Sentence examples for held congress from inspiring English sources

Now, he said, "strategists dedicated to draining the substance out of Miranda cannot accomplish by training instructions what Dickerson held Congress could not do by statute".

Instead, Mr. Bush called — again — for his tax cuts to be permanent and threatened to veto bills that contained excessive pork-barrel spending, an idea absent from his agenda when Republicans held Congress.

Foster's eight-percentage-point improvement on John Kerry's 2004 performance in the district mirrors the general shift in the electorate from 2004, when Bush won and the Republicans held Congress, to 2006, when the Democrats took over Congress and ran on average about eight points ahead of the G.O.P.

But India's democracy did what it is supposed to do, and held Congress accountable.

The public has seldom held Congress in high esteem, although, briefly in 2002 the institution's approval rating shot up to 84%.

And Democrats, you know, my kind of Democrats, Franklin Roosevelt Democrats, had held Congress from the 1930s right up to Bill Clinton.

A memorial service will be held Sun.

Memorial Service to be held Sun.

Privately held JetBlue Airways.

His privately held K.

It's privately held United Parcel Service.