Sentence examples for cup lawmakers from inspiring English sources

After forcing the replacement of Artur Mas as Catalonia's regional president in January, CUP lawmakers are threatening to scuttle a regional budget deal if other separatist parties do not accelerate the secessionist plan.

He sipped from a cup frequently as lawmakers hammered him with grievances.

The mayor of Porto Alegre has now thrown the readiness of that stadium into doubt by saying it will not be able to host World Cup matches unless local lawmakers vote to introduce tax breaks for the construction of temporary structures around it.

But as reports surfaced of customers incurring hundreds, even thousands, in overdraft fees, often for purchases of just a few dollars like a cup of coffee, regulators and lawmakers stepped in.

While he was making those remarks, a senior U.N. official was shaking a cup around Washington, explaining to lawmakers and administration officials that if urgent humanitarian relief funds were not forthcoming, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who fled Mosul during the fighting would soon lack basic necessities.

Other states have much more stringent rules, like in Florida, where lobbyists are banned from buying lawmakers even a cup of coffee.

A lawmaker vanishes World Cup worries As lethal as ever A comic film about a grim subject ReprintsBut his dismissive attitude to the revolution's sacred cows has won him wide admiration, among both liberal intellectuals and Muslim fundamentalists.

A lawmaker vanishes World Cup worries As lethal as ever A comic film about a grim subject ReprintsChina has blithely ignored accusations that it is indirectly to blame for letting the Darfur carnage continue.

A lawmaker vanishes World Cup worries As lethal as ever A comic film about a grim subject Reprints Related items South Africa: The long journey of a young democracyMar 1st 2007Jackie Selebi, South Africa's police commissioner, has told Parliament that trying to arrest everyone drinking in public or every prostitute flaunting her wares would overwhelm his force.

A lawmaker vanishes World Cup worries As lethal as ever A comic film about a grim subject Reprints Related items Oil in Africa: The black curseApr 19th 2007 Nigeria: Blood and oilMar 15th 2007Much of the blame for the present electoral chaos rests with Mr Obasanjo himself.

His company used its cups in December to encourage lawmakers to "come together" on a fiscal cliff deal.