Sentence examples for procedural barrier from inspiring English sources

The official justification will surely be that all revenue bills have to originate in the House, but that's a procedural barrier that could easily have been sidestepped if Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, hadn't refused to do so.

In the resulting run-off campaign, Mr Chambliss told Georgians that he would be a "firewall" against hefty Democratic majorities in Congress: his presence would guarantee the Republicans at least 41 votes in the Senate, enough for them to mount filibusters, the chamber's formidable procedural barrier to legislation.

On a 48 to 49 vote, the bill which would have instead set up a federal, voluntary GMO labeling system fell well short of the 60 votes needed to clear a key procedural barrier.

AFP and other organizations wrote Blunt a letter, expressing support for the amendment, which, the letter said, would "create a procedural barrier against carbon taxes or fees in the future".

Other studies employ disclosure of a prey to a predator through a physical or procedural barrier that prevents predation.

Procedural barrier is that the place of evidence on patient preferences in pharmaceutical coverage decisions and CPG development is not well determined.

Such an exception to the usual procedural barriers should be "rare" and confined to an "extraordinary case," the court said.

In that ruling, the court unanimously rejected a request from the Bush administration to break down many of the procedural barriers between criminal prosecutors at the Justice Department and counterintelligence agents at the F.B.I.

The quandary is particularly acute in the case of this partnership, because it seemed to thrive on arrangements -- procedural barriers known as "Chinese walls" -- that were actually intended to protect investors.

The law erects procedural barriers to those seeking habeas corpus relief and was specifically intended to limit the number of petitions inmates are permitted to file, even those relying upon claims of actual innocence.

But Ms. Carty's government did not learn of her case until it was too late, and the expensive lawyers it has since hired for her have faced procedural barriers.