Sentences with phrase «legislative halls»
"Legislative halls" refers to the specific buildings or spaces where lawmakers gather to discuss and make laws. Full definition
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American parent to the child that babbles on his or her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges — even especially in our law schools; let it be written in textbooks, spelling books, and in TV guides; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.
While southern legislative halls ring with open defiance through «interposition» and «nullification,» while a modern version of the Ku Klux Klan has arisen in the form of «respectable» white citizens» councils, a revolutionary change has taken place in the Negro's conception of his own nature and destiny.
(For those who were absent in civics class on the day lobbyists were discussed, they are the people hired by corporations to represent their interests in legislative halls.
It will only happen if the men and women inhabiting the great gray area of every day life, in our homes and shops and factories, in boardrooms and legislative halls, work at living faithfully in all aspects of their lives right where they are.
Gambling in the U.S. extends from the cellars of the underworld to the penthouses of the wealthy, touching on its way the tenement, the middle - class home, the police precinct, legislative halls and political clubs.
Membership in this legislative hall of shame since 2000 stands at 33, roughly 15 percent of both houses.
By adjusting one's speaking style to the situation, a social worker can be effective in any setting, from a home visit with clients to a court room or legislative hall.