Sentence examples for on a recess from inspiring English sources

October came and went and Congress went on a recess without consideration of the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts.

With the stroke of a pen on a recess commission, Obama should fill the Antonin Scalia vacancy "until the End of the Senate's next session".

"I don't think that there's any difference in a person's ability to function, whether they're there on a recess appointment or not," he said.

Wilson's nominations, submitted on the eve of a recess, were expected to meet with resistance, just as soon as Congress got around to considering them.

He designed the bed, slightly smaller than a double, to fit inside a recess on one side of the fireplace.

President Bush has used the only avenue remaining to him to install Charles Pickering Sr .of Mississippi on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process.

"This is not a soft-on-crime issue," Justice Safer-Espinoza said during a recess on Tuesday.

That was what he was doing, alone in his chambers on the first floor of the 140-year-old courthouse, during a recess on the morning of Jan.

After the Senate did not confirm his appointment, Mr. Bush installed him on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Feb. 20 as a "recess appointment," which does not require confirmation.

"This case is just another example of how the government is cracking down on all kinds of dissent," Fahmy told reporters from the defendants' cage during a recess on Monday.

Lower dies seem generally to have been disk-shaped so that they could sit in a recess on an anvil.