Sentence examples for legislator from inspiring English sources

Just the other week, an Indiana legislator pitched a hissy fit over the girl scouts, the US version of the girl guides, accusing them of promoting lesbianism and feminism and, worst of all, working hand in glove with Planned Parenthood.

She could arguably have more influence as a talking head than as a legislator, especially considering her rather lackluster attendance record as an actual congressperson.

Yet this was the year of magical thinking in Missouri, where a Republican legislator just filed a bill that would require abortions to be approved by the biological father, as if impregnating a woman somehow endows him with authority over her body.

Leonel is a reference to Leonel Alves, a Macau legislator and lawyer who was hired by Sands Macau.

The now long-retired state legislator then admitted "I like to think it was 44 votes, he says it was 43" before settling on 43½ as a fair compromise.

And a little more conservative scepticism over the next few years may transform her into a far more formidable legislator than Mr Moynihan ever was.

"They call us yellow outside and white on the inside," said legislator Audrey Eu as she distributed plastic bananas at the march.

One legislator, Albert Ho, announced earlier this month that he would resign in order to trigger a by-election that he hopes will be used as a quasi-referendum on the central government's proposals.

And the third is Drew Hansen, a legislator who is trying to get gay marriage allowed in his home state of Washington.

I can't tell you the difference intellectually, emotionally between being a governor and being a legislator," says Tom Ridge, who used to be a congressman before he was a governor.Over and above that, they are pragmatic because they have a fundamentally different constituency from that of congressional Republicans.

Enter Clive Palmer, a legislator and a Queensland mining billionaire.