Sentence examples for lower legislative from inspiring English sources

Their twenty-three democracincludedudeightght federal governments with both upper and lower legislative bodies.

In Albany, unlike Washington, the lower legislative body is called the Assembly.

If that level of support continued, it would give Miss Megawati's PDI-P a sizeable block in the DPR, Indonesia's lower legislative body.

He turned to politics in 1975 upon the death of his father, Henry Kenny, a long-serving member of the Dáil Éireann (Ireland's lower legislative house), representing Mayo.

Egypt has had no lower legislative house since June, when courts dissolved the last one after declaring the election rules which produced it to be unfair.

Among the 28 member states of the European Union (EU), the average proportion of women in each country's lower legislative chamber is 26.9% of the total number of representatives.

"The primary reason [for the new rule] is to protect the rights of real children," a lower house legislative official told Agence France-Presse.

In her DOA job, Archer made about $124,000 a year, but in mid-August she mysteriously quit to become a lower level "legislative liaison" at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families.

The California Fitnessgram data showed that higher prevalence of childhood obesity was observed in lower-income legislative districts.

The governing coalition of the Socialist president, Ricardo Lagos, retained control of Chile's lower House in legislative elections today, but it lost its one-vote edge in the Senate over the right-wing opposition.

Several of them credited Mr. Cuomo for making the bill — which limits the increase in property taxes to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower — his first legislative priority.