Sentence examples for legislative pledges from inspiring English sources

Having fulfilled the bulk of his main legislative pledges, including measures to end the state oil and gas monopoly and open up the telecoms sector to competition, Peña Nieto is not expected to rely on Congress as much in his last three years.

Taking the opportunity to make one of his first specific legislative pledges since being elected speaker, Mr. Miller said that the Council would soon pass a law requiring city agencies to furnish low-income New Yorkers using their services with information about enrolling in public health insurance programs.

Mr Miliband may be the first to put a legislative pledge in writing - but he's certainly not the first to raise the zero-hours contracts issue.

In the legislative pledge addressing redistricting, signers vow that "if I am elected to the Legislature of New York State, I will support the creation of an independent, non-partisan Redistricting Commission to draft advisory maps for the Legislature to review and approve".

The day before, General Buhari, who has accused the president's ruling People's Democratic Party of widespread rigging in the legislative vote, pledged "mass action" in the event of fraud.

If the senators keep their written pledges, substantial legislative reform would be a strong possibility in the areas of redistricting by an independent commission, ethics reform identifying and limiting the private employment of elected public servants in the legislature, and requiring a state budget to be balanced budget pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday will issue a legislative blueprint called "A Pledge to America" that they hope will catapult them to a majority in the November elections.

Whereas the Gingrich-era contract was a terse, 865-word list of legislative priorities, the 2010 pledge reads like an expansive, even radical manifesto.

Although he didn't back a specific legislative response, the president pledged to be more engaged in the fight to end military sexual abuse.

Legislative leaders have made similar pledges that would include projects in the city, like the science park that the New York University School of Medicine has proposed for city-owned land near Bellevue Hospital Center on the East Side of Manhattan.

But the fact that the Parti Québécois did not capture a majority of legislative seats makes realizing that pledge difficult and is likely to thwart any significant actions by her government to secede from the rest of Canada.