Sentence examples for master legislators and from inspiring English sources

Having failed in his insurgent challenge to President Jimmy Carter, Mr. Kennedy was finally free to focus with passion and political craft on his more natural calling as one of the master legislators and great reformers in the modern Senate.

She is unshakable in her self-confidence — "a master legislator and a dazzling fundraiser," Pelosi calls herself — convinced that Republicans attack her only because she has been so very effective.

"A lot of people," Sroka added, "seem to forget, because he's this wild-haired socialist from Vermont, that this is the guy who has been a master legislator, in terms of deal-making, and figuring out how to get his way, despite the fact that the other side is against him almost every time".

The best moments feature Johnson the master legislator, strategizing how to wheedle support from Republicans like Everett Dirksen and Southern Democrats alike.

Mr. Obama also sought tutorials from Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, considered the Democrats' master legislator.

He became a master legislator, even as his liberal politics made him -- prior to Mrs. Clinton's arrival -- the Democrat Republicans most liked to use to raise money.

Rousseau saw the latter problem as both common and pernicious: "Wherever the clergy constitutes a body," he wrote, "it is master and legislator in its domain".

Outside participants (non-legislators) were more likely than legislators to mention science in their testimony; the percentage of arguments coded as scientific in each state ranged from 1%35%% among legislators, and 0% 62% among non-legislators; non-legislative use of scientific arguments was twice as high as that of legislators in every state but Louisiana and Oregon.

The plan of Frederick B. Lacey, the special master appointed by the federal court in Manhattan, would place pairs of incumbents in two matchups that legislators and their aides say would probably knock off one Democrat and one Republican.

State regents and legislators — and much of the public — take it as self-evident that every young person should be made to master polynomial functions and parametric equations.

But legislators and governors might.