Sentence examples for legislative defeats from inspiring English sources

Despite that, and despite periodic rebukes from rebellious moderates in his own party, he has suffered no crippling legislative defeats.

Mr. Quinn might climb atop the Hancock Center if he took things quite as personally, given his legislative defeats and evolving caricature as gadfly-turned-bumbling executive.

Environmentalists, frustrated by years of legislative defeats and a recent retreat by the Ford Motor Company on a pledge that it would improve the fuel economy of its S.U.V.'s, were further exasperated by the report.

Addressing one of his biggest legislative defeats last year, Mr. Clinton called for a "bipartisan dialogue" on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, conciliatory language indicating that the president did not intend to push the matter again.

In 1984, after a stint running membership and grass-roots operations for the chamber, Mr. Donohue landed his first big Washington lobbying job, as president and chief executive of the American Trucking Associations, which had been hobbled by a string of legislative defeats.

And like the tea-party movement, they can win by losing: their partisans may treat legislative defeats as a badge of honour, and in any case, when government is stymied, the economy weakens, and people get angry, populist parties that avoid responsibility and stay out of government draw more support.

a humiliating & politically damaging legislative defeat.

It was the worst legislative defeat of the Clinton presidency, and it contributed to the Democrats' loss of control of Congress in the 1994 elections.

Widely viewed as a court-packing scheme (even by Roosevelt's supporters), the reorganization bill provoked heated debate in Congress and eventually was voted down, which handed Roosevelt his first major legislative defeat.

The last-ditch effort by the leadership to avoid an embarrassing legislative defeat was the latest symptom of party unrest arising from instability in the leadership and anxiety about the 2006 elections.

But MoveOn publicly backed Pelosi and urged House liberals of the get-out-now persuasion to hold their tongues and support it, lest Pelosi suffer an embarrassing legislative defeat.