Sentence examples for against authorization from inspiring English sources

He took risky stands on many issues: agree or disagree, you have to admit that his vote against authorization for an Iraq war was a singularly brave act.

But some Democrats as well as Republicans say that Mr. Daschle and other top Democrats like Representative Richard A. Gephardt and Senator John F. Kerry are haunted by their 1991 votes against authorization for the gulf war.

Our role is to determine the feasibility of improvements to the nation's infrastructure as directed by Congress, who with the administration then decide for or against authorization and funds for planning, design and construction.

Biden had voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991, siding with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators; he said the U.S. was bearing almost all the burden in the anti-Iraq coalition.

And he supported the watered-down version of the Violence Against Women Act authorization that would have gutted the original law.

Feingold was one of 23 senators to vote against an authorization of the use of military force in Iraq.

As a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, she was an early opponent of the Iraq war and voted against its authorization.

Fifty-four Southern members of the President's party, most of whom normally support him on economic matters, voted against the authorization, which lost by five votes.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut expressed incredulity that two of his opponents who had backed the war, Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, had voted against the authorization, for Iraq and Afghanistan.

(Lee, who was the sole member of Congress to vote against the authorization of military force after 9/11, has a high standing among activists who are normally skeptical of elected officials).

Allen's votes against spending authorization bills that increased funding for troop body armor.