Sentence examples for as a procedural trick from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Reid voted against the measure as a procedural trick to enable him to call the legislation back to the floor again as Ms. Mikulski, brandishing a red lipstick as her weapon in a post-legislative news conference, promised would happen).

But as Clegg says, to turn the referendum around needs the people's consent, not a procedural trick.

When there are so many important issues for Congress to address this fall, using a procedural trick to bring an institution plagued with corruption back from the dead is inherently wrong.

Polling bolsters the impression that Walker overreached by forcing the bill through with a dubious procedural trick.

"The Senate minority cannot by procedural trick and from an empty chamber prevent the president from performing his constitutional duties".

"As a" is a trick, a con, a double bluff.

The movie is probably best described as a procedural comedy.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest brushed off the vote as "a procedural snafu" on Friday.

Police officials, including General Socha, also tried to cast the problem as a procedural slip-up.

And Stanley Tucci is the humorless Homeland Security functionary who views Viktor as a procedural inconvenience.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest dismissed the embarrassment as a "procedural snafu".