How to Use legislative assembly in a Sentence

legislative assembly

noun
  • Morales noted that the legislative assembly was required by law to vote on his resignation.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In Old English, a moot (or mot, or gemot) was a judicial or legislative assembly.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In the absence of a legislative assembly, Abbas has ruled by decree for 15 years.
    — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The election results will determine the governments of the five legislative assemblies for the next five years.
    — Shabnam Dohutia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The law passed by El Salvador’s legislative assembly makes no mention of mining.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • Work began on logistics, everything from license plates and a flag to electing the new legislative assembly.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And this is an amendment that requires the support of the two houses of the federal parliament and the legislative assemblies of at least two-thirds of the states.
    — Yonatan Fessha, Quartz Africa, 31 July 2019
  • He has been accused of consolidating power, and marching troops into the legislative assembly to get a bill passed among other things.
    — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • Elections to the legislative assembly have not been held since, and top political leaders are frequently detained.
    — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The law was approved with 67 votes in favor, according to a tweet by the legislative assembly’s official account.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Morales, who is the key link between Alvarado and the legislative assembly, resigned after being grilled by that body over the creation of the data unit.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Future legislative assemblies would be able to raise taxes without needing voter approval, so long as it is offset by decreasing the income tax.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 15 June 2026
  • In 1837, a new monarch dissolved Hanover’s legislative assemblies and cast aside its constitution.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Only 14 out of the 33 legislative assembly seats are directly elected, the rest being doled out to interest groups.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The president-elect will need to negotiate with a highly fragmented legislative assembly.
    — Amy Erica Smith, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Yellowknife is also the capital of the Northwest Territories, and there are daily tours of the legislative assembly.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The race was expected to be tight, with pollsters predicting that no party would gain a majority of seats in the legislative assembly, resulting in some form of coalition partnership.
    — Swati Gupta, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • One candidate competing in the first round of the legislative assembly elections on Sunday suggested that a rival party was financed by Jews.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Since there is no state government, or state legislative assembly, the central government and Parliament have taken power to remove the article.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • According to Rathore, one of the two unresolved issues concerns 12 seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees in the legislative assembly.
    — ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • On a faraway planet with perfectly logical beings, there was a legislative assembly consisting of 100 members who met every day.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
  • While Jammu and Kashmir will still be able to elect its own legislative assembly, all of its administrative regions are now largely controlled by the central government.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Now, regional legislative assemblies worldwide have been voting on whether to ratify regionalization.
    — Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In 2006, Hamas triumphed over Fatah in legislative assembly elections, starting a deadly struggle between the two groups.
    — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Puducherry is one of three of India’s eight union territories—the other two are Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir—that have legislative assemblies.
    — Shabnam Dohutia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Owners unable to look after their old elephants can also hand them over for a nominal fee, Kerala forests and wildlife minister, K Raju, told the state legislative assembly.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 13 June 2019
  • There is also a tradition of former cosmonauts leaving spaceflight and going into the Russian legislative assembly, the Duma.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Around that time, the legislative assembly of Puerto Rico passed Act 22, which created a tax haven for rich Americans, who started moving in.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The legislative assembly will have powers to debate local issues, make laws and approve decisions for governing the territory but cannot restore special status as that is the remit of the federal government.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Supporters hope to bring a vote before the legislative Assembly’s term finishes at the end of April, and before the new, more conservative Assembly that was elected last month is seated.
    — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018

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