Sentence examples for legislative from from inspiring English sources

In the 17th century the English political philosopher John Locke also distinguished the legislative from the executive function but, like Aristotle, failed to assign these to separate organs or institutions.

He also called for legislation prohibiting legislative leaders from using their political action committees to accept contributions from government contractors.

He was absent from 92 percent of legislative sessions from 2009 to 2013 and never proposed any legislation or asked ministers any questions, according to parliamentary records.

Without such a plan, some officials said, the Democratic governor was unlikely to win support in the evenly split Senate from a largely Republican legislative delegation from Bergen County.

The best was probably when I worked for Sen. Muskie [a Democrat from Maine, Albright was his chief legislative assistant from 1976 to 78].

A member of the legislative body from 1802, Fontanes served as its president from 1804 to 1808.

Either way, the result is likely to speed along state legislative proposals from both corners, experts said, but less so from the middle.

Each province holds elections for a single-chamber legislative assembly, from which a premier and cabinet are selected; legislators serve for five-year terms.

Forecourt suppliers have been under new legislative pressure from Tuesday to provide 2.5% of all diesel and petrol from crop-based sources to reduce carbon pollution.

*Bar county executive candidates from spending more than $50,000 of their own money and legislative candidates from spending more than $5,000 of their own money.

He worked for Mr. Menendez as a senior legislative aide from 1993 to 1995 and then as his national security adviser from 2001 to 2003.