legislative branch

collocation in English

meaningsoflegislativeandbranch

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legislative
adjective
uk
/ˈledʒ.ɪ.slə.tɪv/us
/ˈledʒ.ə.slə.t̬ɪv/
relating to laws or the making ...
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branch
noun[C]
uk
/brɑːntʃ/us
/bræntʃ/
a part of ...
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(Definition oflegislativeandbranchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegislative branch

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Thelegislativebranchhas never been the adjudicator of such disputes.
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Moreover, the process of constitutional amendment required the concurrence of thelegislativebranch.
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Sometimes trade policy requires a vote of support from thelegislativebranch.
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Relative to the executive branch, party competition in thelegislativebranchis a sideshow.
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Some separation-of-power systems also divide power within thelegislativebranchbetween two chambers.
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Local governments lack discretion over public resources, as do the executive and thelegislativebranchof government.
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The authority of thelegislativebranchis supreme.
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Unlike a quasi-judicial agency, this quasilegislative agency was neither independent of the executive, the judicial, nor thelegislativebranch, respectively.
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Thelegislativebranchmust also enact federal tort reform to allow providers to stop spending millions on needlessly defensive and excessive care.
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For a generation, labor-management bargaining epitomized empowered liberal democracy which, acting through thelegislativebranch, established a new legal regime of industrial order.
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The president justifies a greater role for himself by tarnishing the legitimacy and representative nature of thelegislativebranchas a competitor for power.
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In this sense, the cited works do not help to sustain the argument that the centrality of the presidential institution means the parallel weakness of thelegislativebranch.
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But in the process of weakening political parties and their stronghold which was thelegislativebranch of government, the constitutions buttressed the national executive, contributing to hyperpresidentialism.
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Because the legislative baseline framework leads scholars to overestimate the sincerity of legislators, it has led scholars to overestimate the success labor organizations had in thelegislativebranch.
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Another issue in the use of congressional testimony is the question of partisan control of thelegislativebranch, and its concomitant influences on the choices of witnesses allowed to testify.
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Thelegislativebranchconsists of a nine member council.
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Thelegislativebranchalso experienced a few changes.
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Thelegislativebranchis unicameral with 36 elected representatives.
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Thelegislativebranchtook its current form in 2007.
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The executive would be chosen by thelegislativebranch.
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The board is thelegislativebranchof village government.
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Its programming aims to explore issues and problems of thelegislativebranchfrom new perspectives.
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This provision was permanently enacted into law in 2000 in thelegislativebranchappropriations.
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The bill must then pass through three readings and engrossment in the secondlegislativebranch.
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He viewed the vice presidential office as being in thelegislativebranch, not the executive.
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