Sentence examples for of legislation making from inspiring English sources

The Westchester County district attorney and two legislators said they would urge the passage of legislation making animal cruelty an easier crime to prosecute.

He added thousands of acres to state parks, delivered several pieces of legislation making it easier for unions to organize and promised to push an equal rights bill for homosexuals through the Republican Senate.

Not only have labor leaders faced the embarrassing enactment of anti-union legislation in onetime labor strongholds like Wisconsin and Michigan, but they could not even win passage of legislation making it easier to unionize when President Obama was elected and the Democrats controlled the House and Senate.

One piece of legislation making its way through Washington involves "resolution authority," which would give the government the ability to put a too-big-to-fail financial company into a conservatorship in much the same way the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is able to unwind a commercial bank without putting it into bankruptcy.

"As that and other pieces of legislation make their way through the legislative process, we will consider, we'll evaluate them," Earnest said.

How does her sponsorship of this kind of legislation make Ms. Kelly a moderate?

Restaurant corporations say consumer demand, not the threat of legislation, made them change.

DOMA is a discriminatory piece of legislation, made even more problematic by its disrespect for laws enacted by the states: it prevents the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages that are legal in the states in which they occurred.

Co-author of the paper Darren Naish from the University of Southampton, says: "There have been enough sightings of exotic big cats which substantially pre-date 1976 to cast doubt on the idea that one piece of legislation made in 1976 explains all releases of these animals in the UK.

Surely they could give me a definitive ruling on whether the move was legally sound and - if yes - which piece of legislation made it so.

A bipartisan groundswell of support for equity crowdfunding emerged and, in roughly seven months in 2011-2012, a piece of legislation made it through both houses of Congress and onto the president's desk for signature.