Sentence examples for legislature picked from inspiring English sources

Learning that there was only a 28-minute commute from the Metro-North station in nearby Bronxville to the center of Manhattan, where James Carsky worked as a publishing executive, Mrs. Carsky, who is now a member of the county legislature, picked up her preschool brood and moved east from the Midwest.

In Vermont, if no gubernatorial candidate gets an absolute majority the legislature picks whoever it wants.

And right now, in gubernatorial elections, if no one has a majority the legislature picks the winner.

The most dramatically screwed-up presidential elections in early American history -- those of 1800, 1824 and 1876 -- were complicated affairs in which the popular vote was unknowable, either because state legislatures picked many presidential electors or because of rampant fraud.

After the constitution was decided, Patrick Henry, an ardent Anti-Federalist, was so angry at James Madison for working with Alexander Hamilton to get the document passed that he denied Madison the Virginia seat in the Senate he wanted (state legislatures picked senators at the time).

And two, I would anticipate that next state legislative season (beginning in 2015) you will see more state legislatures picking up the issue.

The amendment was adopted in 1912, ending the practice of having state legislatures pick senators.

Republicans kept their nearly two-to-one advantage in the state legislature and picked up a seat in the House of Representatives.

As it moved through the legislature it picked up support, and by January of this year the bill had the clear backing of a majority of both houses.

The United States' first form of government was the Articles of Confederation, which established a unicameral Congress, dominated by the state legislatures that picked its members (there was no national executive or judiciary).

The legislature will pick Mr. Dixon's successor.