Sentence examples for legislative years from inspiring English sources

— In the bachelor-style apartment of his legislative years, where Rick Perry liked "to kick back and watch football with a cold one," the future Texas governor forged a lasting bond with a hard-charging roommate who preferred smoking a pipe, studying flip charts and strategizing.

For the legislative year, though, the issue has been silenced.

"He's closing out the legislative year with a series of successes, unexpected ones," Mr. Emanuel said.

Now it was time to take the last four-day weekend of the legislative year.

"This legislative year has seen the most action on renewable mandates to date," the documents said.

A month into this campaign-compressed legislative year, it is still hard to tell which Republican-controlled Congress will prevail.

It was introduced unsuccessfully in every legislative year in Congress from 1923 until it was finally passed in 1972.

The beginning of a new legislative year is one of those moments when hope briefly triumphs over experience.

Last year, if you had asked us to assess New York State's legislative year, we would have found it hard to get beyond a sigh of disappointment.

The first budget tussle of the legislative year is likely to be over how big a surplus the nation should count on over the next decade.

PAGE A22 HELP THE PARKS Between the summer recess and the fall's campaigning, we fear that the rest of the legislative year will be wasted.