Sentence examples for motion legislative from inspiring English sources

Not only have the WikiLeaks revelations put secret services on the defensive and set in motion legislative acts to better control them.

Lord Howell told journalists: "I think [it will be] agreed that this is the right way to go forward and that processes should be set in motion - legislative and otherwise - for it to happen".

The fraternities wanted to speak to O'Neill about setting in motion a legislative effort concerning sexual assault.

Senate Republicans have taken the first big step toward repealing Obamacare, setting in motion a legislative process that could undo the largest expansion of government in a generation and leave more than 20 million Americans without health insurance.

Several attempts were made to save the four who were sentenced to die, including passage of a motion in the legislative council of the United Provinces (the colonial precursor to Uttar Pradesh) and a petition to the British viceroy, but they were rejected.

While the White House waited for the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-led Senate to go through the final legislative motions to make their budget impasse official, Mr. Obama was preoccupied with an event that on a normal day would be big news on its own — a White House visit from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

It was too early for Sturgeon to say whether she would want to challenge or block the UK's Brexit plan with a legislative consent motion at Holyrood – a mechanism whereby MSPs accept or reject UK legislation that affects the Scottish parliament's power.

In an interview with the Sunday Politics Scotland, she said that "of course" she would consider asking the Scottish parliament to vote down the legislative consent motions required for the legislation.

It is not clear that a legislative consent motion would be triggered by Brexit, but withholding consent is not the same as having the power to block.

In one such agreement early in 2011, Reid promised to stop filling the tree if Republicans would stop filibustering the motion to call up legislative measures.

Scotland's Brexit minister, Mike Russell, warned May that his government would ask the Scottish parliament to vote against that so-called legislative consent motion unless it was happy with its main measures.