Sentence examples for instead of legislative from inspiring English sources

Congressional Republicans said they were incredulous that Mr. Obama planned to use another set of speeches instead of legislative negotiations to advance his economic agenda.

Instead of legislative solutions, they offer thoughts and prayers. .

Ryan and other politicians have been criticized for offering thoughts and prayers instead of legislative action to reduce gun violence.

But it makes more sense for high school administrators, teachers and parents to address this problem instead of legislative leaders or district attorneys.

The message is that these companies are running out of places to hide from the judges and the regulators -- and that instead of seeking legislative relief from Congress, they would be better off accepting the inevitable and installing the pollution controls they should have built years ago.

Furthermore, this would be accomplished by a single judge's decision, instead of through legislative means or public discourse, or market forces.

It is bad enough that our two parties cannot seem to agree on whether the sun is out but it is made exponentially worse when political maneuvers like the filibuster are used for destruction of the other party's agenda instead of as legislative tools.

The push to see an independent commission, instead of legislatures, draw legislative maps also has seen a resurgence.

With strong leadership and decisive action by the Assembly before Dec. 31, they can turn into law, instead of yet another tale of legislative dysfunction, voter frustration and missed opportunity.

One-third of the Parliament seats — the number the court said were legally questionable — should be re-contested instead of dissolving the entire legislative body.

He said the possibility of primary elections as early as June made it prudent to mount a legal challenge now, instead of waiting until the legislative task force released a draft of district lines.