Sentence examples for lawmakers set out from inspiring English sources

The White House remained largely on the sidelines over the weekend as lawmakers set out with their own plans.

WHEN a small band of apostate lawmakers set out seven years ago to stop the political parties from soliciting six-figure checks, their goal was simple: to cut the ties between lawmakers and special interest groups.

In a broad sense, the ACA accomplished what lawmakers set out to do: Dramatically reduce the U.S. uninsured rate and make comprehensive coverage available to people no matter what their health condition.

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb. 18 - A new Palestinian parliament dominated by the militant group Hamas was installed here Saturday, and immediately President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas lawmakers set out on a collision course over the need to honor existing agreements with Israel and conduct negotiations with it to achieve Palestinian statehood.

In that measure, lawmakers set out to ensure that workers would receive the pensions and benefits they had been promised by employers.

At a rally in Searchlight, Nev., a week later, Mr. Breitbart argued that black Democratic lawmakers had set out to provoke the protesters.

The Free Exercise Protection Act, which was passed by state lawmakers March 16, set out to protect faith-based organizations that chose to decline services that they argue violate their beliefs.

As HMRC's chief executive and permanent secretary Lin Homer said, "We are duty bound to collect and investigate under regulations, set out by lawmakers, not on what 'you'd like' us to collect on".

As the head of Revenue and Customs said in the House of Commons last week: "We are duty-bound to collect and investigate under regulations set out by lawmakers, not on what you'd [ie politicians] like us to collect".

That's the question that a bipartisan group of state lawmakers from around the country set out to answer two years ago, when they embarked on a study of the world's highest-performing school systems.

When legislatures convened this year, lawmakers in more than 30 states set out to send Washington a blunt message: back off.