Sentence examples for grant sitting from inspiring English sources

Underlining their fears, congressmen last night attempted to push through legislation that would grant sitting lawmakers amnesty.

This year, the virus has spread to retention elections, in which states ask for a yes-or-no vote on whether to grant sitting justices another term.

At an African Union summit last week in Equatorial Guinea – often spotlighted for its own rights abuses – heads of state and officials voted to grant sitting leaders and senior officials immunity from prosecution.

Kim said there are different interpretations of a constitutional provision that grants sitting presidents immunity from criminal lawsuits, unless they are accused of serious crimes such as treason.

Granted, sitting and meditating, which Burkett urges readers to adopt as a practice, helped me to quiet my own flighty mind, especially when I chose to have brain surgery in 1996.

THERE is a photograph, from 1962, of Doris Day and Cary Grant sitting in the New York Yankees' dugout.

But we take it for granted while sitting in a restaurant with a spouse, sending texts or checking Facebook or Googling the movie we're going to see.

He said: "To have been granted a sitting with the Queen is an ambition fulfilled and it has been an enormous privilege to be asked to create this work.

He also attacked what he perceived as Democratic financial extravagance and the high number of pardons granted by sitting Democratic governor Preston Leslie.

But if we take for granted a sitting President who has used his bully pulpit to emphasize the need to change the way we think about access to government information, our cause is likely to be forgotten among the many other presidential priorities.

Internal ANC research suggests that the party's support might fall below 60%, making it lose the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to change the constitution to, say, grant immunity to sitting presidents.At an ANC jamboree in the Eastern Cape on January 10th, a beaming Mr Zuma launched the party's election manifesto, including a promise to tackle corruption within the party.