Sentence examples for needed legislative from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, Assemblyman Brodsky said, the Spitzer administration needed legislative approval before it can sell the Javits Center block.

It would give the government of the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, desperately needed legislative clout, and fresh sway over some troublesome allies.

But they turned the President's sensible, popular, and urgently needed legislative reform into a bogeyman so scary that, even today, millions of Americans are still scared.

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Julia Gillard celebrated on Tuesday the passage of a controversial tax on profits generated by Australia's enormous mining boom, a much needed legislative victory for the embattled leader, who recently survived an embarrassing leadership challenge from within her own Labor Party.

Worried that they were going to be skewered for pushing a jobs bill that was stuffed with business tax breaks and pork, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, pulled the plug Thursday on a rare bipartisan proposal, gambling both with the party's best chance of posting a needed legislative win as well as with President Obama's new push for cross-party cooperation.

She warned Mr. Cheney that a "broad attack" in his final report on the pollution rules would wipe out her leverage over the industry and "permanently destroy our chance to achieve any needed legislative reforms we may seek in the future".

"The modern P.R.I. understands that it needs legislative leaders in congress who actually know how to deal with legislation and know how to persuade members and bargain with others," said Jorge I. Domínguez, a Latin American studies professor at Harvard.

It also needs legislative will from government".

The borrowing will not need legislative approval.

"You need legislative change to force [action] through", he concedes.

Such a zone would most likely need legislative approval.