Last month, for instance, members of Vietnam's National Assembly were filmed sleeping while the legislature was in session.

British Columbia's Provincial legislature buildings decorated for Christmas.

Second, the government budgeting process must be opened up through both public hearings in the national legislature and public participation via the media.

She is currently the deputy speaker of the legislature.

France has just elected a new President and legislature.

The bill was eviscerated before being passed by the legislature.

The country's ruling conservatives won the general elections with about 30 of the vote, while National Popular Front (ELAM) earned its first seats in the legislature.

India s parliamentary system requires ministers to be members of the legislature.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the legislature.

The legislature should have a greater say in setting the nation s agenda.

This behavior culminated in 1862, when the legislature blocked a university president s appointment.

In 1790 he was elected by the Virginia legislature as United States Senator.

The legislature commands the power of the purse'' and so makes all the rules.

When Harvard alumni dominated the Massachusetts legislature, the university was given support and consideration.

If the party is able to secure more than 45 of the national vote, the quirks in Turkey s electoral law will give it more than 330 representatives in the country s 550 seat legislature.

Yesterday morning, July 31, the Twitter bot Congressedits, which automatically logs Wikipedia activity by IP addresses in the U.S. legislature, reported a revision to a Russian language article about the Russian national anthem.

A Palestinian legislature and cabinet have opened, as well as Palestinian police and security services.

In the US, for example, Florida s state legislature created the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in 2002.

A battle between the president and legislature over control of federal spending has not been fully resolved.

Is there a case for a pendulum swing back to the more political powers, notably the legislature?

(The absurd consequence is that the unelected House of Lords becomes the real legislature of the country.)

The two are so close that when there a bill that would have hurt Israel Hayom was tabled in the Knesset, Israel's national legislature, Netanyahu opposed it at the cost of the collapse of his own coalition government.

These include our legal system, which is underpinned by an independent judiciary, our legislature, and our civil service.

Instead, Ukraine s president is now increasingly consolidating his total control over the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary.

Confucian inspired intellectuals like Jiang Qing, for example, have put forward an innovative proposal for a tricameral legislature.

They must operate within tight legal constraints, and with rigorous accountability frameworks, involving the government and the legislature.

The citizen reports that a motion has been passed in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature to close the group

It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.

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Both national competitiveness and national security are at risk.

Ríos Montt earned a seat in Guatemala's Congress, and went on to rule both the party and the legislature.

Suddenly, the Civil War is everywhere, in books, television shows, movies, academic seminars, and now in the legislature, too.

Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a contentious legislature helped to bring such practices into public debate.

This could be accompanied by a pledge to create a legislature composed entirely of directly elected members in 2020.

Some in the group protested outside the Hong Kong Legislative Council, while others attempted to enter the legislature building.

Second, the government budgeting process must be opened up through both public hearings in the national legislature and public participation via the media. Such increased accountability will shift government spending toward programs related to people s needs and away from physical structures.

Our Basic Law even allows for foreign nationals to be elected to one fifth of the seats in our legislature.

Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a pluralist legislature helped to hold for such practices up public debate.

Both Houses of the legislature would need to pass the bill to send to the President for signature or veto.

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