Sentence examples for legislative tests from inspiring English sources

It wasn't due for any legislative tests.

According to the federal government, potential medicinal cannabis licensees "must pass strict fit and proper persons requirements and other legislative tests relating to security".

One early legislative test, no matter who is president, will probably come over campaign finance legislation.

Despite Labor's opposition, Mr. Sharon's budget passed its first legislative test tonight with 67 votes in the chamber of 120.

But even as Republicans looked on the bright side, they acknowledged that Mr. Bush had come up short on his first big legislative test.

One early legislative test will be the push by many lawmakers, led by Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, for an overhaul of campaign finance laws.

Either would blow a huge hole in next year's budget, already stretched because of a promised inflation-busting hike to the minimum wage and linked social-security spending.But the biggest legislative test for Ms Rousseff will come in a vote due before the end of the year on extending a provision, in force since 1994, that gives the government discretion over 20% of federal spending.

A bill that would make childhood vaccinations harder to avoid survived its first legislative test Wednesday, after a three-hour hearing marked by raw emotion on both sides of the issue and a packed rally at which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the measure.

And with about 15 states preparing to tie test scores to teacher evaluations after a nationwide legislative push toward test-based accountability, Schaeffer said, the pressure is only bound to increase.

This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee.

When Lieberman and his colleagues introduced a number of legislative proposals designed to test the loyalty of Israeli Arabs and restrict their freedom of speech, it was against a backdrop of a society increasingly receptive to the views that underlie such measures.