Example sentences for: legislatures

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

  • For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.

  • 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.

  • The WP front reports a growing reaction in a number of legislatures to the ever-increasing number of people who are prevented from voting because of their criminal records: give felons back the right to vote anyway.

  • Casino owners will avidly lobby Congress and state legislatures to enact the recommendations into law.

  • In designing state plans, LSC instructed its 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.


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