Example sentences of "authority rests with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new Constitution approved in a national referendum on Sept. 30 , 1987 [ see p. 35758 ] , ultimate authority now rests in theory with a 51-member National Assembly , elected for a five-year term ; executive authority rests with the President , elected by the National Assembly ( currently Ramsewak Shankar who , elected on Jan. 12 , 1988 , took office on Jan. 25 — see p. 35759 ) , as head of state , head of government , head of the armed forces , and Chair of the Council of State ( the successor of the Supreme Council ) and of the Security Council ( which was to assume all government functions in the event of " war , state of siege or exceptional circumstances to be determined by law " ) . |
| 2 | National legislative authority rests with the bicameral National Congress , comprising a Chamber of Deputies of variable size which is directly elected every four years , and a 69-member Federal Senate elected for eight-year terms with elections at four-year intervals for , alternately , one-third and two-thirds of the members . |
| 3 | Legislative authority rests with the parliament : the Constituent Assembly ( elected by direct , secret universal adult suffrage in November 1989 — see pp. 37031-32 ) was converted upon independence into the lower house of a bicameral parliamentary structure , to be known as the National Assembly and with 72 members serving a five-year term . |
| 4 | Legislative authority rests with the People 's Assembly ; in elections on May 22-23 , 1990 , candidates of the ruling Arab Socialist Renaissance ( Baath ) Party took 134 seats while the four other legal parties allied with the Baath Party as the National Progressive Front won 32 seats . |
| 5 | Legislative authority rests with the National Assembly , with 125 elective members , elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term at the same time as the President , and 10 members chosen by the President . |