Sentence examples for looked apt from inspiring English sources

Collins and Murkowski had looked apt to vote no all week after opposing the motion to proceed to the initial legislation.

Republicans looked apt last week to put forward a bill that would extend current government funding until March 31, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). is now pushing for a continuing resolution that would go into May, these sources said.

His adjective politikon really meant, for him, what it suggests to us: he was on about politics, not town-planning.Yet today the comparison with rats looks apt.

If so, the script is less than perfect: the mayor of Sofia, Stefan Sofianski caretaker prime minister in early 1997 and long seen as a potential rival to Mr Kostov has been getting ready to lead his groupinginto coalition with Simeon if Mr Kostov will not.The Simeon II movement too looks apt to split, sooner or later.

Elected Republicans now look apt to go to war after the election, if not before.

But the HFC looks apt to vote down a spending bill rule if it blocks Republican amendments.

In the absence of an updated CBO score, Republicans look apt to accept an upcoming partisan analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services instead.

And there are other hard-line right members who look apt to oppose any bill resembling this plan if it maintained the 2020 date for rolling back Medicaid.

However, while the House looks apt to approve the package ― which would cut roughly $7 billion from the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), $4.3 billion from a government vehicle loan program and more than $100 million in unspent funds to address Hurricane Sandy damage ― the White House said it looked forward to having a "conversation" with the Senate.

Freedom Caucus members still haven't given up on overhauling a linchpin of the bill ― the advance refundable tax credits ― but some members now acknowledge that major changes to the basis of the replacement language would pretty much amount to Republicans starting over, which doesn't look apt to happen.

Ray Robinson wrote that O'Reilly, "... towered nine inches above him; it would have looked more apt for Hassett to sell him a newspaper than contend with his bowling".