Sentence examples for narrow legislation from inspiring English sources

This is the kind of worthy but narrow legislation that can easily get lost at the end of a session that is already running behind schedule and has been focused in recent weeks on a possible war with Iraq.

Just three weeks ago, the House narrowly defeated virtually the same bill after Republican leaders bowed to pressure from party moderates and promised to bring an even broader campaign disclosure bill to the floor by the July 4 recess if they voted against the more narrow legislation.

Democrats want narrower legislation, with more judicial control over the process.

The narrower legislation makes it a crime to sell or distribute videos that violate bans on animal cruelty by showing animals being burned, drowned, suffocated or impaled.

The strong 68-to-32 68-to-32 68-to-32 polarized Senate tossed the issue into the House, where the Republican leadership has said that it will not take up the Senate measure and is instead focused on much narrower legislation that would not provote a path to cinizenship for the 11 millioftenauthorized immigrants in the country.

Narrower legislation that would give states greater flexibility in implementing the rule, however, could draw wider bipartisan support.

They supported narrower legislation from Brown that the committee voted down Thursday, also on a party-line vote.

The White House statement went on to say, however, that the Obama Administration believes "online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy" and that 2012 should see the passage of narrower legislation that targets the source of foreign copyright infringement.

Since it is finally becoming less and less politically acceptable to throw trans women under the bus at all – and, broad or narrow, any legislation we get behind isn't going to get a fair hearing in the Republican-controlled House – I see no reason not to push for everything we can get, rather than compromising from the start.

Mr. Greenfield tried to address these concerns by narrowing the legislation to ban only the stickers used to enforce street-cleaning rules.

But they also oppose narrowing the legislation to remove connotations for sites like Twitter.