Sentence examples for legislature put from inspiring English sources

The year McCrory won the governorship, the legislature put forward a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which passed with sixty per cent of the vote.

As for any takeover plan, George Oros, Republican leader of the county legislature, put it this way: "I don't think we need $350,000 to tell us it's not practical to take the plant over.

In 1860, the legislature put the question once again to a popular vote.

And, as one state legislature put it, what homosexuals wanted was "recognition".

They developed a unified message for the state legislature: "Put your paws down on the Dooms Day budget".

The Colorado legislature put an end to the unconstitutional practice of putting Coloradans in jail because they were too poor to pay legal fines and court fees.

And many legislatures put off hard decisions about spending cuts, making the current situation worse.

The frank talk is based on New Jersey's history of backsliding on its fiscal responsibilities, which through the laissez-faire financial practices of several governors and Legislatures put the state $32 billion in debt to begin with.

Mr Brown then asked the legislature to put the question of tax increases before voters.

In California, the legislature has put $12.5 billion in school bond measures on the ballot.

The legislature has put forward its own ballot measure, Initiative 42-A, that would prohibit "judicial enforcement" of school funding.