Sentence examples for legislative pillar from inspiring English sources
The president used the appearance to urge those lawmakers to revive the Voting Rights Act – a legislative pillar that sprung from the civil rights movement, and Selma in particular, which in 2013 was weakened by a supreme court decision.
One major exception is a measure introduced by House Democrat Rush Holt, that would repeal both the Patriot Act and the Fisa Amendments Act of 2008, two legislative pillars of post-9/11 surveillance.
The frameworks' five pillars are (a) existing legislative measures, (b) executive and budgetary support, (c) administrative and coordinating capacity, (d) participation of people with disabilities in the policymaking process, and, (e) attitudes of the society towards voters with disabilities.
The institutional and legislative foundations carefully laid by Wilson are the pillars of the liberal democracy we enjoy to this day.
All ours pillars of democracy are sullied indecently, be it legislative, executive, judiciary or press.
This applies as much to how the legislative output of that political class has altered the role of key institutions – pillars of order that can make or blur the difference between a civilised society and a Hobbesian free-for-all.
But it was how he used that record tenure that made him a pillar of Capitol Hill — fighting, often with florid words, for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and building, always with canny political skills, a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money.
Cooper has also told staff that she wants the issue of sexual and domestic violence will be one of the Home Office's "core pillars" alongside terrorism, immigration and policing in what amount to her first concrete legislative proposals ahead of next year's election.
