Sentence examples for acts as speaker from inspiring English sources

Boehner, in one of his last acts as Speaker, negotiated a budget deal with Obama and the Senate to raise the debt ceiling until March, 2017, after a new President is sworn in, and set funding levels for the government for the next two years.

The "Where's Dad?" screening was sponsored by the Congressional Family Quality of Life Advisory Committee, which Wolf has chaired ever since Newt Gingrich established it, as one of his first acts as Speaker, to help deal with a serious absentee-parent problem among legislators.

Whenever the lieutenant governor became acting governor, the Senate was to elect one of its members to act as Speaker; that individual then became next in the line of gubernatorial succession.

In two cases Labour MPs who acted as speaker resigned their seat: these were treated as Labour seats for the purposes of the analysis.

The 1799 constitution created the office of lieutenant governor, who acted as Speaker of the Senate, but was not otherwise considered a member of that body.

After the formation of the Fox-North Coalition, Mansfield agreed to act as Speaker of the House of Lords, taking up his post in February 1783.

Dr Maria Råstam has acted as speaker for Eli Lilly, Jansen Cilag and Novartis.

Katydids rub their front wings together, and membranes within their wing veins act as speakers.

In all communities, speaking (or signing) is learned by children before writing, and, typically, people act as speakers and hearers much more than as writers and readers.

The rain hits the lids while the upturned pans are wired to act as speakers.

These restructured papyrus drapes will act as speakers for the music that will ooze from its pores, a layering of metaphors and creative dimensions that aim to both titillate and lead the audience.