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There is talk, too, of restoring power and credibility to the legislature, the heart of any representative democracy.

Mr. McElroy said he saw a document at the state legislature that mentioned an opportunity for the president to meet the aliens.

This rule applies to any group that spends more than $500 in any given month trying to influence the legislature.

China's legislature in the form of relatives did not set up the system of parental authority.

The party has also urged that the city's legislature vote to strip him from his mayoral post.

The business to be considered or done by a legislature or other body on a particular day. Often used in the plural.

Its loss, if the legislature allows it, would make California the only state not to offer such a programme.

Meanwhile, the state legislature and the general public have no idea how much land is being saved or even where it is.

The next president will have to deal with a divided legislature and a politicized media.

A measure referred to voters by a state legislature proposing that specific legislation be approved or rejected is a referendum.

Nobody expected him to say that at the legislature. But it seemed to be the implication.

The legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

The state legislature in Michigan is getting ready to vote on a right-to-work law.

If the court ruled for the plaintiffs, as I hoped it would, I would have to call a special session of the legislature to deal with it.

One of the deputies most critical of the project, Nguyen Minh Thuyet, said the vote was a watershed for the legislature.

The biggest cut to education this year, of 13% per student, is taking place in Illinois, a state with a Democratic governor and legislature.

But some think Mr Bush would have been a better president with a hostile legislature to keep him on his toes.

Country is governed by an elected legislature and prime minister, with a monarch as a symbolic head of state.

The past eight years of a DPP president and opposition-controlled legislature have led to incessant bickering and little action.

(Meeting of the) parliamentary members of a particular political party or any other legislature.

A member of the U. S. House of Representatives or of the lower house of a state legislature.

This clause empowers the legislature to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. "

but they know nothing about the hook of hooks with which to angle for the pond itself, impaling the legislature for a bait.

He asked the governor of Pennsylvania to make a speech to the state legislature--a speech supporting the bank.

The state legislature in the U. S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online Map.

One day Mack McLarty, who had been elected to the legislature just out of college, came to Hot Springs for a Ford dealers' convention.

The budget put off until the next legislature a cut in the pay of Italy's parliamentarians, by some distance the best paid in Europe.

in theory , at least , the government continues office only so long as it commands the support of a majority of the legislature.

An escalation of rhetoric can be expected in the next few days as China's legislature holds its annual meeting, starting on March 6th.

Analysts said the simultaneous elections for the legislature seemed on course to bring a reduced but still comfortable majority for Ma.

Tuesday, Democrat of Indiana, has also taken the same action, the state legislature not to make the "right to work" bill to a vote.

Asari have no politicians or elections, but a free-wheeling, all-inclusive legislature that citizens can participate in at will.

And yet as late as 1851, a committee appointed by the State Legislature of New York solemnly defended the thoroughgoing use of bloodletting.

Mr Cheng did not disclosed to the legislature his majority shareholding in Asia Ford Consultants.

Britain was first to put most of these elements in place. It helps to have an impotent legislature.

Before taking effect, the agreement must be approved by the national legislature of each of the countries.

Can be expected that in the next few years, the local state legislature will have the paint beyond the enterprise.

To take up for reconsideration, as a matter previously acted on by a legislature.

Her Christian Democratic Union had its worst-ever result, and its Free Democratic Party allies failed to get into the state legislature.

still must be approved by the U. S. Congress, Idaho Legislature, the tribe and the Snake River Basin Adjudication court.

Referendums, in which voters approve or reject laws already passed by a legislature, were the least radical change.

The independence of economic legislature is one of the central issues in the fundamental theories of economic jurisprudence.

If the budget is passed by the legislature, sugary drinks would be slapped with an extra penny-per-ounce excise tax.

Particularly in novel or rapidly changing fields of activity, the legislature may be unable to specify detailed rules of conduct.

But even that change would have to wait until the Massachusetts legislature comes back in the second week of September.

And that's one of the hallmarks of my previous work in the State legislature, in the United States Senate. . .

In terms of the first approach, even though it falls into the power of legislature, the specific methods are not recommendable.

He has withdrawn News Corp's bid for BSkyB voluntarily rather than face an overwhelming vote in the legislature calling on him to do so.

The new legislature , unless I'm greatly mistaken, will be afraid to touch anything in connection with him.

Wing : A section of a party , legislature, or community holding distinct, especially dissenting, political views : the conservative wing .

To reduce the technological transformation project costs, the legislature decided to roll mill site for reaming rack processing.

His case did not prevail in the courts, but his sentiment found support in the Legislature and the press.

and a carbon tax is now wending its way through the Australian legislature.

The Californian legislature has until midnight tonight to come up with a solution to the state's multibillion-dollar budget deficit.

In the criminal field, The criminal policy works as the direction of the criminal legislature and the judicial activities.

The decision to have the Supreme Court sit in judgment over acts of the legislature was a later invention.

The President is elected separately from the legislature and may or may not be of the legislature's majority political party.

The measures came days before a new legislature with a large opposition minority is due to be sworn in.

The legislature was unable to form a quorum to debate the issue after Democratic state senators absconded to Illinois.

Google's self-driving cars may soon hit the road in Nevada if a pair of bills get through the state legislature.

Many have gone through the legislature, where politicians of both parties compete to be "toughest on crime" .

Plastic legislature of the Company in the hometown of bamboo - Sanming in Fujian Yongan.

Responding to criticism, the Arizona legislature changed the wording of the law to ensure that race is not a factor in enforcement.

No sooner had she started in her new job, the New Mexico legislature slashed the spaceport office budget by more than half.

No state has quite so many overlapping systems of accountability or such a gerrymandered legislature.

Himin's rewards for good behaviour include a seat on the national legislature for Huang Ming, the company's founder.

The allocation structure of decision-making power of budget adjustment mainly depends on budget supervision orientation of the legislature.

Until Wednesday, the thousands of same-sex couples who have married did so because a state judge or Legislature allowed them to.

First he was elected mayor of a town. Then he was elected to the state legislature. Finally, he was elected governor of Massachusetts.

To put the vote on the ballot the traditional way, Mr Brown needs a supermajority (two-thirds) in the legislature.

A similar initiative was just vetoed by Gov. Donald Carcieri (R) in Rhode Island, prompting talk of an override by the legislature.

The New York legislature is bandying about a 'millionaire's tax' on families that make $250, 000 a year.

A democratic ruler is restricted by a constitution; a legislature, and courts, but a dictator has absolute power.

The president cannot do much, especially at home, without a willing legislature.

But China's current administrative award from the legislature to implement all the existence of various defects, need further improvement.

On Wednesday, the U. N. Security Council urged Iraq's recently-elected legislature to form a government quickly.

On Wednesday, the country's legislature suspended decrees that would implement a free-trade agreement with the U. S.

Mr. Saft added that any significant change in pet restrictions will have to come from the City Council, the state Legislature or the courts.

Two years earlier, Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker had spearheaded a new criminal code through the legislature.

Under free banking, charters could be obtained without a special act of the state legislature.

The people of Massachusetts gathered in town meetings and selected members of the General Court, their Colonial legislature.

The latest example of Californians losing their green edge is the defeat in their legislature of a statewide ban on plastic bags.

The progress of his idyl suffered a check when the great senatorial fight came on in the Legislature.

Senator Timothy Rogerson was obsessed with the keen desire of leaving behind a lasting legacy in the United States legislature.

That recommendation is unlikely to be taken up by the legislature, but it will still tarnish her reputation.

The norms and practices of the legislature do not foster good policy-making.

Members of the Texas State Legislature, it's good to see you again.

But the key area where the separation of powers is not observed is in the overlap of executive and legislature.

The state legislature typically divides the state into well-defined and numbered judicial districts that have definite boundaries.

The legislature does not even effectively use its power of the purse to rein in the executive.

The legislature does not even effectively use its power of the purse to rein in the executive.

A government-backed candidate in one district says he was instructed by staff of the legislature not to give interviews.

Even the savviest of Haiti's presidents have had trouble with the legislature.

The pro-slavery legislature passed a bill calling for such a convention.

Property tycoons and private property owners wield huge influence on an undemocratic legislature.

It is not California's first attempt to reduce emissions from transport: its legislature voted for stringent cuts in 2002.

One gave the president, rather than the legislature, sweeping powers to appoint judges and prosecutors, pending their popular election.

Phew. But that is the kind of situation that has gun opponents worried about a new bill working its way through the Texas legislature.

But Egypt's ruling generals have established a convoluted electoral system that many fear will result in a legislature lacking credibility.

Republicans control the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature, so can draw new maps without interference from Democrats.

The policy shift is part of a draft revision to the country's insurance law making its way through China's legislature.

He has been a fixture in state politics since 1974, when he was first elected to the legislature aged 22.

When he came of age, Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he held a variety of jobs, served in the legislature, and studied law.

Burma's legislature has four hundred forty seats in the lower house and a two hundred twenty-four seat Senate.

Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

The upper house in the bicameral legislature of many states in the United States.

China Pavilion outside the legislature has a generous tower, square tower above the corner booth is the same as a similar double-hat beam.

The governor's authority includes calling special sessions of the state legislature and pardoning persons convicted of state crimes.

The implementation of initiatives requiring additional funding will be, of course, subject to the approval of the Legislature.

The legislature has failed to make the judiciary, executive and even media sensitive to the cause of the common people.

But in September a senior member of the legislature's Legal Affairs Committee announced the government would not pursue this initiative.

Both measures are expected to be put to a vote before the Legislature's session ends next month.

Guangdong Green Stone Exhibition Co. , Ltd. of Kistler of "sincere hospitality, winning by quality" of the legislature plant purposes.

Although it was unlikely the pan-democracy force would join Exco, there were other ways to improve the executive-legislature relationship.

It is the communication of information that regulates politics and the legislature, the judiciary and the behavior of the police.

I also remember how we tried to form a coalition in the legislature to enact a code of laws that would limit abortions .

And, since being re-elected, he has leveraged Republican majorities in the state Legislature to push through a conservative agenda.

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That very night the city's new masters swore in a new "provisional" legislature appointed to replace one elected under British rule.

That was a day after the Republican governor reached agreement on the plan with the Democratic majority in the Legislature.

Some 19 other states, aside from California, have established commissions, either as the main mapmakers or as advisers to the legislature.

Under a swiftly approved reform of its internal rules, the legislature will now meet as little as four days a month.

pronounced the legislature to BE in session; was pronounced dead on arrival.

Other questions rated the legislature's independence, any special powers it may hold and the resources available to do its work.

Getting money from the legislature has not been easy, even for the newly elected Mr Obama.

The directive above runs counter to the recent efforts by the top court and legislature to reduce death penalty.

To ban gay marriage, the legislature must pass a constitutional amendment in two successive assemblies.

Country is governed by an elected head of state and legislature.

The governor's authority includes developing and proposing legislation to the state legislature and overseeing the state's National Guard.

The legislature's budget conference committee has opted for a $70 million cut to Healthy Families, rather than eliminating it.

On paper she has a powerful grip on the legislature, with over 70% of the lower-house and a majority of the senate backing her coalition.

In its last legislative session, the state legislature made even the tiniest of businesses eligible for aid.

This month, its legislature passed a resolution, co-sponsored by Mr Fong, apologizing for a long history of discrimination.

After all, our principal safeguard is found, not in Legislature, but in the interests of the Women themselves.

The top legislature also requires the ratio be further reduced of Party and government officials being elected as lawmakers.

The agreement must be approved by Taiwan's legislature, which has convened a special summer session to review it.

This month the German legislature passed a law shortening the tour of duty from nine months to six.

But a local newspaper has called for the state legislature to close the loophole.

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

From "Combination of Legislature and Administration" to "Separation of Legislature and Administration"

"In fact, in my memory, I did not say I had no illegal structure, " he told the legislature.

It said this view was shared by many delegates at the city legislature's annual meeting in January, and ran some indignant-sounding quotes.

It is only through petitions that you can reach the Legislature.

As the state began issuing IOUs, a contentious special session was held in the state legislature to thrash out spending cuts.

The legislature has ultimate lawmaking power so long as its acts within the bounds of its constitutional authority.

But in Arizona a bill advanced in the legislature that would allow police to arrest illegal immigrants for "trespassing" in the state.

Tennessee's legislature is considering a measure that would eliminate collective bargaining for teachers.

He hopes, for instance, that the state legislature will agree to create a body with authority to raise money for improving transport.

The son of a truck driver, he rose through the state legislature before winning the governor's office in 2002.

Practice of the "fever" and the legislature on the "missing" in sharp contrast, the contract package travel regulations imminent.

The executive branch carries out the laws which have been make by the legislature.

Shenzhen Daily reported that a gender equality draft regulation would be submitted to the city legislature for approval.

Gov. Rick Perry later gave a similar bill "emergency" designation so that the legislature could take it up quickly.

Even the remaining property-tax revenues would henceforth be allocated by the legislature in Sacramento.

That plan was rejected by the state legislature, mainly over concerns that its passage would harm the local economy further.

In fact, the program has won the support of his local representative in the state legislature.

Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), in the East, was chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1855 as the Farmer's High School.

The draft enterprise income tax law has been presented to the National People's Congress, the top legislature, for deliberation.

Mr. Lu Xun once said: "The Chinese want to keep for the world, its first in oneself, the legislature and then give everything. "

It's possible for courts and the legislature to decide the public has had enough of this monopoly system.

What would she do, she was asked once, if the legislature repealed the death penalty?

His once-unchallenged control on Venezuela's legislature is now starting to slip.

Louisiana's governor flatly refuses to create an exchange. In Montana a Democratic governor faces an obstinate Republican legislature.

The Butler Act, as the anti-evolution law was known, remained on the books in Tennessee until its repeal by the state legislature in 1967.

So in the case of Texas not long ago, the legislature passed a law with respect to so-called spyware.

So new lending institutions and new types of farm loans are piled on top of each other by the legislature.

To be pending or undecided, as in a court or legislature.

The Mormons then formed their own territorial government with a legislature and courts.

Another voter initiative has, since the 1930s, required two-thirds majorities in the legislature to pass a budget.

Burma is holding elections on Sunday. Voters will fill forty-five seats in elections for the national legislature or parliament.

In Massachusetts, the Legislature recently passed new rules limiting what snacks schools can sell in lunchrooms and vending machines.

And Mr Christie's budget must pass through the Democrat-controlled legislature, which may prefer tax hikes to spending cuts.

The Constitution provides for a Bicameral legislature.

Neither a court nor a legislature nor an elected chief executive can be an "agency" .

This spring the state legislature proposed a clutch of bills allowing people to carry guns in previously restricted public areas.

The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the Legislature.

California's legislature contained moderates, normal fiscal management might still be imaginable.

Over the past two weeks, a rare spotlight has fallen on Chinese leaders attending the annual session of the legislature.

You would be right. But for once the state legislature did something smart and passed the most stringent anti-pollution laws in the country.

I especially liked two women professors whose husbands were in the state legislature.

In Indiana, the state legislature is paralysed too, after its own Democratic flight.

Since our state legislature passed the law, California has become a magnet for investments in renewable-energy and clean-energy jobs.

Its legislature has passed another law that will first cap and then gradually reduce industrial emissions of greenhouse gases.

Mr Christie complains that the legislature is dragging its feet over his reforms, but he has made some headway.

He would ask the New York legislature to show its support by electing him again to the Senate.

The armed-police law was passed after only the second reading during the legislature's bimonthly meeting this week.

After voting for the rod building program, the legislature took up the collateral issue of how to raise the necessary funds.

"Legislature is long " Wang Jinping today (7 days) deny Chen Shuibian to look for him of purpose stoutly " form a cabinet " hearsay.

And the whole of America must have been shocked, because one million homosexuals protested outside the state legislature of Texas.

Legal experts are now calling on the national legislature to speed up its consideration of draft legislation on data protection.

The state legislature and administrative power, complete separation powers.

Some observers expect the rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, to endorse the change at its annual session in March.

The governor had called a special session of the legislature to pass a law giving the state the power to modify it.

The Republic of Korea is a democratic republic with powers shared between the president and the legislature.

He offered a proposal to the Oklahoma legislature that would declare Doctor Mudd's innocence and clear his name.

Shortly after the handover, the legitimacy of the Provisional Legislature was challenged.

In June, China's legislature scrapped an amendment to the criminal law that would have banned abortions based on the sex of the fetus.

The same thing happened when Kansas finally held an election for a legislature.

If the Speaker is meant to embody the dignity of the legislature, Mr Martin embodies its fall into disrepute.

He was speaking on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the National People's Congress, China's legislature.

It will now be even harder for Mr Paterson to persuade an already reluctant legislature to help close a widening $2. 1 billion budget gap.

The legislature has been criticized for being too complaisant , agreeing everything the administration wanted .

By the way, the Russian legislature does not prohibit making home-distilled vodka.

This is as true of business as it is of the police, the judiciary or the legislature.

following the regular procedure of the legislature; a regular electrical outlet.

The rubber-stamp legislature has not been consulted.

No fewer than seven bills that would alter how history is taught are currently before California's legislature.

The new legislature could have passed a general amnesty and let bygones be bygones, Tutu told the audience.

I too remember how we tried to tom a coalition in the legislature to enact a code of laws these be to limit abortions.

A loss would cost her government its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature.

to command their forces, and , by communications to the Legislature, to watch over and to promote their interests generally.

A rash of cases heavily reported in local tabloids convinced the state legislature that something needed to be done.

If the legislature presents a good alternative, sponsors may withdraw their initiatives, and many do.

We knew when he was in the state legislature he always voted for higher taxes.

Also, the legislature will now have the discretion to impeach the president.

Pro-slavery settlers elected a representative to Congress. Then they won a majority of seats in the territorial legislature.

But it also needs a simple majority of the cantons in the legislature.

In presidential system, the executive often has a difficult task convincing the legislature to approve its measures.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's government is dysfunctional and the legislature gridlocked.

The American legislature is bicameral; it consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

This month, its legislature passed a resolution, co-sponsored by Mr Fong, apologising for a long history of discrimination.

Poultry was Arkansas biggest business and number one employer and very influential in the state legislature.

in six states the legislature convenes just every other year; and in 38 states, legislators have no paid staff.

Because Maurice loved the give-and-take of politics, he was especially effective in pushing my programs in the legislature.

The EU is not a democratic state and the European Parliament is not a proper legislature, it said.

Many more reforms are still awaiting action in the Iraqi legislature, including a measure on the distribution of oil revenue.

In December next year Taiwan is due to hold elections for its legislature and in March 2008 for the presidency.

The bill had passed both houses of the state legislature by a healthy margin.

Especially so far in our history, China lags far behind others in aspects of legislature and judicature for public interest lawsuit.

Dayton and Republicans controlling the legislature were unable to agree on how to close a $5 billion gap in the two-year budget.

even the Democrat-controlled legislature found him agreeable to work with.

The legislature is housed in an impressive granite edifice.

And in a closely divided legislature, they will also try to take over key committees to prevent Mr Correa from abusing the amendments.

Next week the solons will return to the capital for the opening of the legislature.

I thought their arguments were particularly weak, but the legislature bought them.

Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.

In 1850, the state rewrote its constitution, and new constitution directed the state legislature to establish an agricultural school.

Our aim is: "Quality is the legislature of the plant, information is the root of development. "

The legislature should respect the market rule and balance conflicting interests, instead of imposing overly control or barrier.

The Florida Legislature has approved a requirement for high school students to declare a major interest of study.

The legislature, which is dominated by Chavez allies, is expected to give final approval to the measure before the end of the week.

MONKEY, representing California's legislature, is sitting on a tree and looking silly.

As such, China's legislation in this period offers guidance to the national legislature's present and future work.

In 1962 the Legislature requested the Division of Highways to develop a master plan for a rest area system.

For the practical needs of judicature the legislature should delay no time to make this provision unambiguous .

China's top legislature made public Sunday a draft law on social insurance, the first of its kind in the country.

The Free Democratic Party (FDP), her coalition partner in Berlin, was ejected from the state's legislature.

The interaction between national legislature and mass media can also be used today as a reference.

New York's legislature passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage that was quickly signed into law by Andrew Cuomo, the governor.

they are now represented in the interim legislature and their entry into the interim cabinet appears imminent.