Sentence examples for federal machine from inspiring English sources

A Liberal member behind a push to reform the New South Wales Liberal party has urged the federal machine to intervene in the state branch following the appearance of the assistant treasurer, Arthur Sinodinos, at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac).

WASHINGTON -- The Senate took the first formal step toward averting a government shutdown Monday, advancing a bill that will keep the federal machine up and running through mid-December -- as long as the House of Representatives goes along with it.

This view might have sounded good politically to the Ashcroft Justice Department [pdf], but now the Bush Administration realizes that the lower-court decision could "cast doubt on the constitutionality of" common-sense gun control laws like the "federal machine gun ban," the restrictions on firearm possession by felons, and the licensing of gun dealers.

"But that won't negate the need for reform," the editorial says, concluding: Weapons designed expressly to kill human beings, and then modified (wink wink) to meet the federal machine-gun ban, have no legitimate place in American society.

We also think we can make major strides in updating the way the federal regulatory machine works, given that the underlying legislation is outdated and insufficiently flexible..

The Reagan administration's hastily prepared fiscal blueprint, however, was no match for the primordial forces — the welfare state and the warfare state — that drive the federal spending machine.

Yet trying to run the huge federal-government machine, while curbing his party's and his supporters' huge expectations, would be a far bigger challenge.

He has worked as a state and federal party-machine man, trade-union employee and ministerial adviser.

Under this political election context, trifecta implies that Feeney is lucky to have these three backgrounds: state and federal party-machine man, trade-union employee and ministerial adviser.

[14] He (Feeney) has worked as a state and federal party-machine man [t.-judgement:capacity], trade-union employee and ministerial adviser.  .

He (Feeney) has worked as a state and federal party-machine man [t.-judgement:capacity], trade-union employee and ministerial adviser.