Sentence examples for act under consideration from inspiring English sources

The act under consideration would prevent this from happening to anyone running for Congress.

In most democracies, whether or not a woman has ever had sex before is considered irrelevant in deciding whether she consented to the act under consideration.

At one point the president expressed frustration with the welter of demands on Syria, noting that the Syrian Accountability Act under consideration in Congress to strengthen sanctions was already more or less in place.

The Quebec Act, under consideration since 1773, removed all the territory and fur trade between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from possible colonial jurisdiction and awarded it to the province of Quebec.

When deciding whether to act or which act to undertake, a person must calculate as best as he can the pains and pleasures that may reasonably be expected to accrue to the persons (including himself) affected by the acts under consideration.

But lawyers for Ikea said a state environmental-quality-review act is under consideration and would apply not only to New Rochelle but other communities.

She is placing her hope in the RECLAIM Act, now under consideration in a House committee, which would invest a billion dollars in cleaning up mines in ways that support new industries, including tourism and sustainable farming.

You can see that senators have ideas for cutting the military budget from the list of amendments filed in the Senate to the National Defense Authorization Act, currently under consideration.

The legislation in question is called the Legal Workforce Act and comes under consideration by the House Judiciary Committee today.

The Act has been under consideration by Congress for years, but never as close to passage as it is now.

Illinois, nicknamed the "Land of Lincoln," has transformed into the "Land of ALEC" when it comes to a hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") regulation bill - HB 2615, the Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation Act - currently under consideration by its House of Representatives.