Sentence examples for legislative cause from inspiring English sources

Alaska has no death penalty, and during the campaign she said that she would support one, but never made an issue of it; she opposed abortion even for pregnancies caused by rape, but this was a personal opinion, not a legislative cause.

But he pressed on, becoming involved with legislative causes like expanding taxi access in the boroughs outside Manhattan and helping immigrants overcome language barriers.

For even more than most Senate leaders, whose biggest challenge is to keep fractious coalitions together, Mr. Lott has not held any particular legislative causes close to his heart, though he fought strenuously and effectively to bring federal money to Mississippi.

Recent rumblings suggest that mining law reform may be moving from the list of legislative lost causes to reality.

The dizzying speed of the legislative avalanche caused consternation in Brussels, Washington and at various international bodies.

Conflicts and misunderstandings over conservation and legislative procedure caused the rift between Taft Republicans and the insurgents to grow.

The highly publicized and prolonged series of legal challenges presented by her parents and by state and federal legislative intervention caused a seven-year delay before her feeding tube was ultimately removed.

This legislative action will cause the United States to miss a revolution in biology.

But now one, Pernod Ricard, a French drinks group, is finding that the formerly communist countries' legislative flaws can cause problems both ways.

Texas lawmakers got out of the Kumbaya session alive, ducking most of the opportunities for bitter fights by ducking most of the issues that cause legislative fights to turn bitter.

California will face structural deficits of about $20 billion a year for quite a while, according to Mac Taylor, the state's non-partisan legislative analyst.The immediate cause for this cataclysm was the recession.