Sentence examples for congresses in which from inspiring English sources

Each letter cited instances in prior Congresses in which GAO had reached the same conclusion regarding agency guidance and notices counting as a "rule" for CRA purposes.

"The last Congress was one of the most political Congresses in which I've served," Hoyer said.

On average, the previous five Congresses, in which neither party controlled both chambers, approved 254 bills in the same time period – more than double what current lawmakers have agreed on.

In 1881 first International Electrical Congress adopted the BAAS recommendations on electrical units, followed by a series of congresses in which further units of measure were defined and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was set up with the specific task of overseeing electrical units of measure.

The Spanish congress, in which the People's party holds a strong majority, is expected to pass the bill in late spring.

In the months ahead of the party congress, in which the CPC set government agenda for the next five years, an Internet crackdown was carried out.

But following President Hu Jintao's October 2007 speech to the 17th Communist Party congress, in which he said China must "enhance culture as part of the soft power of our country," the program grew rapidly in scope and ambition.

Attempting to wring any sort of charge from the antics of a heroine who makes endless, teeth-grinding reference to her "inner goddess", or from a description of sexual congress in which ascension to pleasure's giddy peaks is conveyed by the sentence 'Ah!' I groan.' is impossible.

In 1857 the congress, in which the moderate liberals held sway, drafted a liberal, federalist constitution; it ended special jurisdiction for the clergy, limited the power of the church, placed the army under ultimate civilian control, abolished hereditary titles and imprisonment for debt, and gave Mexican citizens their first genuine bill of rights.

In September, North Korea's ruling party held a rare congress in which the younger Kim was given two key roles.

Among the supporters of such an international system of units was Thomas Jefferson who, in 1790, presented a document Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States to congress in which he advocated a decimal system that used traditional names for units (such as ten inches per foot).