Sentence examples for as recess from inspiring English sources

(Two others are serving as recess appointments).

Three Supreme Court justices were also initially put on the court as recess appointments.

Three Supreme Court justices were also initially put on the court in modern times as recess appointments.

Frustrated over delays in the Senate's consideration of two controversial nominees, President Bush says he might bypass Congress altogether and name them as recess appointments.

Because President Barack Obama had bypassed the Senate, which is supposed to vet senior appointments, and installed three members of the board as "recess appointments" when the Senate said it was not in recess, Noel Canning sued, and won.

Half of April, half of May, and nearly every day from August all the way to Election Day, members of Congress are off on something called "constituent work week," also known as "recess," or junketeering, fund-raising, vacationing or campaigning.

Trackball: It's not as recessed and the well that it resides in is like a Cadillac.

Second, periods of intra-session adjournment shorter than 10 days are "presumptively" too short to count as recesses that trigger the president's recess appointments power.

The difference was brought about by the more frequent recesses as well as longer recess durations of uniparental sanderlings compared to biparental sanderlings (Table 1, see Fig. 2 for an example).

Administration officials had hoped that Congress would be able to adopt legislation before going into recess as early as next month.

Any movie is fine for recess, as long as you don't spend too much time on it.