Sentence examples for lawmakers act from inspiring English sources

This argument is faulty because legal interpretation generally assumes that lawmakers act with clear purpose.

The fast ends Friday, but Caudillo said the fight continues until lawmakers act.

A federal judge is now expected to rule soon on a new primary date, unless lawmakers act first.

UNLESS lawmakers act by March 1, the budget sequestration process will start cutting government spending automatically — reductions that would amount to $1.2 trillion by 2021.

Under a system put in place in 1989, lawmakers receive a cost-of-living raise unless lawmakers act to stop it.

They were joined by several hundred protesters who demanded that lawmakers act to end gun violence during an emotional demonstration on Presidents' Day.

Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary, told Congress that unless lawmakers acted in time, he would run out of money to pay the nation's bills by Oct. 17.

So it's disappointing that New York lawmakers acted to forgo considerable economic and clean energy advantages by passing a natural gas drilling ban.

But state lawmakers acted "in response to a problem that was, in its experience, limited to abortion clinics," the chief justice wrote.

Lawmakers acted after a widely circulated video showed three employees apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings.

In a 3-to-2 decision, an Appellate Division panel ruled that state lawmakers acted unconstitutionally in adopting a budget for the 2001-02 fiscal year because they improperly changed provisions that Gov. George E. Pataki had included in his appropriations bills.