Sentence examples for began representative from inspiring English sources

"Nobody wants the government to shut down," began Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, diplomatically.

Just after the year began, Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, wrote to the acting director of Mr. Obama's budget office, Jeffrey D. Zients, asking when the president's proposal would reach Congress.

In Union Square, where the rally began, Representative Nydia M. Velázquez, Councilwoman Margarita López, and two candidates for public advocate, Councilman Stephen DiBrienza and Assemblyman Scott M. Stringer, spoke in support of Charas.

In an interview outside the church before the funeral began, Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, who did not address the congregation, said that Ms. Spruill's death was part of a pattern of violence by police officers against members of minority groups.

As secret negotiations between the French government and the leaders of the war of independence in Algeria began, representatives of the French settlers began their own terrorist activity.

But before the open house began, representatives of several community groups held a news conference to denounce the plan, which would add about three million square feet of classrooms, dormitories and offices to the larger Greenwich Village area, and the rest in other parts of the city.

(Of course, that hasn't stopped Republicans from trashing the effort before it's even begun; Representative Candice Miller of Michigan, who leads the House committee in charge of voting laws, opposes the commission and federal intervention into voting issues).

"With the benefits of quantitative easing essentially at zero, this equivocating action by the Fed is less about the economy and more about its unwillingness to begin the tapering that everyone knows must begin," Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican who is chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, said in a statement.

When the shooting in the House began, another representative said, "They're setting off firecrackers".

The rebels told me that, a few days before the siege began, a representative from the intelligence services had sought out Abdul Karim to say that the Army was willing to agree to a truce, as in Zabadani.

The report's section on testing began with representative teachers' statements, such as "So much time has been consumed with testing, over testing, to the point kids have lost all motivation for the test that really matters".