Sentence examples for encouraging legislation from inspiring English sources

While some are against the legislation because they say it would limit competition, Philip Morris has for years been encouraging legislation to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco, including marketing.

While Mr. Murdoch asked the government not to impose more regulations on the news industry, he did say he would encourage legislation on some of the very "disruptive technologies" putting newspapers out of business.

But he said he would encourage legislation giving more workers the ability to use compensatory time or flexible schedules so they could have "time to go to the Little League games, time to care for elderly parents or time to go to class themselves".

Valenti will concede that he has used star power to encourage legislation desired by his bosses in Hollywood.

With those words, Boehner signaled a 180 degree change from his stance just last week, when he came out with the GOP principles on immigration reform to encourage legislation.

Join with others to write your representatives and to write your senators to encourage legislation for better small business opportunity, small business loans, infrastructure careers and jobs, to ease the unemployment as much as possible -- especially to open up lending for existing and new entrepreneurs, small businesses.

6. Encourage legislation that will provide tax credits to eating establishments that serve locally grown products.

4. Encourage the State Department of Agriculture to offer full services on this island; e.g., inspections in Kona and Hilo for pests, etc. 5. Encourage legislation that will require locally grown products to be served in school cafeterias.

Occasionally, trustees joined with anti-Roman Catholic groups (i.e., the Know-Nothing Party) to encourage civil legislation favouring their cause.

Encouraged by legislation and the rising cost of energy, as well as concerns about greenhouse gases, consumers are swapping out incandescent bulbs.

Now it is up to the Obama administration to issue regulations that do not delay infrastructure projects and don't encourage mirror legislation in other countries".