Sentence examples for awaited action from inspiring English sources

At a time when military spending legislation awaited action in Congress and expansion of NATO to the east was being debated, the Pentagon leadership felt that it had enough on its plate.

But a spokesman for the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said that more than 700 nominees, a vast majority, had been approved by unanimous voice votes and that other vacant jobs awaited action by Democratic-led committees or nominations from the White House.

During a temporary armistice in which the forces of Gen. Zachary Taylor awaited action, McClellan was stricken with dysentery and malaria, which kept him in the hospital for nearly a month.

The legislation awaits action in the Senate.

It awaits action in the Senate.

The bill is awaiting action in the heavily Republican Senate.

The bill awaits action by the full Senate.

The bill is back in the Senate, awaiting action.

Those bills are awaiting action by the governor.

Nine are awaiting action by Courts of Appeals, and nine are pending in federal district courts.

Retrofitting the grid of the entire country is a project eagerly awaiting action.