Sentence examples for exception to a bill from inspiring English sources

The six governors, who include those covering La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, the three main cities, took exception to a bill that would allow the central government to scrutinise the governors' accounts and allow the Congress to sack them.

The suggestion that a health plan might offer abortion coverage and it might be used by someone who might have paid a lower premium than someone else because the government might have helped pay their premium is a horrible reason for Congress to carve out an explicit exception to a bill that is otherwise entirely silent on coverage options.

(For example, if the bill proposes that water supply be limited for each home, a person could say that drinking water would be an exception to the bill).

The Communist parties, on which Mr Singh's coalition relies for a parliamentary majority, have taken especial exception to the bill's implications for India's ties with an old friend, Iran.

It is a common trick at French hotels, and this one was no exception, to inflate the bill by adding the cost of breakfast to the price of the room, and then present the bill as a fait accompli.

But the certificate of the judge certainly included them in the bill when, after expressly referring to them, he said, 'This was all the evidence in the case.' To be sure, it is well settled that exhibits found in the record or even annexed to a bill of exceptions when not attached to it by way of identifying them as intended to be part of it, cannot be treated as such.

Members of the House Rules Committee later, and quietly, added in exceptions to the bill for rape and incest victims.

He outlined his efforts to reform these institutions and add regulations, but met resistance from Republicans, with the main exception being a bill with Republican Mike Oxley that died because of opposition from President Bush.

Leave was given to the executor of the defendant to prepare a bill of exceptions and to take a writ of error.

One exception: passage of a bill making it easier for gay couples to have children through surrogacy arrangements.

The decision of the parliamentary party, with only seven honourable exceptions, to back the bill was "shameful".