Sentence examples for bill referring from inspiring English sources
"We have come a long way since the 2000 elections," said Senator Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, a Miami Republican who sponsored the bill, referring to Florida's central role in the disputed presidential tally.
"This is not your father's sagebrush rebellion," said State Representative Ken Ivory, a Republican and chief sponsor of the Utah bill, referring to the wave of antifederal protests that rippled through the West in the 1960s and '70s.
"It is a critical issue for women, and it has been a longstanding, persistent problem and is all the more important right now," said Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine and a co-sponsor of the bill, referring to the current economic downturn.
In another, he criticized Gov. McCrory for signing a voter ID bill, referring to him as "hapless Pat" and comparing him to segregationist George Wallace.
He gave Sterna the description rostrum subulatum, "awl-shaped bill", referring to the long, pointed bills typical of this group of birds, a feature that distinguishes them from the thicker-billed gulls.
Articles across the hyper-local network Patch (from AOL and HuffPost) proclaimed "Protest over SOPA may have stopped bill" (referring, of course, to the Senate's acronymic Stop Online Piracy Act) and many like-minded bloggers announced in a frequently chiming word-choice that the legislation is now "on life-support".
The plan was to have the bill referred to the House Committee, headed by Slah Tarif of One Israel.
During a late-night session in early March, I sat in the gallery and watched the Assembly debate a bill referred to as the Special Needs Scholarship Act.
The heading, which reads "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," refers to a single person.
The statement that Britain was refusing the pay the bill referred to the 1 December deadline, it appeared, rather than an outright rejection of it.
The energy bill referred to was passed in 2005, and Mr. Obama did vote for it, arguing that it would help his home state because it encouraged ethanol.
