national legislature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalandlegislature
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national
adjective
uk/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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legislature
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈledʒ.ɪ.slə.tʃʊər/us/ˈledʒ.ə.slə.tʃɚ/
the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and ...
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(Definition ofnationalandlegislaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnational legislature
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Thenationallegislatureis a bicameral parliament.
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That task would be handled by the courts, not by thenationallegislature.
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Our indicator of legislative success is the proportion of legislative initiatives of the executive that are approved by the lower house of thenationallegislature.
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All but a handful of states in the region now conduct regular parliamentary elections that allow opposition parties to be represented in thenationallegislature.
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Two decades of turnover data were collected for thenationallegislatureof twenty-five industrialized countries.
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Under a dualist regime, international treaties have no domestic effect unless and until they are implemented by thenationallegislature.
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Among his many worries, his concern that localism would improperly influence the newnationallegislaturewas particularly keen.
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As a result, rural electoral districts with lower average incomes tend to be over-represented in anationallegislature, while urban districts tend to be under-represented.
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However, there are always more seats in the state chamber than the number allocated to the state in thenationallegislature.
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They argued that in a large republic, thenationallegislatureshould not replicate local or partisan interests.
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However, lodging the choice of executive in thenationallegislature, whatever its composition, was problematic.
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Many state legislators insisted that thenationallegislaturepass a uniform bankruptcy law.
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The argument that federal and state governments have different ends leaves barren the claim that the congressional district was to represent interest in thenationallegislature.
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The crucial point is that these legislators, while serving in anationallegislature, are not motivated by the dictates of national policy and national party labels.
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However, there are many ways in which this is handled by thisnationallegislature.
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He highlighted the fact that ours is the onlynationallegislatureso far to have debated this issue seriously.
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It is nonsense for anationallegislatureto make such decisions in such a way.
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Nationallegislaturewill have a completely free hand in deciding in which cases electronic signatures will be afforded the same status as hand-written ones.
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However, in the next few months there will be the presidential election and the election of anationallegislature.
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