Sentence examples for us legislature from inspiring English sources

Members of US legislature have been calling on President Obama to seek congressional approval.

The US pharmaceutical industry also has a powerful influence on the globally influential US legislature[ 68].

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.

And the reason that Republicans fully control 30 out of 50 US state legislatures and the House of Representatives is that their 'best and brightest' do not sniff at the down and dirty work of politics.

Ohio is one of the most gerrymandered states in the US – both in state legislature and US Congressional districts.

"It's a message to us from the legislature and the governor that we are not welcome here," Gilmore said.

"It is incomprehensible to us that our Legislature would ban discrimination against heterosexual men and women, against homosexual men and women, and others, but would condone discrimination against men or women who seek to change their anatomical sex," the judges wrote in a lengthy decision.

But suppose they say, well, the legislature wants us to do x but our Constitution requires us to do not x.

"Big Oil is the new robber barons for us in the California legislature," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog.

The problem of reconciling the judicial independence of an international court with the sovereignty of our national legislature brings us into vital, largely unexplored territory of constitutional debate".

Recognizing the Supreme Court as an ideologically skewed judicial legislature helps us to understand how badly this crucial body needs to be updated for the 21st century.