Sentence examples for past legislation from inspiring English sources

"They were not about political, ideological viewpoints over past legislation," she said.

Past legislation to promote stem-cell research has passed the Democratic-led Assembly andieded in the Republican-led Senate.

Mark Thorn, a spokesman for the I.N.S., would say only that "it is our policy not to comment on any proposed or past legislation".

The Florida senator has worked hard to recapture support among conservatives skeptical of his past legislation and, confronted with a video clip highlighting his changing positions on immigration, Rubio insisted: "I have never supported blanket amnesty".

"We're in the center of Rome surrounded by bars," and business has been good said Noemi Verzilli, a salesclerk at Taba, an ethnic clothing and knickknack store in Rome's Campo de' Fiori that had taken advantage of past legislation to stretch opening hours.

"I believe Berlusconi now has the chance to present himself as a man who takes care of the country, instead of taking care of his own interests, like he did in the past legislation," said Stefano Folli, an editorial writer at Il Sole 24 Ore.

In the past, implementing legislation for such pacts contained non-germane provisions, allowing prior presidents to buy support and enact other legislation they could not get enacted by Regular Order.

"I promised the President we were not going to suffer the fate of past social legislation," Magaziner told me.

Mr. Bush, who as a candidate in 2000 criticized what he called a "genocidal campaign" against the Armenians, said lawmakers had better things to do than be caught up in the past, pursuing legislation that has unsettled an important ally.

In New York, Gov. George E. Pataki has voiced support in the past for legislation, which failed in the Legislature, that would have lowered the state's limit to 0.08.

In years past, telecom legislation barely registered with voters.