Sentence examples for introduced on behalf of from inspiring English sources

1937 Money for War on Cancer WASHINGTON — Senator Homer T. Bone, of Washington, has introduced on behalf of virtually the entire Senate membership a bill to authorize expenditure of $1,000,000 annually for cancer research.

Teachers may also assign students to track coverage of the issue in The New York Times, following any real bill introduced on behalf of President Obama through both houses of Congress and voting on which of their classmates came closest to predicting the eventual outcome.

Both the legislation introduced on behalf of the administration and the competing bill sponsored by a group of largely Republican opponents in the Senate include a provision that would bar foreigners held abroad from using the federal trial courts for challenges to detention known as habeas corpus lawsuits.

Kirchner [26, 27, 28, 29] introduced on behalf of Deutsche Bahn AG1 the Rail Liberalisation Index (LIB Index) widely acknowledged as the reference method to perform such comparison.

The petition was introduced on behalf of James Loewen, the sociologist and historian who wrote the book Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Legislation for a commemorative coin to mark the 150th anniversary of American independence was introduced on behalf of the United States National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission, which was charged with organizing what became known as the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Rossellini will introduce Stromboli on behalf of her brother (conceived at the time of the making of the film), who cannot make the screening.

Charles Ferris, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who founded Mintz, Levin's Washington office, said that "never once did we ever approach John Kerry to introduce legislation on behalf of a client".

The General Assembly's legal committee, which comprises all the members, voted 80 to 79 in favor of a deferral motion introduced by Iran on behalf of Islamic countries.

The League is pleased that Congress has taken action and introduced strong legislation on behalf of all voters' rights.

Ross introduced a petition on behalf of 500 citizens of McLennan County, requesting a prohibition amendment to be placed on the next statewide ballot; the legislature did agree to place this on the next ballot.