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- noun Plural form of
senate .
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Examples
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Academic unions are the latest in a long line of structures--from medieval collegia to modern faculty senates, with which unions coexist--designed to defend against threats to censor curricula, violate institutional autonomy, and intimidate scholars.
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Other new bodies to be created include clinical senates, Public Health England, Healthwatch England, Health Education England, citizens' panels, local education and training boards, and health and wellbeing boards.
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I think it might be time to try to convert some of our state senates, into parliamentary systems, where people statewide vote for a slate of candidates, and the candidates are apportioned based on the popular vote.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I’m Almost Glad I Am Getting Old… 2010
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New York ranks 40th in the nation, dragging along at the bottom third, with state senates that have fewer than 20% women, such as Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Bill Samuels: Why Electing More Women Will Help Reform Albany Bill Samuels 2010
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Whether the sound of loathing emanates from a club, fraternity, the washrooms of senates or courtrooms or corporate boardrooms or belief systems or in the media -- the rhetoric leads to one dark place, one dangerous zone: the denial of the dignity and rights of women, and the sanctioning of that denial.
Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman" Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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I am tired of paying for his and the rest of the senates health care, let them pay for their own; they can afford it with there nice fat pay checks and with all of raises that they vote for themselves.
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Obama + those senates who work so hard day & night for this bill.
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And I feel sorry for (R) senates the more they oppose the more they fail Because the reality is millions of the people like me need change & help out for health care that we can afford.
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Unlike all the current changes in the houses and senates version of health care that is far more likely to reduce cost and increase competition.
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Whether the sound of loathing emanates from a club, fraternity, the washrooms of senates or courtrooms or corporate boardrooms or belief systems or in the media -- the rhetoric leads to one dark place, one dangerous zone: the denial of the dignity and rights of women, and the sanctioning of that denial.
Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman" Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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