Sentence examples for legislative tenure from inspiring English sources

During his two-decade-plus legislative tenure, former Republican Mayor of Spokane and Washington Legislator, Jim West, was quite focused.

Tyler's most enduring effort in this second legislative tenure was saving the College of William and Mary, which suffered from waning enrollment and risked closure.

So swearing to "safeguard" that Constitution is not how they want to begin their legislative tenures.

Swearing to "safeguard" the Constitution is not exactly how she and the others in the N.L.D. want to begin their historic legislative tenures.

"We remain concerned about the primary purpose of the legislative changes to tenure, due process, and shared governance," they wrote, "and we will have to reserve judgment as to the adequacy of the proposed policies to safeguard these bedrocks of US higher education until we see how they will be applied within the UW System".

The cabinet would depend primarily on support by the colonial legislative assembly for its tenure of ministerial office.

Along with high-stakes testing and tenure changes, legislative efforts to expand charter schools are among the most contentious issues in education circles.

The report also builds on Mr. Cuomo's signature legislative achievement during his tenure as attorney general: the passage of a bill last year that makes it easier to cut or consolidate layers of local government across the state.

Long tenure is common in legislative and Congressional offices.

Mr. Raffarin, 53, will have to move fast, for his tenure lasts only until legislative elections on June 9 and 16, when France's 41 million eligible voters are to elect a new 577-member National Assembly.

During the 1995 legislative campaign, Ryzhkov defended his own tenure as Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, claiming that Russians were far worse off under capitalism than Soviet communism.