Sentence examples for days of floor from inspiring English sources

After three days of floor debate, the House voted 223 to 202 to approve the measure.

A bill that should have zipped through in a few days took four weeks, including seven days of floor debate.

At issue in several days of floor debate and outside Capitol Hill today, was whether it is the banks or their customers who are responsible for the growth in bankruptcy filings.

That is a conclusion the White House vigorously rejects, and the argument over the New Start treaty often degenerates into a blizzard of figures and comparisons with past treaty debates in terms of how many months of study were taken, how many hearings were held, how many questions were answered, how many days of floor debate were permitted and how much access to negotiating records was granted.

"Gone are the days of floor-to-ceiling magnolia being a shrewd sales move," he says, "colour and pattern give rooms personality and trends shouldn't go out the window when you come to sell your house.

But when she and some of her classmates sat down on the carpeted floor, the days of story time and snacks crossed her mind.

But flush with enthusiasm on the fourth long day of freewheeling floor debate, House Republicans on Friday successfully pushed through amendments that would deny financing for Planned Parenthood and block money for the Democrats' big health care overhaul and that would prohibit new regulation of certain greenhouse gases.

After a tense day of Congressional floor fights and angry exchanges, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, called off a planned showdown vote set for after midnight, but said he would convene the Senate at noon on Sunday for a vote an hour later.

The days of that second floor are numbered, said Renzo Rosso of Diesel, speaking from the label's headquarters in Molvena, Italy.

When old-time Democrats in Washington reminisce about the days of brokered conventions — floor fights and frantic early-morning calls, deals cut under the haze of cigar smoke — they talk about them the way a paleontologist might describe the hurtling stride of a velociraptor: an awesome spectacle, to be sure, but not one you would really want to see up close.

We'd gone into the weekend ready for four days of couches and/or floors but within 10 minutes of getting to the first party we meet friend of friend of friend, Bunny.