Sentence examples for prior bill from inspiring English sources

May has been spearheading a drive to expand surveillance powers in the UK since long before the current Investigatory Powers bill was drafted, with her prior bill faltering when the government's former coalition partners refused to support it (dubbing that draft legislation a Snoopers' Charter — the same moniker critics like rights group Privacy International apply to her new surveillance bill).

The prior bill has not made it out of committee, and last week HB 11 was shelved as a resolution, meaning burns will continue, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality will spend the next year studying them.

The song even turned up at the Olympics' closing ceremony, presumably having been arranged before the 2012 games defied their prior billing as the world's most expensive inevitable cock-up.

Although prior bills remain stalled in Congress, the debate over national security and privacy rights resurfaced in recent weeks when an amendment to curb NSA surveillance was only narrowly defeated in the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, Senator Bob Dole, the Republican Presidential frontrunner, delivered a speech on the Senate floor, without prior notice, and concerning no bill in particular, denouncing Hollywood for producing movies about "loveless sex".

Less than 18 hours prior, the bill's chief sponsor, Senator Lieberman, was surrounded by corporate lobbyists in a "packed house" at the Capitol Hilton.

We created a cohort of people with diabetes who had at least one diabetes incentive code billed between 1 January 2002 and 31 August 2006, who had diabetes for at least 6 years prior to billing of the first code, and who were alive 2 years after billing of the first code.

"I had concerns with the bill prior to this amendment," he said.

Prior to the bill's signing, several businesses and conferences warned the state against ratifying the law.

Williams said such drafting problems should have been "ironed out" prior to the bill being introduced to parliament by immigration minister Peter Dutton.

Prior to the bill, residents in California could only sue those who posted images of them after the event in a costly and lengthly legal process.