintenance of civic order: military and financial centers and possibly executive and legislative centers.

There have long been lawmakers, like Mr. Akin, whose main legislative agenda centers on the abortion issue.

Heading into his re-election campaign and big legislative battles centering on the 2012 budget and the need to raise the federal debt ceiling, he is now well positioned to appeal to the political center even as his allies make the case that the current Republican Party is so extreme that liberals will ultimately get behind him as the best alternative.

Much of the debate in the 2008 legislative session centered on crafting a budget for the 2008 2010 biennium, a period when the state was projected to encounter a shortfall of nearly $1 billion.

The next legislative battle centered on removing the head of the Board of Charities and Corrections and give the governor greater control over the board's makeup; this attempt also narrowly failed.

As you said, we're living in a moment where very real legislative battles that center on women's bodies are happening.

In last month's legislative elections, the center-right party took 19 percent of the vote, the collapsing center-left party took 13 percent — and sandwiched in between them was Syriza, with as strong a claim to legitimacy as either.

The recent expansion of same-sex marriage rights has come about in part through alliances of left-of-center legislative majorities with progressive executives, like Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina and President José Mujica of Uruguay.

Any time the left and the right find themselves allied against the center on legislative fights, Americans should sit up and take notice.