Sentence examples for lawmakers building from inspiring English sources

By electing one house of parliament and appointing another, the Bahraini king is taking the first tentative steps to both share decision-making and nurture a political culture in which the country will not be able to move forward without the new lawmakers' building coalitions across ethnic lines.

He said he had been meeting with Obama administration officials and lawmakers and building support for the measure, including among Republicans.

Lawmakers are building to the much-awaited appearance next week of JPMorgan's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, who is expected to shed new light on the bank's trading blunder.

But the clash between the Obama administration and lawmakers had been building for months.

(The New York Post, Oct. 19, 2005) Discussing what he considered irresponsible spending by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers: "They're building up this unconscionable deficit".

Taken together, these provisions address many fears about freer trade.Despite all these compromises, American lawmakers are far from building a new consensus for free trade.

Frustration is building as lawmakers see a major disconnect between the everyday anxieties of people back home and the Washington agenda.

The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it was her job to handle the formalities of delaying Senate business until her colleagues could get back to work.

"We have lifted 36 million people from extreme poverty," she told lawmakers in the Congress building.

But Mr. Armbrister said lawmakers were increasingly unconvinced that building more prisons and increasing salaries even more were the answers to the system's problems.

Dissent has been building among Conservative lawmakers since Mr. Cameron failed to include the referendum promise in a list of draft laws outlined in a legislative program delivered last week by Queen Elizabeth II.