Sentence examples for legislative life from inspiring English sources

The ultimate decision is Albany's, and there is no sign of legislative life on this score.

It is a given of legislative life that few bills ever go all the way through the president's signature.

That one hotel could become an adjunct to legislative life is in some ways a Western concept.

"It's always frustrating, "said Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, "that's part of the legislative life up here — always has been.

He lost to President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primaries, then returned to the Senate, immersed himself in legislative life and liberal interests.

But Mrs. Whitman came to Trenton in 1993 as an outsider, while Mr. DiFrancesco has worked here his entire legislative life.

Mr. Harris, with the help of Republican colleagues who were empathetically miffed, was gumming up the works, using every trick in the book to turn the Senate into a legislative still life.

Writing after the assassination, Neustadt notes that in his short time in office Kennedy had put in motion many of the signature bills later passed by Johnson, and ponders the unknowable question: had he lived, would Kennedy have succeeded in making his plans law?Though he came from the Senate, Kennedy was not enamoured of the legislative way of life, "and legislators knew it", Neustadt argues.

But its influence is considerable and expanding: it has been involved in every legislative case involving life before the supreme court since Roe v. Wade.

Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum both went after Romney for refusing to sign a pro-life pledge -- Santorum managed to catch Huntsman up in his critique as well, despite Huntsman's generally standard-issue pro-life legislative record.

Though he was lauded in the mid-1990s for his criminal justice legislation, Mr. Whitmire's life outside the legislative arena made breathless headlines.