Sentence examples for death senate from inspiring English sources

Shortly after news broke Saturday about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Senate Republicans came out and promised to block any replacement chosen by Obama.

Shortly after word of Scalia's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who decides what the Senate takes up, said in a statement that President Barack Obama should not nominate a replacement.

Immediately after Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asserted, "It is a President's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a President and withhold its consent".

The last Senate election was widely criticised.

Votes of the incumbent party in the last senate election.

In that regard, it is interesting to note that in 42 B.C.E., shortly after Julius Caesar's death, the senate declared him a Roman god.

They accordingly surrendered themselves and all their possessions to Caesar, on whom Caesar thought that punishment should be inflicted the more severely, in order that for the future the rights of embassadors might be more carefully respected by barbarians; having, therefore, put to death all their senate, he sold the rest for slaves.

VICE's investigation is supported by a cache of dozens of documents, including sworn affidavits, court documents, police reports, death certificates and senate committee documents.

The real Caesar – a moment of incongruity here — was stabbed to death in the Roman senate, an act which led directly to the execution of Cicero – which was the codename of Nazi Germany's top spy in Istanbul, the top Middle East espionage centre in World War Two.

62 1 After the death of Romulus the senate, being now in full control of the government and having held the supreme power for one year, as I have related,85 began to be at odds with itself and to split into factions over questions of pre-eminence and equality.

The scandal was so salacious, however, that Washington State made bestiality a Class C felony punishable by up to five years behind bars and a $10,000 fine shortly after Pinyan's death, with the state senate voting unanimously for the bill.