Sentence examples for governing debate from inspiring English sources
The petition became necessary when Dennis Hastert, the House speaker, removed Shays-Meehan from consideration after a bitter fight in July over the rules governing debate.
RULES Five different rules may be chosen to govern debate on the House floor.
It is being alleged that Boulton, Sky's political editor, breached the strict rules governing the debate by raising with Clegg the front page of yesterday's DailyTelegraph.
It shifts the onus from Labour – "what would you cut then?" – to the Tories: "How will you stimulate the economy?" It changes the dominant metaphor governing the debate about the economy.
In fact there is a rule governing internet debate known as Godwin's law that states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one".
New value systems begin to dominate, governing public debate and planning.
But in order to reach a unanimous consent agreement on the norms governing floor debate on the nomination, Republicans should push for as much time as is reasonably possible.
While Mr. Risser was acting director, the Smithsonian Regents, its governing body, debated the appropriateness of accepting a $5 million donation for its Ocean Initiative from the American Petroleum Institute, prompting the institute to withdraw the offer.
Another thing Mr. Boehner seeks to do is loosen the rules that govern the debate of bills, and would allow more substantive amendments to be offered by members, which would Mr. Boehner argued would make for higher quality legislation and a more fair process.
Or will that hand of friendship be bitten or the posterior kicked by one side or the other?" Mr. Daschle, who controls the Senate until Jan . 20because Al Gore is still vice president, also won concessions on the rules that govern Senate debate.
We have fundamental change to make, and a very short window to make it in -- Obama's typical (and often quite savvy) little-bit-at-a-time approach doesn't square with the physics and chemistry that govern this debate.
