Sentence examples for legislative limbo from inspiring English sources

But it has been languishing, stuck in some legislative limbo.

But the land that actually needed protection — one and a half million acres of caribou calving grounds along the Beaufort Sea — was left in legislative limbo.

The plans for a Newark arena for the New Jersey Nets and Devils sports teams sit in a legislative limbo of sorts.

Now the bill will not move until fall, a setback that could ripple through the Senate calendar, putting other plans to create jobs in energy and infrastructure in legislative limbo.

Some of the people it has named have been stuck in legislative limbo, while others have given up, including the Nobel laureate Peter A. Diamond, who withdrew his nomination for a seat on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

Last week, with the status of a million rent-controlled and rent-stabilized New York City apartments stuck in legislative limbo, Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to crack down on any landlords caught taking advantage of addled tenants.

Helping students in testing limbo became a legislative priority after an article was published this month in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nutraceuticals exist in a legal limbo and the existing legislative efforts remain confusing, complex and not harmonized throughout the many regions of the Globe.

Dean Pagani, a spokesman for Gov. John G. Rowland, said the agreement reached Thursday between the governor and legislative leaders on a $12.3 billion state budget was in limbo because of the dispute.

But with the cost of compliance with the ruling estimated at $1 billion, it seemed likely that legislative debate and court challenges would drag on, perhaps for years, leaving local school district budgets in limbo.

With the legislative session having ended, a bill to legalize the sport in New York has, once again, been relegated to limbo status.