Sentence examples for legislative war from inspiring English sources

The legislative war on terror epitomises Labour's approach to law-making as it has evolved over the past eight years.

Neither does Mr. Bush often throw himself into the red-hot center of a legislative war, as Mr. Clinton did.

Southern opponents were girding for full-scale legislative war that is almost certain to reach its climax in a drawn-out Senate filibuster.

A master strategist, Mr. Cicconi (pronounced si-CONE-ee) internalizes the art of regulatory and legislative war — and Operation Cupcake is but one of the efforts to come out of his shop.

Within hours of Donald Trump's victory in the Presidential election, the state of California had declared itself a defiant rebel alliance, ready for legislative war against the new White House.

And so it went as Democrats responded to invitations to attend this weekend's civility retreat, the third such gathering where Democratic and Republican members of the House were asked to put aside their partisan differences and make peace -- or at least smile sweetly as they make legislative war.

So, aficionados of legislative war-games, grab this playbook and settle in.

Lessons From History Hotly contested legislative wars are traditional fare in Washington, of course, and bills are often shaped by the push and pull of lobbyists — representing a cornucopia of special interests — working with politicians and government agencies.

Many opponents fought together in two previous legislative trade wars: the 1993 North American Free Trade Act (Mr. Clinton won that round), and the debates in 1997 and 1998 over granting the President fast-track negotiating authority (Mr. Clinton lost those).

Despite the Nepalese government prioritising the issue of gender-based violence since the war, legislative changes – including outlawing marital rape and introducing a law against domestic violence – often go unenforced.

The UN is always under the self-interested influence of major powers; countries should sort out their meddling in the UN in pursuit of their own interests, before criticising the world body for shoddy work in general.Ambrose TanSingaporeRetortSIR - You say that George Bush has placed tort reform at the centre of his second-term legislative programme ("The war on tort", Economist.com, January 26th).