Sentence examples for legislative argument from inspiring English sources

Yet the question of lapdancing clubs goes beyond the legislative argument and into the far murkier debate that surrounds this new social phenomenon.

In the book, she said she considered discussing it but felt it would overshadow her legislative argument.

The Supreme Court argument over the constitutionality of the Obama health care law has been more like a legislative argument between liberal and conservatives than a constitutional one.

(The Guardian, October 5, 2010) The same article suggested that the apparent dominance of anti-choice positions in the British media have arisen because 'when the pro-choice movement won the legislative argument, it ceded the moral high ground as a consolation prize to the anti-abortionists' (The Guardian October 5, 2010).

The legal and legislative arguments on which he relied had always been at his disposal, and Mr. Salazar apparently did not find the scientific conclusions robust enough to be the main argument for his decision to close the farm.

Our analysis of the participation and arguments employed in legislative debate on workplace smoking legislation suggests that the greater the proportion of arguments focused on science and health effects, the more common it was to see favorable public health outcomes, independent of the affiliations of outside participants who testified on proposed legislation.

First, we cannot establish a cause and effect relationship between the frequency and content of arguments in legislative debate and the policy outcome.

Mr. Pataki also challenged legislative leaders' argument that restoring the school aid and Medicaid would keep local property taxes down.

By this argument, states that passed stronger workplace smoking legislation should also have had more outside participation in legislative debate.

That helped lead to wins on marriage equality in three states at the ballot last fall, and, after the widely watched Supreme Court arguments, legislative wins in several more states.

Senior judicial appointments must be ratified by Congress, but the president has enjoyed a comfortable legislative majority.A second argument wielded by opponents of a third term is that national priorities have changed.