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US
/ˈɫɔˌmeɪkɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈɔːmeɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɔːmeɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws
How To Use lawmaker In A Sentence
- This requires that the public and lawmakers have confidence that those entrusted to uphold the law will comply with it themselves, both on and off duty. Times, Sunday Times
- In yesterday's closed-door meeting of the defense committee, lawmakers with the committee reached agreement after several hours' discussion on unfreezing the two budgets.
- Lawmakers also vetoed an administration proposal to eliminate the referendum supervisory committee that is stipulated in the law.
- A former minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, another lawmaker and a top former bureaucrat are in jail facing charges of corruption in a 2008 allotment of airwave to carry telephone signals. Coal India's Overseas Plans on Hold
- Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke.
- But in the process, Renz said, he got an up-close demonstration of how resistant lawmakers are to alter even slightly a policy that the voting public loves.
- They gather nominating petition signatures for lawmakers, raise money for them and sometimes even run their re-election campaigns.
- Another senior Dashnak lawmaker Vahan Hovhannisyan spoke about the current situation in neighboring Georgia and, in particular, called for it to become a confederative state and for Javakhk, a mostly Armenian-populated province in Georgia, to become an autonomy within that state. “Georgian leaders should have understood that the guarantee of Georgia†™ s development and stability is a confederative state and in that case the rights of Javakhk would be protected, †he said. Armenianow
- Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is among lawmakers who have promised to filibuster legislation allowing drilling in the refuge.
- One lawmaker estimated actual losses at $ 100 million.