Sentence examples for congress settled from inspiring English sources

That debate, Ms. West said, would have to wait until Congress settled its most pressing problems.

On September 15, Congress settled an item of business that was to have far-reaching effects.

Some wanted to enshrine it even before Congress settled on "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1931, two years after Bates died.

Earlier this year the administration and Congress settled on a ceiling of $686 billion in so-called discretionary spending for the current fiscal year.

In mid-October Congress settled this by exerting its authority and issuing an ordinance forbidding any citizen from privately purchasing lands from Indians without first receiving approval from the federal government.

After two years of debate and intense behind-the-scenes deal making, the Reagan administration and Congress settled on a bipartisan package that cut rates and simplified the code a bit in return for eliminating some tax breaks.

Great Britain and France had sought to assert their influence over Russia's treatment of Poland in the wake of the January Insurrection, but in November the British rejected Napoleon III's proposal for a congress to settle the outstanding problems of Europe.

"Worst of all they emphasize that they have settled with congress on the questions to be asked.

A party congress tomorrow should settle the matter one way or another.

What will the congress decide?

If any canon of construction should be applied in this case, it is the well settled rule that "an act of congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains". Murray v.