Sentence examples for bill proceeding from inspiring English sources

The government's new anti-tobacco bill, proceeding through the House of Commons, attempts to clamp down on trademark diversification or "brand stretching".

The prime minister again played down the prospect of the forthcoming cross-party marriage equality bill proceeding to a vote on the floor of the parliament, but confirmed frontbenchers would be bound to oppose it in any division.

Many Republicans — and some Democrats — appeared solidly on the fence over whether to let the bill proceed.

Seven Blue Dogs on Mr Waxman's committee refused to let a bill proceed without more measures to contain costs.In this section What now for Obamacare?

The bill was almost scuppered during a frenzied day in parliament after MPs initially voted by a majority of just one – 312 to 311 – to let the snap bill proceed.

An aide to Mr. Gramm would not discuss the conversation, but said that by the time the president called, the senator had already decided to let the bill proceed.

The tactic, to overcome a Republican filibuster, would see a bill proceed in a "reconciliation" package, a process that has been used before by both parties, but which the Republicans insist is now being employed by Democrats to ram through unpopular legislation.

Under the assumption that there was a valid mortgage in favor of the complainant and other holders of the same class of bonds, the bill proceeds upon the theory that it is essential that it be determined what claim or right the holders of the bonds issued in aid of the North Carolina Railroad have upon or in the stock in question.

Sound Off for Justice claims that, if the bill proceeds in its current form, the government will cut 8% from the criminal legal aid budget, compared with a 29% cut in the family law cases budget and a 53% reduction in welfare cases funding.

If the new bill proceeds without a commitment to follow the example of Northern Ireland, we will end up with the ludicrous prospect of an apparently non-selective school system in which children in Kent, Buckinghamshire and Kingston upon Thames have to sit the 11-plus while those in neighbouring Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire do not.

The bill proceeded more or less as written.