Sentence examples for legislature there from inspiring English sources

Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas served in the legislature there, and in the Supreme Court room Lincoln received his license to practice law.

I asked Ursula G. LaMotte, a county legislator, if in the chambers of the mostly male legislature there lurked any suburbosexuals.

Although the Pirate Party, formed six years ago in Berlin, has dropped recently in the polls, it looks poised to earn enough ballots to clear the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the state legislature there as well.

"Saudi Arabia is the most conservative Gulf country when it comes to women's rights, so the appointment of women to the Shura Council, while in the short term its impact is symbolic, in the long term its impact is significant," said Najla Al Awadhi, a former member of the United Arab Emirates Parliament and one of the first female members of the legislature there.

The measure, which the governor signed on Sept. 21, follows a year in which the issue of same-sex marriage erupted emotionally on the public stage after the highest court in Massachusetts ordered the state legislature there to approve gay marriages and same-sex marriages were performed in New Paltz, N.Y.; Manhattan San Franciscoo; and elsewhere.

After the Republican-backed legislature there (with help from the US supreme court) successfully blocked a same-day registration push for early voting, only to have a federal judge restore a last-minute Souls to the Polls drive, governor John Kasich is expected to roll to reelection in the ultimate swing state – already notorious for its voting restrictions.

In both legislatures there is a black democratic deficit, said Ashok Viswanathan, deputy director of the campaign organisation Operation Black Vote (OBV).

"In places where there are Republican governors and legislatures there are moves to restrict access to the voting booth; require only a certain form of identification, limit the number of early vote locations, eliminate Sunday voting".

He took high-risk action to bring the current fragile peace to Northern Ireland, created legislatures there and in Wales and Scotland, established London's first elected mayor, paid back debt, passed a minimum wage, started a new work program for unemployed youth, and began reforming the House of Lords.

While there are some 35 American Indians serving in state legislatures, there is only a single Native American serving in Congress -- Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado.

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