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Example sentences for: legislatures

How can you use “legislatures” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Imagine we now have been asked to examine in more detail what explains differences among states in "missing returns," since cumulatively the effect is to make states look poorer than they actually would be if they collected revenues authorized by their own legislatures.
Increasingly, patients and their allies are seeking legislative remedies--currently, more than 1,000 bills that would regulate managed-care plans are pending in state legislatures, 80 in California alone.
LSC instructed its grantee programs to collaborate with a range of local, state, and national stakeholders, including state and local bar associations, Interest On Lawyers Trust Account (IOLTA) administrators, state judiciaries, client groups, pro bono commissions, state legislatures, non-LSC-funded legal services programs, and a host of others.
Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs
(One problem: USAT doesn't say which if any legislatures are only part-time jobs.)