Sentence examples for rejected lawmakers from inspiring English sources

But he again rejected lawmakers' attempts to cast the scandal as a consequence of broader failings in Wells Fargo's leadership and corporate culture.

So if the ballot items, known as Measures 66 and 67, had been rejected, lawmakers would have been forced to hold a special session to find other ways to reduce spending or raise revenue.

The strikes have been organized on Facebook rather than called by union leaders, and, in West Virginia and Oklahoma, the teachers have rejected lawmakers' initial offers of pay raises; they have said that they also want to change the systematic underfunding of education.

However Ms Sultana's proposals were rejected by lawmakers.

PRESSURE RISES IN CYPRUS  |  Cyprus is scrambling to find ways to finance its bailout, after a controversial levy on bank deposits was rejected by lawmakers.

In an age when data is often available with a few keystrokes, the A.T.F. is forced to follow this manual routine because the idea of establishing a central database of gun transactions has been rejected by lawmakers in Congress, who have sided with the National Rifle Association, which argues that such a database poses a threat to the Second Amendment.

But just two hours after Mr. Obama, flanked by firefighters, construction workers and teachers in the Rose Garden, waved a copy of the jobs plan and issued his call for bipartisanship, Republicans took aim at the White House plan to pay for the jobs initiative through tax increases on more affluent Americans, most of them tax increases previously rejected by lawmakers.

To make matters worse, misguided congressmen have routinely introduced legislation that would deny citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants born on our soil a change that has heretofore correctly been rejected by lawmakers.

Ahead of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which came into force in 2000, both options of a backdoor and the idea of a key stored by a third party were considered and rejected by lawmakers.

That's no easy task, especially considering many of his plans have repeatedly been rejected by lawmakers and some would run afoul of the interests of the states and powerful industries.

The Pentagon budget asks Congress to begin a new round of U.S. Base Realignment and Closure proceedings, a politically unpopular request that was rejected by lawmakers last year and has already produced hearings this year, even before the decision was announced.