Sentence examples for legislation prior from inspiring English sources

My office reviewed the legislation prior to passage and I can assure you that your characterisation of it is wrong.

Republican leaders said the Senate and the House would vote on the legislation prior to their Fourth of July recess, and the two groups hope to hammer out differences by the end of the summer.

In return for supporting the minority Labour government of James Callaghan, Steel was able to extract a number of concessions, including an agreement to consult the Liberals on legislation prior to its presentation in Parliament.

The author referred to the challenges faced by the legislation prior to implementation including that from the Supreme Court as well as the U.S. Congress with the slim majority Senate approval.

The U.S. Senate will not take up comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation prior to the August recess.

Senators and legislative staffers have worked to address fears about the bill and have offered to address concerns through program instruction, definitions and in subsequent legislation prior to its implementation.

The 1906 legislation amended prior Meat Inspection Acts of 1890 and 1891 and other laws that had provided for USDA inspection of slaughtered animals and meat products but had proven ineffective in regulating many unsafe and unsanitary practices by the meatpacking industry.

In the meanwhile the extent of law breaches by U.K. domestic intelligence agencies operating under a problematic patchwork of legislation and, prior to Snowden's whistleblowing, without parliamentary scrutiny in a climate of near perfect secrecy, is still being determined.

It's an interesting solution, because it's clear even to those not intimately involved with patent and IP legislation that prior art and documented evidence of invention are to be found all over the world, but since there's not one aggregated, easily searchable global source, crowdsourcing and a global community of experts can be an effective way to solve the problem.

Brown has introduced similar legislation in prior sessions of Congress.

Pay equity laws have been in place in the United States since 1963 with many states having their own legislation decades prior.