Sentence examples for an important legislative from inspiring English sources

"How we broaden these efforts to include more of our foreign aid programs will be an important legislative challenge of the coming months and years," he added.

Mr. Obama has increasingly taken command in Washington even before being sworn in and won an important legislative victory on Thursday, releasing more bailout money.

Its simpler procedures and the availability of tribunes made this comitia an important legislative body of the middle and later periods of Republican Rome.

Still, an agreement on taxes from the fractured Congress was seen as an important legislative step in a nation that has not approved any significant economic measure in a decade.

While the health care industry was among her top supporters in her 2000 Senate race, the trend has accelerated in 2006 as her political prominence has grown and as she has become an important legislative player on health care issues.

The sermon made no direct reference to the dispute over female bishops, nor to the other divisive issue likely to press in on him, the rights of gays and lesbians in the church, and in particular, same-sex marriages, which passed an important legislative hurdle last month with an overwhelming vote of approval in the House of Commons.

They cite two main reasons (using different poll numbers): (1) the SPD holds a comfortable majority in the Bundesrat, which needs to approve all important legislative decisions; (2) voters are in favour of such a coalition, with 64% supporting it vs 32% supporting a "Black-Green" government.

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times.

As protesters converged across the River Seine from the National Assembly building, the lawmakers voted 329-233 to approve the bill, clearing a first important legislative hurdle.

They seem nostalgic about the Gingrich-led government shutdowns in his first year as Speaker, but they forget that after initially overreaching, Gingrich worked closely with Clinton on a number of important legislative achievements, including a balanced budget bill and legislation to reform welfare.

On the contrary, there are a number of important legislative adjustments that could be enacted now, which would likely have a dramatic impact on public safety in this country.