Sentence examples for is attempting to pass from inspiring English sources

Connecticut's legislature is attempting to pass its own family and medical leave legislation, which cleared a key committee last week.

Gonzalez continues work with New York assemblywoman Nily Rozic, who is attempting to pass a similar bill in New York State.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling government is attempting to pass a law that would make sitting prime ministers immune from some forms of criminal investigation.

A Virginia House of Delegates committee is attempting to pass legislation that would allow private, faith-based child welfare agencies to reject prospective parents based on their sexual orientation.

Not content with the loosened campaign finance rules made possible by Citizens United, the GOP is attempting to pass a stealth provision that would open the big money floodgates even further.

This year, Congress is attempting to pass 12 spending bills, each of which funds a different part of our government, instead of combining them into a huge, last-minute omnibus spending bill.

The Sudanese government was attempting to pass off criminals arrested several years ago as janjaweed but hadn't informed the prisoners of the ploy.

Even now, in the minuscule box room we're attempting to pass off as my son's nursery, there's a curtain rail propped up against a wall.

Verstappen cut the same corner while Vettel was attempting to pass and took a five-second penalty that cost him his podium spot.

French lawmakers are attempting to pass a new bill that would help protect their country's independent bookstores by banning companies like Amazon from delivering discounted new books with no shipping charge.

A 29-year-old old captain in the Grenadier Guards, Nairac disappeared in May 1977 after being abducted by the IRA from a pub in South Armagh, where he is said to have been attempting to pass himself off as a republican from Belfast.