Sentence examples for resorting to legislative from inspiring English sources

Republicans on Tuesday accused Democrats of resorting to legislative sleight of hand by planning to approve the Senate-passed health care bill tucked into the rule that sets the parameters of debate rather than holding a stand-alone vote on the Senate measure and a separate vote on a package of revisions to be included in an expedited budget bill.

Despite this, resort to legislative wisdom to justify under-inclusiveness, if used indiscriminately, may result in the watering down of the equal protection guarantee provided by Article 12(12.

Opponents of the Shays-Meehan bill are resorting to every legislative and political tactic to kill reform.

A central part of their strategy has been to tangle the legislative works, resulting in both sides' resorting to the most arcane legislative maneuvers, displaying sausage-making at its grubbiest.

These days, Republicans may be losing politically and resorting to increasingly anti-majoritarian means — gerrymandering, filibuster abuse, voter suppression, activist Supreme Court decisions, legislative terrorism — to nullify election results.

It is resorting to desperate measures.

So it is resorting to informal tools.

Hence, the government is resorting to detainment.

I began resorting to defensive slice shots.

Without resorting to drugs.

Resorting to binge eating, experiencing food cravings.