legislative assembly

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Recent Examples of legislative assembly This sparring escalated with the UMC General Conference in May 2024 in Charlotte, when the international legislative assembly removed LGBTQ+ restrictions. Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2025 In February 2020, amid a standoff with the political opposition, Bukele threatened to dissolve the Legislature, bringing with him armed soldiers to occupy the legislative assembly. Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025 El Salvador’s legislative assembly, where Bukele’s New Ideas party holds a supermajority of 54 out of 60 seats, on Thursday voted to approve a series of constitutional reforms which could pave the way for Bukele to govern indefinitely. Elizabeth Bratton, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025 Southern Baptist Convention convened for 2025 annual legislative assembly in Dallas, where the denomination tackled proposals dealing with financial oversight. Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for legislative assembly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legislative assembly
Noun
  • New York City's Democrat-Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, but can't do it without approval from the general assembly.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Gennez additionally announced the establishment of a general assembly on the future of visual arts in Flanders.
    News Desk, Artforum, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Christopher Walters, deputy executive counsel with the Landry administration, said at a May legislative hearing that the state has identified about 390 prisoners who might be eligible to be paroled and deported.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 24 Nov. 2025
  • With the session ended, here are the legislative asks Greenberg did — and didn't — get from the General Assembly.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Peruvians will also choose a bicameral Congress for the first time in more than 30 years, following recent reforms of the legislature that will concentrate a great deal of power in the new upper chamber.
    Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The pro-military bloc holds nearly 90% of the seats in the two-chamber legislature.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This is a huge immediate problem for India and other low-income nations where rice or other grains consumed directly dominate diets.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Spouses and roommates appeared to share bacteria, even when their diets differed.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026

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