Sentence examples for * the lawmaking from inspiring English sources

Nguyen Tan Dung, having been tested by a leadership scuffle within his party, now looks set to finish out his second five-year term as prime minister, which he won two years ago in the lawmaking national assembly's single-candidate vote.

And the pressure to get re-elected has rendered the lawmaking bodies of the United States all but useless on economic issues this year.

"But the lawmaking there is terribly warped, so I'll respond on the merits".

Judges, also, often share in the lawmaking process, through the interpretation and application of statutes or, as in the U.S. system, by means of judicial review of legislation.

For one thing, he's trying to oust Republicans who control one-third of the lawmaking process in New York — the State Senate.

Such new lobbying techniques coax more people into the lawmaking process rather than trying to exclude them from the back table at an Albany restaurant.

Others are there merely to advise, revise and slow down the whole lawmaking process.

The commission, which holds much of the real lawmaking power within the 27-country bloc, often takes a softer line.

It is autonomous in its disposition of local revenues and is the sole lawmaking body, although the governor has the power to veto legislation.

As anyone in the state lawmaking business can attest, being worse than Texas and Alaska is never a terribly good sign.

The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, is pressing ahead with his mission to roll back what he terms the "obsessive lawmaking" of the New Labour years.