senate

[ˈsenət]

Definition:
1. Assembly possessing high legislative powers.

Use 'senate' in a sentence:

1. The Senate is several days from finishing its work because of the delaying tactics of a few members.
2. Murray has joined other Senate Democrats in blocking the legislation.
3. A third of the Senate and the entire House are up for re-election.
4. Secretary of State John Kerry debated with members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in the first publichearing on the Iran nuclear deal.
5. Voters are selecting candidates for both U.S. Senate seats and for 52 congressional seats.
6. The senate had a session today with closed doors.
7. The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.
8. Secretary of State John Kerry debated with members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in the first public hearing on the Iran nuclear deal.
9. US Senate has passed a landmark bill aimed at ending the country's huge budget deficits within the next seven years.
10. The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days.
11. The new bill would remove student representation from the university Senate.
12. Voters are selecting candidates for both US Senate seats and for 52 congressional seats.
13. The Senate should not be pressured into making hasty decisions.
14. The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax on health insurance plans that cost more than$ 8,000 for an individual or$ 21,000 for a family.
15. In the Senate, the count is too close to call at this point.
16. The Senate approved the bill, but the House voted against it.
17. The childcare bill is to be tacked on to the budget plan now being worked out in the Senate.
18. Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.
19. They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns.
20. The child-care bill is to be tacked on to the budget plan now being worked out in the Senate.
21. When I landed, I went to see his wife, Sue; Chuck was an extraordinary man who had led our defense team in the Senate with skill and courage.
22. Some members of the House and Senate worked all day yesterday.
23. The president seemed willing to accommodate himself to Senate desires.
24. All these proposed changes were part of a new border-security bill that passed the House of Representatives but died in the Senate last week.
25. By the time I was Vice Chancellor, Senate had become a much larger and a much more democratic body.
26. The Senate has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
27. He hasn't decided whether to campaign for the senate.
28. The upper house is called the Senate which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan.
29. Senate Republicans are less gung-ho about tax cuts.
30. Despite objections by the White House, the Senate voted today to cut off aid.
31. The House and Senate are to begin soon hashing out an agreement for sanctions legislation.
32. "The President is the direct representative of the American people," he lectured the Senate when it opposed him.
33. Controversial energy measures are slated for Senate debate within days.
34. The Senate bill would create an independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicare's payment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work.
35. The student senate voted to remove Fuller from office.
36. There is a razor-thin Democratic majority of one seat in the Senate.
37. Under Senate rules, the chamber must vote on the bill by this Friday.
38. Senator Sam Nunn reigns supreme over the Senate Armed Services Committee.
39. The Roman Senate, in the late part of the Republic started dividing itself into two sort of parties.
40. Following statewide redistricting last autumn, black representation in both the House and Senate doubled.
41. Senate employees could take their employment grievances to another branch of government.
42. She became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate.
43. The Senate is expected to pass the bill shortly.
44. After 10 years of negotiation, the Senate ratified the strategic arms reduction treaty.
45. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote momentarily on his nomination to the Supreme Court.
46. His nomination, while strongly backed by the President, has received tepid support in the Senate.
47. The president vetoed the bill, and the Senate failed by a single vote to override his veto.
48. This is the fifth and probably final day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.