Sentence examples for passage of local from inspiring English sources

There were also comitia in municipia and coloniae for the election of magistrates and the passage of local legislation, but these comitia also decayed under the empire.

Riverkeeper's lobbying effort is focused on the passage of local anti-licensing resolutions -- which could ultimately bring pressure to bear on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency that issues the licenses.

The Teamsters have also been organizing Uber drivers in Seattle, and hope to start the process of collective bargaining soon, thanks to the passage of local legislation similar to the now-defunct California state bill.

To his credit, Jenkins encourages readers to push for larger, systemic changes, like reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 and the passage of local initiatives akin to those banning lawn pesticides in more than 50 Canadian municipalities.

My fight against the enforcement of the British libel judgment — first in New York and then with the U.S. federal government — and the subsequent criticism of British libel tourism by American legislators and media, led to the passage of local and federal laws protecting American journalists, authors and publishers from the enforcement of any foreign libel judgments.

The passage of local living wage ordinances, most recently in Washington D.C., is a good start.

For the second category, 15 serial passages of local lesions were performed in a separate experiment; these lineages conserved the ability of producing local lesions but never recovered the ability to generate systemic and symptomatic infections.

That legal vandalism prompted passage of a local preservation law known as the Blacker Ordinance, which prevented the wholesale destruction of the interiors.

Hanly advocated the passage of a local option law that allowed most of Indiana to ban liquor sales in 1909.

Koch spent about 18 hours in the sea before being rescued at the chance passage of a local steamer.

When the powerful cardinal fought tooth and nail attempting to prevent the passage of the local law prohibiting us to be discriminated against in jobs and housing.