Sentence examples for legislature move from inspiring English sources

Democrats have argued that if the court decides the issue, it would not allow such an exception, so it would be better to have the Legislature move first to establish same-sex marriage.

Instead of proposing an outright shift of the whole capital to a more central site, the relocation forces are proposing that only the Legislature move, preferably to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, which lies about 40 miles north of Anchorage -- and 900 miles northwest of Juneau -- and is one of the fastest growing regions in the state.

The report recommends that Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature move immediately to reform the state's $50 billion school finance system, currently based on what it calls "antiquated funding formulas that over time have become increasingly disconnected from local needs".

A few months later, as the legislature moved to overturn his decision, Perry dug in.

It ceased to be the state capital in 1790, when the legislature moved to Columbia.

Suddenly convinced that other states would follow, the legislature moved the secession convention up to December.

After extensive lobbying on the part of the city's emerging business elite, the legislature moved to Phoenix in 1889.

The outcome was a compromise: Sucre remained the capital in name and law and the seat of the Supreme Court, but the executive and legislature moved to La Paz.

China's national legislature moved to amend the Constitution to protect private property rights, the first time the ruling Communist Party has formally protected private wealth since taking power.

Just four weeks earlier, I had resigned my job in the state legislature, moved into the old black Ford, and driven south to join Bob's commercial fishing crew for the full shad season.

Now, as Ohio's legislature moves toward final approval of a bill that would chip away at public-sector unions, those workers say they see it as the opening bell in a race to the bottom.