Sentence examples for legislative causes from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

The book was a non-partisan effort to assess the defective nature of our legislative branch, its causes, and suggestions on how to upgrade and improve a number of our methods of election and governance.

They have promoted that cause through formal legislative caucuses that promote shipbuilding, submarines, and long-range strategic bombers, as well as an informal alliance of members from states where nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles are based, the report states.

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

Official notes to the bill admit the legislative mess was caused by the court of appeal's ruling.