Sentence examples for initial legislative from inspiring English sources

While Cuba was the primary focus of the initial legislative push, Iran, with its relative wealth and large population, was also a promising prospect.

The initial legislative response in Russia focused on sanctions similar to those in the Magnitsky law on American judges and others accused of violating the rights of adopted Russian children in the United States.

When Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican and majority leader, issued a memo this week laying out the body's initial legislative agenda, a centerpiece was a modest tax cut for small businesses.

Despite some concerns that the bill would be difficult to enforce and could hurt roadside vendors, it recently cleared an initial legislative committee and lawmakers were to debate its merits in the next few days.

While few private members' bills make it on to the statute book, this legislation, put forward by Rob Marris, the Labour MP for Wolverhampton South West, is almost identical to a bill advanced by former lord chancellor Lord Falconer, which passed its initial legislative stages in the upper house last year before running out of parliamentary time.

Initial legislative triumphs included the Underwood Act, which reduced a tariff and provided for a graduated Federal income tax; the Federal Reserve Act, which gave much needed flexibility to the money supply; the Clayton Anti-trust Act, which outlawed various unfair business practices and limited the use of injunctions against trades unions; and the establishment of a Federal Trade Commission.

The "unitedstates" organization also hosts other federal government data collection efforts, but our initial efforts focused on legislative data produced by the Library of Congress.

Mr. Silver on Monday spoke to reporters for the first time since the release last week of two reports criticizing him for approving confidential settlements with women who accused Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of sexual harassment, and for failing to refer the initial allegations to a legislative ethics committee.

That will block new legislative initiatives.

According to the legislative report, the initial plans for the new juvenile center called for a conventional energy plant.

The initial bipartisan support for emergency legislative action turned to hostility once the $700-billion number was attached to the bill.