Sentence examples for legislatures from inspiring English sources

Over several weeks the Guardian led the global coverage of the Snowden revelations, leading to changes in the law and numerous debates in the US Congress, the UK parliament, and legislatures around the world.

Or members of devolved legislatures promoting pro-growth policies".

Most political theorists hold the view that small, homogeneous countries such as Ireland are best served by unicameral legislatures.

When European elites – German politicians in particular – now talk about political union, this is what they are thinking about: weaken legislatures, the ones in the south in particular, and establish close supervision of national budgets by supranational, unelected institutions such as the European commission in Brussels.

At times outstripping the viewership of its TV iteration by a factor of 10, the YouTube channel of HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver was perhaps 2014's most reliable source of online video, tackling such potentially bewildering subjects as US state legislatures and Ugandan homophobia with a mix of goofy humour and devastating evidence.

Opponents of the Affordable Care Act from Florida to Tennessee deploy regulatory roadblocks, such as refusing healthcare "navigators" access to county health departments, inspired by the "massive resistance" southern governors and legislatures used to repulse desegregation.

The essential principle of democracy is that no single part of a vibrant democratic system - the judiciary, media, campaigners or interest groups, political parties, legislatures or local governments - can alone confront the authoritarian state.

Rick Santorum has been scary good at this; even after bowing out of the presidential race, he uses his earnest fearmongering to gin up excitement at venues such as the National Rifle Association convention and, more significantly, Republican gatherings at the county level, where his support can help the creeping far-right agenda that continues to eat away at civil rights in state legislatures.

The conference will help presidents press the private sector and legislatures to get serious about public security, says an official from the Central American Integration System, the regional body which convened it.

Mr Clement, who takes the lectern at the Supreme Court about as regularly as the rest of us brush our teeth, seemed to persuade a majority of the justices that Arizonans' "avowed effort to redelegate [redistricting] authority to an unelected and unaccountable commission is plainly repugnant to the Constitution's vesting of that authority in the legislatures of the states".

More egregiously, they passed a bill to abolish direct elections for hundreds of local posts (such as mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta) and to have the jobs filled by indirect elections in local legislatures instead.