Sentence examples for embracing representative from inspiring English sources

After enthusiastically embracing Representative Paul Ryan's proposal to eventually turn Medicare into a voucher program — with the government providing a subsidy to buy private health insurance — they backed away when voters made clear that they hated the idea.

Gone was the ultraconservative who appealed to the Tea Party during the primaries; gone was the cold executive disdainful of the 47 percent who pay no taxes; gone was the candidate embracing Representative Paul D. Ryan and his draconian views.

Still, on Iraqi television, before the troops, and in a meeting in Mosul with the elected leaders of a local government, Mr. Rumsfeld called attention to the speed with which Iraq has moved under American leadership toward embracing representative government and private enterprise, which he called "a model to the entire region".

All the main parties agree in principle that Iraq would benefit from a unity government embracing representatives of all major ethnic and sectarian groups.The bitterest arguments will be over the ministries of defence and interior.

Republican leaders, who denounced those cuts in 2010, have since embraced Representative Paul Ryan's proposal, which adopts virtually all of the same reductions.

President Bush came to the state of his birth today to raise money, promote volunteerism and embrace Representative Christopher Shays, the Connecticut Republican who has for years infuriated the leadership of his party with his support for campaign finance reform.

Unlike the citizens' initiative process where voters directly enact legislation, voter instructions embrace representative democracy by giving simple directives to elected officials and leaving to them the details of implementing the policy.

So the proconsul has had to rely on the 25-strong American-appointed Governing Council, which embraces representatives from across Iraq's sectarian spectrum and has believed for months that it could persuade Mr Sistani to accept an indirect form of election to the transitional government.

But the business of creating a national coalition government, embracing a representative swathe of Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs and Kurds, will be as tricky as before, when a government took nearly three months to emerge.

Negotiations over an agreement to ban soft money in the New York Senate race collapsed yesterday after Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a plan that was initially embraced by Representative Rick A. Lazio -- until he learned that it contained more restrictions on him than on her.

Bishop Brent decided that continued opium use must be the fault of the booming trade in China, and wrote again to President Roosevelt, urging that the United States had a duty to "promote some movement that would gather in its embrace representatives from all countries where the traffic and use of opium is a matter of moment".