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general assembly

noun as in national assembly

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It will also signal of whether the younger and more diverse General Assembly has the power to push their leaders — including Jones — to the left.

Approving a budget is usually the last major item on the docket for a General Assembly session.

The sponsors quickly pledged to reintroduce the legislation to the new General Assembly in the next couple of weeks.

Virginia’s General Assembly kicks off its 2021 session on Wednesday with 402 years of tradition flying out the window yet again because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Stopping the count, Shapiro said, “would unnecessarily halt the counting of votes for Pennsylvania state races, impacting the Commonwealth’s ability to seat its General Assembly by December 1, 2020, as required by the Pennsylvania Constitution.”

The target of the mailing was the then-majority leader of the state General Assembly, Democrat Hugh Holliman.

In this short-lived microrepublic, all the men were members of the legislative General Assembly and had a vote on what was law.

Since 2011, the general assembly has blown through a checklist of conservative priorities like an ace shot at target practice.

All are now North Carolina law three years after Republicans took over the general assembly and installed Tillis as House speaker.

The United Nations General Assembly has just overwhelmingly condemned it.

The general assembly of Corsica, consisting of 1,009 delegates, unanimously expelled the Bonaparte family.

Eventually, the General Assembly of Virginia raised troops of its own for its defense.

Jefferson's proposal was finally passed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1785.

The General Assembly encouraged the establishment of classical schools and academies via revenue secured from lotteries.

One particular criticism was the representation plan of membership in the General Assembly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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