Sentence examples for knowledge of the legislative from inspiring English sources

"Mister Sterling" reflects Mr. O'Donnell's intimate, amused knowledge of the legislative branch.

As a former member of both the House and the Senate, his knowledge of the legislative process is unmatched.

"Democratic leadership is considering this as a way to get the White House off their backs," said one Hill staffer with knowledge of the legislative proposal.

Furthermore studies by Byrd et al. [ 49], Primomo [ 38], Primomo and Bjorling [ 39] indicate that exposing students to learning related to policy and knowledge of the legislative and policy processes enhances their political involvement.

To determine whether knowledge of the legislative process would empower participants to partake in future opportunities, we prompted participants with, "I can identify the opportunities available for physicians-in-training to function as health advocates".

When I asked him what he thought of the tax-cut compromise President Obama struck with Congressional Republicans, he said that without inside knowledge of all the legislative wrangling involved, he wouldn't dare criticize it.

According to people with knowledge of the deliberations, some of the legislative appointees, from both political parties, had concerns about having a commission dominated by a governor's appointees look into the internal workings of the Legislature.

Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks and balances among the legislative, executive and judicial branches, according to test results released on Wednesday.

"This is not the first time and it will be not the last one that the Iraqi government carried out such an operation without the knowledge of the Council of Representatives, which is a legislative and monitoring entity on the government's activities," said Waleed Sherka, a Turkmen member of Parliament who is also on the security and defense committee.

The wily Mr. Silver is using his well-practiced knowledge of legislative tactics to try and outflank the mayor.

The speaker's knowledge of legislative maneuvering is nothing new.