Sentence examples for fought the limits from inspiring English sources

Representative Frank D. Lucas, Republican of Oklahoma, and Collin C. Peterson, Democrat of Minnesota, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Agriculture Committee, fought the limits, saying agriculture policy should be left up to it.

We both work to challenge discriminatory policies and fight the limiting expectations of our culture.

Last week, he and 16 other lawyers and academics met at a law firm in downtown Manhattan to brainstorm, debate and define the best legal strategy to fight the term limits change.

When these hard-liners ended up working in parallel with business interests who fought the treaty to avoid limits on industrial emissions, the result was deadlock.

They have successfully fought the administration's efforts to limit executive pay and are battling against draft legislation governing the $592 trillion market for derivatives.

"We have to learn to fight within the limits of the law".

Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the mayor, said Mr. Bloomberg had fought to limit the increase through the cap approved by the Legislature.

Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, stressed in a statement that "the president has fought to limit the outsized influence that lobbyists have over the policy making process, passing laws that promote reform and disclosure and establishing rules ensuring that industry lobbyists can't come into the government to oversee the industry for which they used to work".

Many AIG employees have fought back against the limits proposed by Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's so-called 'pay czar.' In a recent cover story, New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman pointed to a growing sense among many AIG employees that they're being scapegoated for the behavior of just a few traders in the insurer's financial products unit.

To Republicans who have fought to limit the agency created in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the algorithm encapsulates how the CFPB has overstepped its bounds, using a novel statistical method to indirectly regulate a class of businesses — car dealers — outside its jurisdiction.

Trial lawyers, among the Democratic Party's biggest contributors, have led the fight against the limits on damages.