Sentence examples for legislative threat from inspiring English sources
Under legislative threat, the P.S.A.L. agreed to have coaches keep track of pitch counts, submit them with game results and post them on the league's Web site.
A statewide employee-benefits program that has enabled hundreds of local governments and school districts in New Jersey to save tens of millions of dollars on health insurance has averted a potentially crippling legislative threat.
By calling for bump stocks to be dealt with by administrative fiat rather than congressional action, the N.R.A. was looking to convert a legislative threat into a regulatory issue.
By John Cassidy October 6, 2017 By calling for bump stocks to be dealt with by administrative fiat rather than congressional action, the N.R.A. may hope to convert a legislative threat into a regulatory issue.
But Mr. Kelberman convicted him of bilking clients of more than $400,000 in lobbying fees by concocting a fictitious legislative threat -- a purported tort reform bill to open paint and asbestos companies to costly litigation -- which he then promised to nip in the bud.
So what would prompt the SEC to address one economic and legislative threat and ignore a comparable one?
In fact, the biggest legislative threats to getting a state budget completed are the printouts showing how the $4 billion would be spread among the state's schools.
Beyond his role in thwarting legislative threats, Mr. Gingrich also worked with Fannie and Freddie on a number of housing projects in the United States and overseas.
The industry and its crusade to rein in health care costs are already beset by lawsuits and legislative threats from all directions.
Still, the idea that Washington gridlock is an outgrowth of rank partisanship and ideological entrenchment misses a more compelling explanation of our political stasis: gridlock, legislative threats and fear help prime the donation pump.
MADISON AVENUE, facing growing legislative threats to one of the advertising industry's most lucrative categories, is stepping up the fight to protect its freedom to pitch prescription drugs directly to consumers.
