Sentence examples for the legislatures from inspiring English sources

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the legislatures

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A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.

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The legislatures of the old Confederacy are solidly Republican.

Partisan rancor in the legislatures verged on bloodshed.

Dozens of bills have been put before the legislatures of more than half the states.

In both states, Democrats run every statewide office and both houses of the legislatures.

Now the corporations control the legislatures — and Congress — through financing of election campaigns and media ads.

The legislatures in a few American states normally meet only in odd-numbered years.

Last week the legislatures in both Maine and New Hampshire passed bills recognising same-sex marriage.

Republicans netted five governor's seats, while in the legislatures, the surge was even more pronounced.

Radically parliamentarian constitutions were adopted in all three; the legislatures clearly predominated over the executive.

Rockefeller's Standard Oil had the legislatures eating out of its hand.

The Christian Democrats had controlled the legislatures in all three states.

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