1.   Some local legislatures have begun to demand bigger payments from foreign mining firms working on their turf.

2.   As it stands, only a few state legislatures have begun to address Internet voting.

3.   But state legislatures have begun to encounter resistance to their budget-cutting for higher education.

4.   In Delaware, however, the legislature began to designate Chancery as a forum for certain corporate matters.

5.   State legislatures are only just beginning to review their statutes of limitations in light of the DNA databases.

6.   The committee said the provisional legislature should begin operation after the chief executive is chosen later this year.

7.   The full legislature can begin consideration Friday but must act quickly.

8.   House Speaker Harmoko has also announced that the legislature would begin reviewing the five political laws, which define the current political system.

9.   Incensed, the Mexico City legislature began drawing up plans Wednesday night for a law to regulate these companies.

10.   Legislature begins stormy session.