Sentence examples for legislative job from inspiring English sources

Mr. DiFrancesco has been using Feb. 1 as a ballpark date by which he will take over as acting governor in addition to his legislative job.

Ms. Greuel's loss was also a reminder of at least lingering challenges for women running for an executive office, like governor or mayor, which can be more time-demanding and grinding than a legislative job.

"$78 $1000!" Besides, easing the crisis would free Mrs. Jacobs from what has become a full-time legislative job, allowing her to resume work at her husband's real estate firm.

State Senator Mark A. MacDonald, a strapping beef farmer and social studies teacher, knows he may have cost himself his part-time legislative job today when he voted with a majority of his colleagues to approve marriage-like civil unions for gay couples.

Likewise, leading members of the state senate and assembly begged off, knowing that if they lost, they'd also be out of a legislative job since that entire body stands for election on the same ballot as the governor.

The statewide jobs pay more than legislative jobs and don't merit your tears: Ms. Combs makes $150,000 annually, while Mr. Staples, like Mr. Patterson, makes $137,500.

But the biggest favor Dulles ever did for Pforzheimer was to move him out of the legislative counsel job -- "I hated the law," Pforzheimer told friends -- and put him in charge of creating the C.I.A.'s Historical Intelligence Collection.

In a statement, Shami Chakrabarti, director of privacy and civil liberties campaign group Liberty, singled out the legislative rush-job for particular criticism: "The government says it's only plugging loopholes but its existing blanket surveillance practice has been found unlawful.

"Some people think because we have achieved significant legislative goals, the job is done but changing hearts and minds is a much longer job".

My job: legislative page in the State House of Representatives.

The danger is that "as constituent service becomes such a prominent part of the job, legislative duties suffer," writes Dennis F. Thompson, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard.