legislative chamber
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegislativeandchamber
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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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chamber
noun
uk/ˈtʃeɪm.bər/us/ˈtʃeɪm.bɚ/
formal
a room used for a special or official purpose, or a group of people who form (part of) ...
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(Definition oflegislativeandchamberfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegislative chamber
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Theories developed with onelegislativechamberin mind are, of course, apt to be limited in their application.
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The problem is not just one of physical space in thelegislativechamberin which all this diversity is to be made physically present.
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It is conceivable that committee retention rates are related tolegislativechamberand membership size.
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The problem, once again, lies merely in the maximum feasible size of a genuinely deliberativelegislativechamber.
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We also control forlegislativechamberbecause of the typically different terms of office and membership sizes.
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Controlling forlegislativechamber, chamber retention rates increase with salary.
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It is a dignified and traditional feature of alegislativechamber.
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We have to deal with that outside thelegislativechamber.
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But if it is alegislativechamber, as it is in many respects, it is unacceptable that it should meet in secret.
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I submit that it would be quite inappropriate for alegislativechamberto take that kind of administrative decision into its own hands.
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This is the onlylegislativechamberin the world which does not consider income and expenditure together.
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One cannot run anylegislativechamberwithout ballast.
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Does he agree that this is a debating chamber as well as alegislativechamber?
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It is perhaps the greatest collection of people with much outside experience of anylegislativechamberanywhere.
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A modernlegislativechambershould be built in the middle of the country to which people could gain easy access.
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The rapporteur, quite rightly, also rules out the idea of a second or even a thirdlegislativechamber.
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This is alegislativechamberin which serious work is required!
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It is the onlylegislativechamberin the western world that does so.
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It confuses the respective spheres of alegislativechamberand the executive.
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As has already been mentioned in this debate, the starting point of constitutional change should not be the composition of alegislativechamber.
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