Sentence examples for representative congress from inspiring English sources

Even here, Rome is much the stronger flavor in the final mix: Americans have an elected, representative Congress, with an upper house named after the executive body of the Roman state, not a council chosen by lot that carries out laws directly voted by the citizens.

Group-level controls were city, industry, ownership, scale, labor/capital intensive, human capital stock, and labor rights protection institutions (including trade union, party branch, or employees' representative congress).8 Table 2 presents the basic distribution of the above variables.

Five new members would be a small but significant step toward a more representative Congress.

"This is a really clear example of why it's important that we have a representative Congress.

It aimed to give a representative Congress broad power to tax and to regulate - to do all sorts of things that Parliament could not properly do precisely because the new Congress, unlike the old Parliament, would be elected by American voters who could vote the bums out if we disliked the taxes, or the duties or the excises or the imposts or the penalties or the regulations.

HOWAR ZIAD Representative Kurdistan Regional Government United Nations Liaison Office New York, April 12 , 2004

Amowi Phillips, international representative, Mmofra Foundation, Accra, Ghana.

Along with my concerns about how representative MK is.

Saket Mani, children and youth representative, United Nations, Pune, India.

Not for nothing is Kipling's representative Indian Army N.C.O.

Public life co-chair, Task Force on Expanding National Service; representative, White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable; representative, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; and various other board positions.