Sentence examples for but congresses from inspiring English sources

But Congresses past — both Republican- and Democratic-controlled — have made substantive achievements in the week before the summer break.

But Congress-watchers say that's not how Gandhi's highly centralised party functions.

Dozens of New National Party members oppose the proposed partnership with the African National Congress but congress officials said they were willing to consider it.

Beauregard (who by then had embraced the St. Andrew's cross) wrote Gen. Joseph E. Johnston that he had recommended to Miles "that we should have two flags — a peace or parade flag, and a war flag to be used only on the field of battle — but congress having adjourned no action will be taken on the matter — How would it do for us to address the War Dept.

Initially the NFL had a blackout policy which prevented them from playing in Connecticut, but congress passed legislation, later signed by Richard Nixon, that changed the blackout rule.

From the Civil War to the end of the century, they won every presidential election save those of 1884 and 1892, and they had a majority in the Senate in all but three Congresses during that same period.

But successive Congresses rejected reform bills — cowering as usual before the gun lobby, which deemed it an "arbitrary" interference with its never-to-be-trumped right to bear arms.

But recent congresses have typically lasted seven days.

How do we bind, not just financial institutions, but future Congresses from bailing out the risk takers?

But the congress is, so to speak, the enemy of choice.

But black congress members were not ousted by new white majorities.