Sentence examples for long-standing requirements from inspiring English sources

The final steps played out in a heated debate before several parliamentary votes that were once deemed so controversial that senators call it the "nuclear option". This violated long-standing requirements that rules changes had to be approved by a two-thirds majority.

Other proposals eliminate the fundamental requirement that forest management protect wildlife, reduce public involvement in forest planning and scale back long-standing requirements for environmental reviews and public participation in highway construction and offshore oil development.

Was it a "long-standing requirement" for home state senators to be consulted about judicial nominations?

The long-standing requirement of obtaining official authorization for foreign travel was suspended, as was the requirement of a letter of invitation from a person or an institution abroad.

And employers must prove that before turning to the visa program, they have advertised extensively for workers in the United States — a long-standing requirement that in the past was not closely enforced.

Schumer goes too far to describe the "blue-slip" practice as a "long-standing requirement" that goes back "generations". In the past 100 years, a strict blue-slip policy existed for just 32 years, under two different committee chairmen.

Speier is working with a bipartisan group of politicians to introduce federal legislation that would overhaul the way Congress handles harassment claims, including offering better legal counsel to employees with allegations, and removing a long-standing requirement that they sign nondisclosure agreements.

Schumer's office acknowledged that "long-standing requirement" in the article should have been written as "practice" or "tradition". But the office argued that the Republican majority has smashed through that tradition by allowing consideration of judges for circuit courts even though they had received negative blue slips from both home state senators.

Thanks to the farm bill's long-standing conservation requirements, soil erosion in the United States dropped by 43 percent between 1982 and 2007, saving more than a billion tons of rich topsoil, according to the Agriculture Department.

The competing claims were the latest salvos in an escalating dispute over whether the Bush administration has complied with long-standing statutory requirements to preserve official White House records -- including those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history and in case of any future legal demands.

He spoke out repeatedly about the virtues of the Senate as a "cooling saucer" for democracy, due in large part to its long-standing supermajority requirement.