Sentence examples for legislature threatening from inspiring English sources

Two days after ousting a head of Congress loyal to President Alberto K. Fujimori, opposition lawmakers named their candidate today to lead the legislature, threatening to undermine further Mr. Fujimori's fading hold on power.

Every time, Atlantic City takes two steps forward, such as luring new money to the city and electing a competent mayor, it takes three steps backward with the New Jersey legislature threatening to legalize gambling in North Jersey.

In New Jersey, the battle over pensions and health care has turned into an intramural fight among Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, threatening to shake up the party's leadership and weaken it in coming elections, thereby strengthening Mr. Christie's hand.

He had just faced down the Legislature, threatening a veto unless he got his way on the beginnings of budgetary reforms he had been pushing for some time.

After defense lawyers argued for disclosure about the drugs, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed to a temporary stay, but the state legislature threatened to bring impeachment proceedings against the justices, and Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma governor, threatened to fight the delay; the execution went forward as planned.

Wounds are still fresh here at the Detroit Symphony; the Michigan legislature threatened in 1989 to withdraw state financing, which amounted to as much as $4.5 million a year, if the orchestra did not immediately add five blacks to the two it had.

To support boycotts and divestment today is to risk becoming the object of intimidating accusations of anti-Semitism and, for some public universities to risk funding from state legislatures threatening to punish institutions that join in the global movement.

The new owners want him working for them, since he is an "excellent operations guy .The Texas state legislature is threatening to block the deal, even though that is strictly beyond its power.

Indeed, they will probably have to be over well before then, because the Florida legislature is threatening to appoint its own slate of electors if it appears that the legal contests will continue up to that day.

But that would be unwise, for Mr. Hatoyama is caught in a vise, with the Americans squeezing from one side and a small left-wing party (upon which his majority in the upper house of the legislature depends) threatening to quit the coalition if he makes any significant concessions to the Americans.

For example, no one at Louisiana State University stepped in to stop the construction of an $85 million lazy river on campus, even though the state legislature was threatening hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts.