Sentence examples for legislative consensus from inspiring English sources

But such unbridled spending to buy a political seat overturns a social and legislative consensus about how New Yorkers prefer to elect their public officials.

A wide array of scholarship supports the view that women tend to cross party lines to build legislative consensus more frequently than men.

Score: 1 Guardian verdict: Recent executive action on background checks cannot disguise the fact that efforts to create lasting legislative consensus in the wake of shooting tragedies have all failed.

But whether a legislative consensus could be found remained an open question, and members of Mr. Bush's own party were among those who were most critical of the increasing federal intervention in private markets.

Many gun experts and lawmakers believe the two areas ripe for legislative consensus are a bill that would make background checks for gun buyers nearly universal, and a measure that would create a federal statute against straw purchasing, which would give prosecutors better tools to go after people who buy guns that they sell or give to others to commit crimes.

There is a growing judicial and legislative consensus that American courts can go after foreign thugs who come to the United States.The result has been a series of high-profile cases against human-rights abusers who have been rash enough to set foot in America.

The events of this week present a remarkable opportunity for the President Obama to appoint someone who has clinical, executive, legislative, political and consensus building experience and talent to transform health care in this country in a bipartisan, sustainable way.

Negotiations between the EU and America on an ambitious trade pact might expire if the commission becomes a lame duck.Brussels is traditionally a place of slow legislative work and consensus-building.

That's because with zero political consensus for legislative action the only impact of Obama's provocations is to fuel the conservative anti-gun control crusade.

In South Korea, the withdrawal of LST for patients who have a terminal illness remains under debate, and the social consensus and legislative processes are developing; the withdrawal of LST for postcardiac arrest patients based on prognostication is not currently permitted.

When I arrived at the governor's compound that day in north-central Kandahar, bearded men conducted a shura — a consensus-based, legislative meeting of local elders.