Sentence examples for legislature changes in from inspiring English sources

Not wishing to rally behind his opponent, Bret Schundler, Republican bosses rammed through the legislature changes in the filing deadline and for the primary itself.

The legislature changed it in some ways I wouldn't have thought about.

Ms. Perdue had less than half that number of appointees to work with, but the Republican-controlled legislature changed the rules in 2010 and allowed the new governor a much larger number of appointees in exempt positions.

The legislature changed the routes in 1965, swapping Routes 17 and 680 south of Warm Springs, and creating a new SR 262 on the short roadway at Warm Springs where they had overlapped to switch sides.

Governors here had the power to fill Senate vacancies until 2004, when the Democratic majority in the legislature changed the law to require a special election.

A referendum in 1990 instituted universal suffrage, and in 1997 the legislature changed the country's name from Western Samoa to Samoa, despite protests from neighbouring American Samoa.

The legislature changed the law against that ruling.

"I don't foresee any movement in our Legislature to make any changes in existing gun laws.

Last year, the Florida legislature made a few changes in the laws, and cut down on the wholesale awards of permanent alimony to all, but did nothing to protect people who want or need to retire, and nothing to help the thousands of payers already burdened by crushing debt, with no light, ever, at the end of the tunnel.

Current changes in legislature now emphasise quality of care more than ever.

One thing that the legislature did not change in 2002 was tenure, which was introduced in New York in 1917, as a good-government reform to protect teachers from the vagaries of political patronage.