Sentence examples for an extraordinary legislative from inspiring English sources

The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has only recently been forced into an extraordinary legislative pause and then partial retreat on his NHS plans, after Liberal Democrats insisted on limiting privatisation.

Republican leaders chose to fast-track the bill in what's known as an extraordinary legislative session, allowing for less debate than usual.

The story goes that Gramm used an extraordinary legislative maneuver to slip the loophole into the bill at the last minute, unbeknownst to other senators or the Clinton Treasury.

Nor could anyone fail to spot that the process has been a mess – first there was the extraordinary legislative emergency stop, and then indecipherable organograms emerged from the wreckage.

The extraordinary legislative session was called a week before Deputy President William Ruto is scheduled to be tried by the court, in The Hague, on a charge of crimes against humanity.

If Congress does not take extraordinary legislative action, we could see tens of thousands of Americans subject to unnecessary illness and hardship.

But I think enough time has passed and people are beginning to re-evaluate his presidency and his extraordinary legislative accomplishments, which are really almost unmatched".

Mr. Clarke plays down, even dismisses, Johnson's extraordinary legislative mojo in getting Kennedy's stalled initiatives passed, making the debatable assertion that Kennedy "would have succeeded in getting a civil rights bill through Congress, but perhaps not until after the election" of 1964.

"LBJ's War" traces, in episodes tied to stories from each year of Johnson's Presidency, how Johnson, the gifted Senate dealmaker who, as President, not only guided the country through the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination but had extraordinary legislative successes, went so ruinously astray in Vietnam.

This brings to a close an extraordinary and well-chronicled legislative session in Raleigh.

The retrenchment in the merchant energy industry follows an extraordinary period of rapid growth prompted by legislative and regulatory changes in Washington -- promoted by Enron and other companies -- that created a vibrant wholesale market for both electricity and natural gas.