Sentence examples for legislature whose from inspiring English sources

In a part-time citizen legislature whose conflict-of-interest rules have been questioned, such a situation only adds to the calls for change.

Locking in the changes he seeks and solidifying his legacy may be difficult because Mr. Calderón, who won a narrow victory in 2006, faces a divided legislature whose members are already focusing on next year's election.

Additionally, there is no constitutionally mandated representation of the provinces in the upper house of the federal legislature, whose members are appointed by the central government (though they are chosen, by convention, in a way that ensures provincial representation).

Mr. Zhang, 61, is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a sort of honorary legislature whose seats are often distributed by the party as political rewards.

The Organization of American States, the European Community and the United States have been considering what steps to take, including a suspension of aid, if the Haitian government seats a new legislature whose legitimacy is questioned.

But the board firmly lobbed the job of fixing Nassau's stubborn financial problem back not only to Mr. Gulotta, but also to the County Legislature, whose members are often deeply divided.

That ruling affected more than 30 state legislatures whose seats had been unfairly apportioned, with more power going to rural areas than to cities.

But the real threat to the public lands is not from Congress, or the state legislatures, whose laws would almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional.

A President may fancy that he has a mandate (and, morally, he may well have one), but the two separately elected, differently constituted, independent legislatures whose acquiescence he needs are under no compulsion to agree.

Since many legal systems have legislatures whose powers are not clearly delimited, and since no community has an uncontroversial shared set of canons of statutory interpretation that answer all questions of interpretation, it is quite plausible to say that no legal system has a rule of recognition on Dworkin's understanding of such a rule.

More Democrats were elected by the voters than had been by state legislatures, whose apportionment at the time favored Republican-leaning rural areas.