law-makers

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law-makers - persons who make or amend or repeal laws

legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly

scrutin uninomial system, scrutin uninominal voting system, single-member system, uninominal system, uninominal voting system - based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district

authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"

senate - assembly possessing high legislative powers

Congress, U.S. Congress, United States Congress, US Congress - the legislature of the United States government

house - an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses"

legislative council - a unicameral legislature

assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose

congress - a national legislative assembly

diet - a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

parliament - a legislative assembly in certain countries

Duma - a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR

sergeant at arms, serjeant-at-arms - an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands

appropriation - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

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As a company of law-makers you may or may not be excellent people--that is, I suppose, according to one's political opinions.

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'Parents who never showed their love, complain of want of natural affection in their children; children who never showed their duty, complain of want of natural feeling in their parents; law-makers who find both so miserable that their affections have never had enough of life's sun to develop them, are loud in their moralisings over parents and children too, and cry that the very ties of nature are disregarded.

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He said that the federal government supports the present set-up in Sindh but some serious law-makers of the PPP have approached the PTI to come forward for bringing a change in the province.

Fawad asks PPP to elect new Sindh Chief Minister

The House is returning the first woman to the speaker's office as Democrats take the majority with a large class of new law-makers.

Pelosi's people pledge as Congress convenes

THE International Football Association Board - the game's law-makers - has been tweeting smugly about the perceived success of VAR.

THE International Football Association Board []

The message that goes out to the masses is that our law-makers preach what they themselves don't practise.

Senate elections

THE roll-out of video assistant referees throughout professional football will move one step closer today when the game's law-makers meet in Zurich.

Roll-out closer; FOOTBALL SHORTS VAR

People are dying because of NHS cutbacks, they are going hungry and freezing because of lack of benefits, schools are closing down, and we are being robbed by a system designed by the law-makers to hide their money!

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Arkansas ended the last fiscal year with a $177.4 million surplus, and law-makers are set next week to begin budget hearings for the next fiscal year.

Report: Arkansas revenue down again in September

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court has admitted a petition filed by PML-N ex-senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah seeking directives for acceptance of resignations by MQM law-makers.

Zafar Ali Shah's petition on MQM resignations admitted for hearing

The European Economic and Social Committee, whose members include trade unionists and employers, advises EU law-makers. It will visit Stormont and Belfast City Hall.

EU body visit to Belfast in bid for peace

As powerful Washington law-makers attacked Moscow over its strong support for Assad's regime, another annual round of a GCC-Russian dialogue for strategic co-operation, this time held in Kuwait, on Feb.