11.   For its part, China has dismissed concerns over the legal basis for the new legislature.

12.   Fung did vote no, and he has been barred from participating in any discussions over the new legislature or the chief executive.

13.   He had warned that if the supervisors could not agree on a map for the new legislature, he would impose one.

14.   He said an election for a new Hong Kong legislature will be held in the second quarter of next year but declined to be more specific.

15.   If California lawmakers cannot reach an agreement this month, they can return to the issue next January, when a new legislature convenes.

16.   In both new legislatures, the principal opposition parties are the nationalists, leaving the Conservatives in unaccustomed third place.

17.   In December, voters will elect a new legislature, their first ballot since Chen swept the Nationalists out of power last year for the first time.

18.   In elections elsewhere, Mississippi also elected a governor and New Jersey, like Virginia, got a new legislature.

19.   In recent days, Adams has squabbled publicly with Hume on the creation of a new regional legislature.

20.   In short, the Communists will control a third of the new legislature.