Sentence examples for legislative resolution from inspiring English sources

A half-dozen applicants hired Patton Boggs's well-connected armada of telecommunications lobbyists to push for a legislative resolution.

But that would have required Mr. Perry's immediate signature of the bill creating two awards, plus a separate legislative resolution giving the second one to Mr. Murphy.

The legislator, Delegate Frank D. Hargrove, an 80-year-old Republican, said last week that he opposed a legislative resolution offering an official apology for slavery because no one living today was involved in it.

State judges, though, have sued the governor, contending that a legislative resolution from 1990 requires cost-of-living increases for judges and that leaving salaries unchanged despite inflation violates the state Constitution by effectively diminishing the judges' pay.

And the "transfer of power in the Senate has served a serious blow to their chances of any sort of legislative resolution," said Mr. Moyer of A. G. Edwards.

But with the Senate in Democratic hands, a legislative resolution is unlikely, so both sides are pressing their cases more widely, with an eye to November's battle for control of Congress as well as the presidency.

"I am using the legislative resolutions as an inducement to have universities look into this.

In a letter to the Republican leaders of the legislature announcing his decision to oppose the law, Mr. Koster acknowledged that the legislative resolutions, though nonbinding, were "impactful, as they give voice to the political will of Missourians".

In 1928 he introduced the legislative assembly resolution for the boycott of the British Simon Commission on constitutional reform.

Before the House of Deputies can vote on a resolution, a legislative committee must examine the piece of legislation first.

As a legislative matter, Mr. Boehner's resolution has no practical effect, and is little more than an expression of opinion.