senate
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UC’s admissions board — a part of the faculty-led Academic Senate — plans to deliver recommendations in a report on testing in February to the senate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The elections were the first to be held under Kazakhstan's new constitution, which abolished the senate in favour of a new unicameral legislature and reset term limits that would have otherwise been imposed on Tokayev.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The board also dissolved the faculty senate and replaced it with an advisory council to the president, which includes two faculty members from each of the university’s colleges and additional members appointed by the president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The bill now heads to the senate, where it is also expected to secure approval, before being enacted by the president.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Centurion, your party is excused. The senate has other matters to discuss. And, Octavian, if I may confer with you for a moment.”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Since news of the deal broke, he said he has met with the system chancellors, provosts, program directors and faculty senates about the acquisition.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
But the school’s faculty and student senates each passed resolutions calling for a change and the university’s alumni board of directors supported reassessing the team name’s appropriateness.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Voters are also choosing representatives in their local state senates - and in Delaware, Democratic candidate, Sarah McBride has made history as the country's first ever trans state senator.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2020
We are but a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging to you—cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, companies, palaces, senates, forum.
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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Ancient Rome - Introductory
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