Sentence examples for legislative passage from inspiring English sources

But I am far more scared than hopeful, because nothing about the NDAA's legislative passage worked as democracy is supposed to work.

The opposition had blocked legislative passage of the measure, but now offers its votes if some of its own reform proposals are included.

Legislative passage was thwarted in large part because prosecutors made the case that it was necessary to hold the threat of jail over the heads of these children as a way of coercing them to testify against pimps.

But Flynn expects a surge in attendance like the one New York experienced two years ago, when the march was held days after governor Cuomo won legislative passage of a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in his state.

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a Democrat, said that she would sign a near-total ban on abortion -- without exceptions for rape or incest victims -- that is nearing final legislative passage.

Legislative passage of the Democratic-sponsored Dream Act is nearly impossible this year, filibuster rule or not.

Who knows what will work better?" Another area of tension threatens to overshadow what was supposed to be a signature legislative accomplishment: passage of a sweeping overhaul of the Depression-era financial architecture.

And on Thursday, hours after his most significant legislative win — passage of an on-time budget — Mr. Cuomo's victory lap came in the form of a video message on his official Web site.

The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders can point to a long string of legislative accomplishments — passage of a health insurance overhaul, financial reform, a stimulus package that may have been misshapen and too small but nevertheless helped stave off a worse economic disaster, and so on.

While the report on Friday that the economy grew at a brisk 5.7 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter was a mark of how much the situation has improved in a year, voters could be forgiven for not being more impressed with his biggest legislative accomplishment, passage of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, given that the unemployment rate remains in double digits.

The first big legislative lift, passage of a bill to expedite the Keystone XL pipeline, fizzled after Obama's veto.