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the highest lawmaking body of a political unit the national emergency required a special session of congress

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Recent Examples of congress The Paraguayan made the proposal at his own congress in April to expand the 2030 edition of the tournament to 64 teams. Adam Crafton, New York Times, 17 May 2025 What To Know In remarks on Saturday during a video appearance at a congress in Florence for Italy's right-leaning co-ruling League Party, Musk expressed hope for the Trump administration to ease tariffs against Europe, which faces a 20 percent generic tariff. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 Ahead of this year’s congress, a recent series of propaganda documentaries on state television have drawn many parallels between Xi and Deng as two strong, bold reformers. Andrew Gilholm, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2017 It was announced by the Firat News Agency, a media outlet close to the group, days after the PKK convened a party congress in northern Iraq. Suzan Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for congress
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  • According to Iranian state media, the country's parliament has also approved closing the Strait of Hormuz, a pivotal waterway for global oil trade, with about 20 million barrels of oil and oil products traversing through it each day.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 June 2025
  • Mohsen Qomi, candidate for the Assembly of Experts casts his ballot at a polling station in Iran's capital Tehran during elections to select members of parliament and a key clerical body on March 1, 2024.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
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  • The meeting did not happen, though Biden was Vice President when then-President Barack Obama negotiated a pact that effectively sidelined Iran’s nuclear program until Trump withdrew from it in 2018.
    Karl Vick, Time, 23 June 2025
  • At its most recent meeting on June 10, the city council voted unanimously to table discussion of rezoning plans until June 24.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
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  • For organizations struggling with capacity or skill gaps, CTEM can deliver actionable insights and reduce noise, helping SOC teams become more effective.
    Seemant Sehgal, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • For the Giants to part with Harrison demonstrates the organization’s great faith in their other young starters — Hayden Birdsong and Landen Roupp, along with left-hander Carson Whisenhunt at Triple-A Sacramento.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 16 June 2025
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  • Trump also signed on his first day back in office an order declaring that the government recognizes only two sexes, male and female.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 20 June 2025
  • Lucas, a critic of diversity and inclusion programs and proponent of the idea that there are only two immutable sexes, repeatedly declared that the commission is not independent and vowed to enthusiastically follow Trump's executive orders.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
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  • Hoffman, 60 and also a top Democrat in the legislature, is a member of the state Senate first elected in 2012.
    Yezen Saadah, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • In addition, there are 10 states where the governor and state legislature have initiated the process of phasing their state income tax to zero: Arizona, Iowa, Indiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Utah and Arkansas.
    Grover Norquist, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
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  • But as the decades rolled on, the conventions of these temples to excess calcified.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
  • And there will never be another album like There’s a Riot Goin’ On, which is the sound of a genius straining against the edges of convention; of a teeming mass fighting for freedom; of love being found in a hopeless place.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 June 2025
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  • Stringer/Getty Images There are 59 active conflicts between nation states, an increase from last year and the most since World War II, according to the institute's 2025 Global Peace Index.
    Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • For teachers, Brazil also launched a series of immersion retreats on the Paideia proposal in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, as well as a graduate institute at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
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  • American society and our relations with other societies are driven by the competition/conflict choice.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Insiders describe relations between her and brother Santo as tense and combative.
    Mattia Dognini, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025

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