Sentence examples for legislative machinery from inspiring English sources

In a previous era, the concessions and extra pork that Nelson so often secured for Nebraska were routine, the necessary grease in the gears of the legislative machinery that helped produce compromises on major legislation.

Without it, the legislative machinery would grind to a halt.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's new health plan is still a complicated piece of legislative machinery.

And even if such forecasting were possible, the legislative machinery would be too cumbersome to respond appropriately.

The perception that Europe's legislative machinery is remote and unaccountable is widespread even in countries that like the EU.

The constitution was supposed to renovate the EU's creaking legislative machinery as well as bringing Brussels closer to the people.

The three large countries, Brazil, India and Mexico, have federal structures with separate legislative machineries at national and subnational levels.

The relatively new secretary of state hampered though he was by Lord Minto, the British viceroy of India (1905 10)—was able to introduce several important innovations into the legislative and administrative machinery of the British Indian government.

Hampered though he was by the viceroy, Lord Minto, the new secretary of state for India, John Morley, was able to introduce several important innovations into the legislative and administrative machinery of the British Indian government.

Second, although Gross thought there had been substantial erosion in constitutional democracy, he believed the legislative and judicial machinery of representative government plus civil society and unions still provided a bulwark against fascist tendencies.

And its villainy is turbocharged by its ruthless exploitation of the flaws in our legislative and electoral machinery, especially the Senate filibuster and the malapportionment that lets them keep their House majority (and their filibuster-capable Senate minority) despite the fact that the majority of Americans voted for Democrats.