Sentence examples for legislative mark from inspiring English sources

If Obama aims to leave a legislative mark in his second term, he'll need two things: a sense of humility, and a revitalized faction of Republican lawmakers willing to make deals with the President.

He and his campaign aides talked privately of being the Reagan of the left: a transformative figure who would leave an indelible legislative mark at home and restore America's position on the world stage.

Mr. Leach, 59, the son of a Davenport business family, went to Congress in 1976, served for six years as chairman of the Banking Committee and made his legislative mark on issues like overhauling regulation of the financial services industry.

For example, Michael McAuliff reported that the House Ways and Means Committee, during a legislative mark-up earlier this year, objected to passing legislation that "would spend $1 million a year to help keep foster kids out of the sex trade" because the bill was not fully offset but then "voted in favor of $310 billion in tax breaks for businesses" without budget offsets.

This month's legislative session marks the beginning of the second, and final, term in office for Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen.

The ruling, which will be recorded in the official state legislative journal, marks the first time any French judicial body has acknowledged in such stark terms the government's role in Nazi-era atrocities.

Death and the internet have always had a loveless and legislative relationship, marked by court cases in which families have and haven't managed to gain access to deceased loved ones' online accounts.

As President Obama welcomed activists from across the country to the White House to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), similar scenes played out in state capitols across the country with governors and state legislative leaders marking this important anniversary.

The 2013 legislative session will mark the 10th anniversary of a decision by Texas lawmakers to deregulate college tuition, giving the authority to set tuition at public universities to the institutions.

In retrospect, "Roots" — which arrived on television a dozen years after the legislative high-water mark of the civil rights movement, in the more immediate wake of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy and the first "Rocky" movie — may have succeeded so widely with white and black audiences because it simultaneously opened and closed the book on America's racial history.

The home stretch of the 2015 legislative session was marked by fitful, often contentious negotiations over legislation intended to fight climate change, as well as on proposals to raise taxes to repair California roadways and fix funding for Medi-Cal, the state's ailing healthcare program for the poor.