Sentence examples for legislative pieces from inspiring English sources

European politicians decided to separate the two legislative pieces in order to reduce the complexity of overhauling the general directive.

The Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still favours immigration reform, but he has accepted the need for a piece-by-piece legislative approach because "we don't have the votes to pass" a comprehensive measure.

"When you have a long legislative career, any piece of legislation can be used against you".

"The coal industry is on its way out because it is too expensive and too deadly," Melinda Piece, legislative director of the Sierra Group, told HuffPost.

I'm further confused over how my representatives find the time to concentrate on reading every one of the 10,000 new, pending and debated pieces of legislative options seeking a path through Congress to the White House.

During the 2007 legislative session, Rice sponsored 16 pieces of legislation, including 11 as the primary sponsor in the House of Representatives.

This has led the Conservative MP Douglas Carswell to call the bill "a piece of legislative PR".

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

I'm just an undefined, impotent 2,300 page piece of legislative" – well, you can guess the rest.

If Justice Anthony Kennedy was previewing his vote with his comments, then Windsor will likely get her money back — not because DOMA is a piece of legislative bigotry, but because Kennedy has a consuming affection for state's rights.

In a recent opinion piece, ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Guliani argues that the CLOUD Act sidesteps oversight from both the legislative and judicial branches, granting the attorney general and the state department too much discretion in choosing which governments the U.S. will enter into a data exchange agreement with.