Sentence examples for legislative stage from inspiring English sources

In recent weeks, McCaskill and Gillibrand panned the Campus Safety Act and encouraged dues-paying sorority and fraternity chapters to oppose the legislation, which is at a much earlier legislative stage than their own bill.

Musicians are becoming experienced at performing on the legislative stage.

His first act was to push for higher congressional salaries, an idea that was booed off the legislative stage by outraged public opinion.

The parties attempt to realize the second principle of justice at the legislative stage by shaping the laws that regulate property, contract, inheritance, taxation, hiring and minimum wages, and so on.

The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Britain, indicating that the bill is assured of passage as it moves through further legislative stages.

LONDON — The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Britain, indicating that the bill is assured of passage as it moves through further legislative stages.

While few private members' bills make it on to the statute book, this legislation, put forward by Rob Marris, the Labour MP for Wolverhampton South West, is almost identical to a bill advanced by former lord chancellor Lord Falconer, which passed its initial legislative stages in the upper house last year before running out of parliamentary time.

The changes still need to be approved by two further legislative stages.

To illustrate: at the constitutional and legislative stages the parties specify abstract basic liberties such as "freedom of thought" into more particular rights like the right to free political speech, which is then further specified as the right to criticize the government, the special rights of the press, and so on.

Mr. Bush agreed to ask a legislative committee to conduct three hearings after two black legislators staged a sit-in at the Capitol.

He and several members of the Asian and Pacific Islander legislative caucus staged a news conference condemning Brown's decision and committing to reintroducing the bill next year.