Sentence examples for legislative commitments from inspiring English sources

State economists blamed a stagnant first quarter, high tax refunds, and open-ended legislative commitments to property tax cuts and college scholarships.

The best option is to just raise the debt ceiling -- which just honors the obligations these honorable men and women mutually agreed to in the legislative commitments each side of the aisle has made over the past few years.

Many community-based social workers, psychologists and speech and language therapists provided services to those aged 0 18 years only, because of legislative commitments in these areas.

Furthermore, countries first need to establish their own legally binding social policy to enshrine these agreed-upon conventions into legislative commitments, and second, countries are only required to self-report on their implementation to the ILO.

Now the justice ministry are saying this was not, after all, a legislative commitment.

Offering no legislative commitment at all rather makes a mockery of that goal.Optimists can see a bright side.

This is only expenditure at the commonwealth level, for the states too have upped their financial and legislative commitment to the cause.

Labor's shadow water minister, Tony Burke, has said he is open to discussions with the government on both disallowance motions, if the government is prepared to make a firm legislative commitment to the extra water for South Australia.

However, he has been persuaded by cabinet ministers to secure a pre-election legislative commitment to attract Liberal Democrat voters and embarrass any future Conservative government that would be faced with repealing the legislation if it wanted to avoid holding the referendum.

Germany's historical prohibition on dual-citizenship and its legislative commitment to the exclusive transmission of German citizenship by bloodline (jus sanguinis) have been interpreted as continued evidence of Germany's fixation on an ethnocentric model of citizenship even in the post-World War II era.

"I think it's important for the country that we are seen to unite at least in dealing with this measure". The Finance Bill will raise income taxes and close tax-dodging loopholes, and it is the final legislative commitment that Ireland must pass as part of its 80.5bn euro EU/IMF bailout package.