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Example sentences for "both branches"

  • Powell, and the legislature was Republican in both branches.

  • Many other questions of public policy were also discussed, but as a rule were postponed to the next Congress, which it was known would be Republican in both branches.

  • Bishop, Democrat, was elected governor, with a Democratic legislature in both branches, which subsequently elected George H.

  • This bill of disfranchisement, notwithstanding the objections of the Council of Revision, was passed by more than two thirds of both branches, and thus became a law.

  • In both branches of the legislature elected in 1799 the federalists had a majority.

  • If there was half a dozen in both branches of Congress who did not stand in entire opposition to any interference with slavery, in this District or elsewhere, he had yet to learn it.

  • By a curious irony of fate, this reckless soldier and descendant of a hundred absolute kings was the instrument through which constitutional government was given to both branches of the Portuguese race.

  • In spite of the fact that he was a Creole, he was immensely popular among the Indians, and seems to have been a natural leader of both branches of the native population.

  • It is not often that such solicitude is felt in Congress touching the membership of a committee as was now developed in both branches.

  • It means political government--the concurrent action of both branches of Congress and the Executive.

  • To do so would require a two-thirds vote of both branches of the legislature, and a majority vote of the people at the next regular election.

  • In regard to both branches of the trade, the sale or barter of the knitted articles, and the employment of women to knit them, evidence has been freely given by the merchants themselves.

  • The men are settled with for both branches of the fishing together.

  • In both branches of the trade, it is the custom and understanding of the country, from Unst to Dunrossness, that payment shall be made in goods.

  • In England, in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania, judges could be removed by the executive upon address by both branches of the legislative body.

  • South Carolina in 1790 adopted a provision guarding against mere majority amendment by making the approval of a two-thirds majority in both branches of two successive legislatures necessary for any changes in the constitution.

  • To secure an amendment requires the concurrent action of two-thirds of both branches of Congress and the affirmative action of three-fourths of the States.

  • Both branches of the Legislature invited Mrs. Colby to address them.

  • For twenty-five years, however, they have held clerkships in both branches of the General Assembly.

  • Mr. Ferrier spoke most happily on the effect of the discussion, and also of the effect of my speech on the members of both branches of the Legislature.

  • Both branches of the Legislatures of all the Southern States contained Negro members; while many of the most important and lucrative offices in the States were held by Negroes.

  • Both Branches of the Legislatures in all the Southern States contain Negro Members.

  • The Democrats kept control of both branches of Congress.

  • Both branches of Congress remained under the control of Jackson's partizans.

  • There was small doubt that a bill for a new charter could be carried in both branches of Congress.

  • Opposes election of judges by both branches of Congress.

  • To the Eastward he was sure Mass^{ts} was the only State that would listen to a proposition for excluding the States as equal political Societies, from an equal voice in both branches.

  • If an equality of votes had been given to them in both branches, the objection might have had weight.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "both branches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both are; both being; both chief; both civil and criminal; both eyes; both families; both fore; both gold and silver; both great and small; both hands; both hemispheres; both know; both languages; both pairs; both parent; both parents; both shores; both together; both vessels; both ways; both wings; certain phases; expressly stated; fair quality; slavery people; stands pledged