Sentence examples for legislature representatives from inspiring English sources

As this debate played out in the South Carolina legislature, representatives in Washington DC discussed whether Confederate flags should be removed from the capitol building there.

The $420 million budget for the renovation project, starting in 2011 and expected to continue for about 15 years, was cleared unanimously after a yearlong struggle in the German legislature, representatives of the museum said yesterday.

I urge you: write to your city council, your county council, your state legislature representatives.

Autocrats subvert democracies by undermining the institutions that sustain them: legislatures; representative local governments; the judiciary; the media and other nongovernmental organizations, such as civil-rights groups; and, of course, an active citizenry.

Representative Ballard is a Democratic member of the Kansas legislature, representing the 44th District.

Its backers reckon that making the legislature more representative is worth the risk.As well as adding ideological diversity to parliament the reform is also supposed to bring in more women: at least 40% of the candidates fielded by parties will have to be women.

Before the legislature voted, Representative Duncan, who chaired the House Judiciary Committee, favored his colleagues with a brief history lesson.

"This is the greatest intrusion into state water rights that we've seen in this legislature," said Representative George Miller, a Democrat whose California district includes the cities of Concord and Richmond, east of San Francisco.

The Founders created a framework within the Constitution that explicitly protects the rights of the minority by ensuring their interests are represented in the legislature, where their representatives can work with the majority to protect their interests.

This adds to a sense that, after 60 years of rule, the party is still unsure how best to govern.It has tried in the past decade to make local legislatures more representative by admitting members of the newly emerging business elite.

Or they could try persuading the 12-member legislature, with two representatives from each classroom, to establish an unemployment agency.