But while legislators can strengthen the system, Weill added, CEOs may play an even greater role in restoring the public's faith. |
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Public interest groups denounced the move, and legislators retightened some of the rules. |
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The legislative election will be held on April 5, and new legislators will assume their posts in October. |
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What has the right to vote for the president and the legislators brought for them? |
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Kable may nevertheless have had some impact on the enthusiasm of legislators. |
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The defense minister and legislators should delve further into her words before reacting. |
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George said many legislators and even some ministers are also of the same opinion. |
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One secret of American lawmaking is that legislators and legislatures need lobbyists. |
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John Paul has in mind here legislators who are directly responsible for making law. |
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The factions were also at odds over the granting of a percentage of House seats to women legislators. |
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We were the first province to have female legislators and a female cabinet minister. |
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That is why there are so many parliamentarians and State legislators with criminal backgrounds. |
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The ruling legislators said the Cabinet might as well be disbanded since it is not operating as a team. |
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The legislators were anxious to prevent a person from claiming unfair dismissal on retirement. |
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However, he declined to explain why the legislators dropped the clause on marital rape. |
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Our legislators play with political fire and vent anger boiling deep in their hearts. |
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We accept that Proposition C sets out correctly the approach adopted by the UK legislators. |
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A referendum draft law, presented by Chai and a few other legislators, failed to advance for reviewal during the previous session. |
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It means that at least 448 legislators have to attend a plenary meeting to endorse the fourth phase of amendments. |
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In the old days, legislators delivered long-winded, convoluted, extemporaneous speeches from the floor. |
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Journalists and legislators tend to treat regulation as feel-good symbolism, a cheap way to demonstrate right-thinking attitudes. |
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Pro-democracy legislators have been invited to the event in a move seen as a conciliatory gesture from Beijing. |
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Although some legislators passionately opposed this idea as inegalitarian, the program was quickly passed with high expectations. |
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But he sat silently and impassively during the demands for an emergency debate on an issue that is clearly splitting Anglican legislators. |
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What he wants is a tame clerisy as well as tame courts, legislators, and news media. |
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He said it was evident in the partial views of legislators in the House of Representatives. |
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The Kansas legislature is likely to try to override the veto, and unless some legislators change their votes, the override will pass. |
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I believe some legislators have overreached themselves in resorting to law provisions to safeguard women's rights. |
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This was considered to be a breakthrough step because some of those legislators are not ordinarily permitted to enter China. |
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Protesters threatened to occupy the council building if legislators and the shoe company continue to ignore their demands. |
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An all-inclusive online directory contains profiles and contact information on legislators and lobbyists. |
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Even now, legislators and other government officials bemoan its vacuity and lack of detailed initiatives. |
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The legislators, well aware that they were being filmed and photographed by the media, sat bolt upright with alert expressions. |
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A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law. |
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Meanwhile, legislators also criticised the Administration Wing for mishandling the situation. |
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Taxpayers, of course, have to pay for this shilly-shallying, directly in extra pay for legislators and through indirect costs. |
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While anti-gun legislators and the liberal media praised the report, its exploitation of fear was not lost on others. |
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Recently, in the dead of night, our legislators doubled their office expense account, even though many have no office expenses. |
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Furthermore, clever legislators can readily evade a constitutional rule that depends on finding evidence of an illicit purpose. |
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This involves the prevailing sense of disregard for life at the fetal stage on the part of legislators. |
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One does not understand why the Congress legislators were keen for ministerships if they could not satisfy the people's aspirations. |
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After Virginia legislators enacted that colony's first comprehensive slave code in 1705, internal rather than outside influences predominated. |
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Still, legislators and competitors do hope to make up ground on the program access issue where cable is a bit more vulnerable. |
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But disagreements over four top-priority issues almost certainly will keep legislators in Des Moines for much longer. |
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The new rules seek tougher penalties for legislators who absent themselves from a hearing, a session or a deliberation on a bill. |
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He alleged that the president had periodically bribed legislators to remove their officers who resisted presidential meddlesomeness. |
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The protesters separately burned the effigies of top local officials and senior legislators they blamed for obstructing their interests. |
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The question of awards and damages should be the purview of state legislators. |
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Could it be that the only sin left in the world today is to offend the sensibilities of liberal opinion formers and legislators? |
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Since most of these states elect legislators and governors this year or next, they bear close watching as to future trends in American politics. |
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Whatever the reason, the continual absenteeism of legislators is a serious matter. |
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In Monday's votes, Labor legislators abstained, allowing the motions to be defeated. |
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With its fiscal predicament in mind, the manufacturer put the screws on legislators to offer it the sweetest deal available. |
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The government and the legislators are also scheduled to approve the selection of the senior deputy governor for the Central Bank. |
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This derogation from representation is balanced against the need for independence from the passing passions that can excite legislators. |
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This body must act now to urge our fellow legislators in the United States Senate to alleviate this crisis. |
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A difficulty unanticipated by the couple, and, indeed by the legislators, may arise as a result of the recipient's unfortunate demise. |
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But whatever the judges or the legislators decide, a court order is no good unless it can be enforced. |
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We must convince our legislators to place roadblocks in the almost criminal misuse of American jurisprudence. |
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The commission asked the legislators to get a wiggle on, start making changes now. |
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The code of ethics falls short of the expectations of many because there are no clear-cut penalties stated for recalcitrant legislators. |
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The legislators in Hawaii had thought of that before I did and the law was airtight. |
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I'm afraid we might have the wood on you as far as reality-deprived legislators go. |
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As legislators, we have to sort through articulated positions and make judgements about what is right. |
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He can placate all those prying legislators who keep embarrassing MLB with hearings on Capitol Hill. |
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Fourth, a pressure group may speed up legislation by writing bills and helping legislators make progressive agreements. |
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The demand came in the form of an early day motion backed by 11 legislators. |
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Use yellow journalism to scare the public into demanding that legislators pass a law to fix the nonexistent problem. |
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The legal action by British MPs and House of Lords members is the first time UK legislators have filed an amicus brief in a US court. |
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Not content with just one target, these flaggers soon dogged the steps of campaigning state legislators who had backed the new banner. |
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Just type in your zip code, personalize and customize the prewritten message, and email or print and mail it to legislators. |
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We must put pressure on legislators to introduce tighter controls on the sale of these products. |
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The individual lawmakers are untouchable for anything they do as legislators. |
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Although the tax cut helped ignite a boom on Wall Street, it didn't do much to change the tune of the city's intransigent legislators. |
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The legislators will have to seek out and punish those who exhibit pleonectic desires. |
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Liberal legislators from across the country heard all their prejudices confirmed. |
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As regulators and legislators established laws and regulations with the traditional economy in mind, they are not suited for the sharing economy and application often remains uncertain. |
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In Uganda, legislators are considering further criminalization of LGBT advocacy and same-sex relationships. |
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As part of the MassEquality coalition, Marc Solomon, a former Senate aide, was working to get Bay State legislators to vote no. |
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The President did not want to alienate Southern legislators whose votes he needed on his New Deal legislation. |
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Selecting legislators by lottery was good enough for the ancient Athenians. |
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In fact, as attendees noted to The Daily Beast, legislators go to ALEC to find ways to fund their campaigns. |
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But the legislators who ostensibly represent them are cowards, kittens, balled up in the corner. |
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Or even to be able to count on the support of elected legislators who could, if they wished, censure you. |
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Every 10 years, after the census, legislators get together and draw district lines in collusion. |
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If we want that to change, then all of us have to encourage our legislators to make funding community policing a priority. |
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Department officials announced that they planned to develop an easy-access database during a joint committee hearing with concerned state legislators. |
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There was that combustive row over guns, in which two anti-gun legislators were recalled. |
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During 1998, kudzu was included by legislators in the United States Congress on a growing list of invasive, exotic plants recognized under the Federal Noxious Weed Law. |
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Rodriguez, 49, was sworn in hurriedly in Sucre, without the presidential sash and regalia, before a session meeting of legislators as protesters clashed with police outside. |
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So you've got the business people, the alpha geeks, the legislators, the military, the policy people and the academics talking about things from very different angles. |
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We want to make legislators and elected representatives accountable. |
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Perhaps a more appropriate figure to compare to the experimental data percentages would be the percent of all state legislators who voted to fully fund the requisitions. |
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This year, it has 50 field organizers working to elect Malloy and progressive legislators. |
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To make this happen, we have to elect legislators who are willing to stand up to the gun lobby. |
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Perhaps the best evidence of the poor quality of Texas' public schools is the fact that its graduates didn't spend Independence Day revolting against their state legislators. |
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Though drafted by legislators and approved by a national referendum, the current constitution was heavily influenced by Fujimori. |
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From gaffe prone state legislators to politically astute Capitol Hill power players, here are 10 of them. |
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The putative purpose of these broadcasts was public edification, though they also often gave logorrheic legislators a platform for self-promotion. |
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The law is the statute that Congress passed, not the expressed intent of particular legislators or articulated understandings of particular commentators. |
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The group included insurance executives and brokers, real estate developers, and former Hawkeye State legislators. |
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Our legislators passed laws regarding consent and record keeping to ensure high standards of quality and care for Hoosier women. |
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Scandal may be forgiven, and incumbency has its uses, particularly if veteran legislators deliver for their constituents. |
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Meanwhile, Wildstein is fighting a subpoena to appear before state legislators on Thursday. |
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For instance, West Virginia legislators banned the bath salt drug MDPV last year, making it a misdemeanor to sell, buy or possess the synthetic drug. |
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A federal court struck down the plan because, in their efforts to tilt the scales toward Republicans, the legislators had created districts with different size populations. |
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Even if the timbermen are purely motivated by the public good, they have to work with state legislators who come to the table with agendas of their own. |
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Over the weekend, legislators passed a law blocking access for three years to hard currency held in high-interest accounts with the country's two state banks. |
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In September, legislators passed HB 1307, which mandates a 72-hour waiting period for all women seeking an abortion. |
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Many states are caught up in a tug-of-war between the will of law enforcement and concerned citizens and legislators. |
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The web site follows both legislation and legislators, identifying the most frequent no-shows, the biggest blabbermouths, and those most likely to sponsor doomed bills. |
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My three meetings with legislators this year is an unscientific sample, of course. |
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In the national assembly, legislators from left and right generally talk above, instead of with, each other. |
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There is no compelling reason why legislators can't wait at least a year to see if the state's finances improve before underwriting a new football stadium. |
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The legislators are boosting quick fixes designed to speed the rollout of high-speed Internet services to unserved customers, from tax incentives to government-backed bonds. |
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Working against the bill, however, were unsettled questions over whether legislators had the authority to change the state's definition of marriage. |
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He says recent judgments in the courts would appear to be a nod to our legislators to go ahead and enact something similar, but this has yet to materialise. |
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They said the terms in office of legislators depended solely on the acceptance of their constituents who elected their representatives every five years. |
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The ministry and legislators agreed on Tuesday that insurance companies cannot underwrite a life insurance policy for a minor until he or she is at least 14 years old. |
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One hopes that Hawaii's new system will not be in existence that long, but don't be surprised if legislators continue to ignore the free market and spit into the wind. |
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As the House debates the measure today, legislators must know that throwing refugees under the bus in the name of national security is not an option. |
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When he was governor of Massachusetts, he reserved an elevator for his exclusive use rather than rub elbows with legislators. |
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And fifth, they can seek to oust legislators who oppose them. |
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However, due to a huge deficit in the state's budget, there is reason to fear that legislators will put financial aid awards for college students on the chopping block. |
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He was also supported by many collegians, scholars, civic activists and legislators, mostly those associated with the ruling Uri Party and the Democratic Labor Party. |
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No legislators and party executives should be included on the commission, otherwise there will be a conflict of interest with their party's interests. |
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They overturn laws passed by legislators, constitutionalize rights not enumerated in the Constitution, even determine the outcome of a presidential election. |
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We do not have to appease the pork barrel needs of legislators. |
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Since legislators are not subject to diplomatic protocol, they have no hesitation in denouncing its participation in ASEAN as a source of embarrassment. |
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We elect people to be governors, to be legislators, to be presidents, we elect them because we believe in certain values that we also see that they believe in. |
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You can thank a crowd of pusillanimous state legislators for that. |
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A handful of enviros took part as well, but a cacophony of environmental groups, legislators and their staff experts complain that they were left out. |
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Consumer watchpuppies by the basketful start yapping, led by legislators seeing a no-lose position to trumpet at election time. |
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As the president set up his postinaugural calendar, legislators worked the phones and took to the airwaves. |
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In 1953 state legislators amended the state constitution, removing the poll tax. |
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Legislatures are made up of individual members, known as legislators, who vote on proposed laws. |
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That leaves room for legislators to fight over school vouchers, a controversial issue already stirring fierce debate. |
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We wouldn't want legislators like Lord Sewel, who gives peer of the realm a whole new meaning by eyeing up prostitutes. |
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The persecution of the Metric Martyrs follows a long line of power usurpations by the EU's bureaucrats, legislators, and judges. |
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Fiscal Alliance to find votes by legislators that it can misrepresent or mischaracterize. |
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These processes allow legislators to cardinalize preferences, even when preferences are multi-peaked. |
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Unfortunately, I think too many legislators think of slumlords or greedy landlords when they think of apartments. |
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Historically, long prorogations allowed legislators to spend part of their year in the capital city and part in their home ridings. |
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We shouldn't be lured into the web these currently term-limited legislators are weaving for their personal benefit. |
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The bill increases term limits for state legislators from eight to 12 years. |
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Such a catchall, rush approach to approving spending plans permits legislators to sidestep accountability for their votes. |
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Artisanal or illegal miners work through local caudillos, mayors, and even some legislators, as we have seen in Peru. |
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It was one of the first opportunities to bring together federalist and sovereigntist legislators in a parliamentary forum. |
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So, cline officials courted state legislators and hired lobbyists. |
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The legislators have now been reinstated back in the state assembly with the Governor Rizik Zachariah Hassan consent. |
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A schoolgirl's proposal to name the wooly mammoth the South Carolina official state fossil nearly died thanks to creationist legislators. |
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Here is a fact that will give you pause. Many states do not publish the voting records of their legislators. |
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Since then, numerous efforts by legislators and residents affected by the roar of cars and air brakes of countless trucks have failed. |
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This followed a decision by Portugal's legislators to adopt a standardization of Portuguese spelling. |
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We in the newspaper business know all too well about typos, so perhaps we're more understanding of the problems than some legislators. |
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The legislators were also bombarded with thousands of anti-ban emails. |
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Caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases are coming under fire by courts, legislators, and trial attorneys in a number of states. |
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Under the Additional Articles, the President and the national legislators shall be directly elected. |
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This tends to place much power in the hands of only a small number of legislators. |
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Pervier said he spoke to local legislators about his concern about guardrails not containing vehicles in accidents. |
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators. |
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State legislators chose the Senate, and senators had to possess significant property to be deemed worthy and sensible enough for the position. |
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Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants? |
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A bicameral legislature divides the legislators into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses. |
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Through the wisdom of our legislators, only the intelligent may contracept, while the stupid are commanded to reproduce their kind. |
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He calls for legislators to determine whether punishment creates an even more evil offence. |
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A judge cannot conceive of legislators as homunculi who have perpetual tenure and always can revise their work. |
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The infamous hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads of the 2000 election spurred state legislators to review their laws on counting ballots. |
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Missouri legislators are half way through the legislative process that would make the ice cream cone the official state dessert. |
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It soon reached a national level, by consulting legislators, ministers and journalists. |
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The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself. |
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In 2013, there were a total of 7,383 legislators in the 50 state legislative bodies. |
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European Union legislators recommend that a new port services law exempts pilotage and boatage because they also constitute a public service. |
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American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators. |
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One even proposes, in a workaday monotone, that the first hundred people in any Idaho phonebook could do just as well as the legislators at making decisions in the capital. |
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Roman law and its institutions were the model for the legislators. |
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This requires some intestinal fortitude from legislators, especially in primaries where voters will want to know how the state budget ballooned so quickly. |
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Assuming legislators logroll with fellow members to ensure passage of pet projects until the gains from trade are exhausted, spending will exceed the optimal level. |
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By 2014, legislators, economists and the IMF were again warning of a bubble with residential property prices soaring and the level of personal mortgage debt expanding. |
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A conference committee is appointed when the two chambers cannot agree on the same wording of a proposal, and consists of a small number of legislators from each chamber. |
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The Diaspora vote remains to be the bone of contention considering SDSM' demand that Macedonia's expats be denied their right to elect their own legislators. |
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Nonprofit leaders need to find the sector's ch'i before they can defend against assault by regulators and legislators who seek to amend or eliminate the charitable deduction. |
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Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders. |
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That Gaelic had not received official status in its homeland made it easier for Canadian legislators to disregard the concerns of domestic speakers. |
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But we have established the importance of both in the mindset of Vermonters and, hopeably our legislators, which is what makes the essential challenges ahead even plausible. |
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Even after the formation of elected legislative assemblies, governors and their executive councils did not require the consent of elected legislators in order to govern. |
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The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is made up of legislators from the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance as well as thirteen associate members. |
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Since the early 20th century, it has become popular in the United States to include the names of key legislators in the short titles of the most important Acts. |
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Its proponents believed that Federal legislators would be more likely to be cautious about increasing congressional pay if they have no personal stake in the vote. |
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From 1969 to 1971, state legislators under Governor Mills Godwin rewrote the constitution, after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved. |
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Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase. |
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Then, all these...government legislators...would be able to totally concentrate on their roles and functions, without being entangled in interparty sledging and squabbles. |
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In addition to Runner's bill, legislators enacted more ERAF mitigations this year than any previous year, said Will Smith, Runner's legislative director. |
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One benefit of the coming election is that, as the presential race heats up, the legislators may take steps to improve the economy to boost their position in the polls. |
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Crucially, our legislators are so far detached from the general public that they are not in the least bit interested or bothered about issues that concern Joe Bloggs. |
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Each chamber of legislature consists of a number of legislators who use some form of parliamentary procedure to debate political issues and vote on proposed legislation. |
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Historically, each session of a parliament would last less than one year, ceasing with a prorogation during which legislators could return to their constituencies. |
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