Sentence examples for secure legislation from inspiring English sources

If they help to secure a Labour government, they will be in a stronger position to secure legislation for proportional representation by 2018.

Later she supported her husband's successful efforts to secure legislation making women eligible to serve in school offices and as notaries public and to be equal guardians of their children.

He urged a boycott of the products of slave labour, advocated establishment of an area in the Southwest as a home for freed slaves, and helped secure legislation that brought an end to slavery in New York state.

In 1885, together with William Thomas Stead, he stood trial at the Old Bailey on a technical charge connected with the successful attempt to secure legislation protecting young girls in moral danger, but he was acquitted.

Kaifu was forced from office in late 1991 when his efforts to secure legislation for Japanese noncombat participation in UN peacekeeping efforts which was passed in 1992—and anticorruption measures failed to gain Diet support.

In 2009, US-based climate NGOs were stunned by the failure to secure legislation to cap emissions, a win they had assumed was a done deal once it cleared the House of Representatives.

Within days he had secured legislation guaranteeing the banks, and on March 12, he took to the radio for the first of his fireside chats.

Within days of taking office, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said he hoped to respond to a surge in police retirements last year by securing legislation that would make it more attractive for officers to continue on the job.

Whitlam also secured legislation to address Kerr's financial concerns about the position, including authorising a pension for the Governor-General or his widow.

He was opposed by a powerful political machine known as the Jockey Club, whose main interest was securing legislation to allow parimutuel betting at the state's horse racetracks.

The military has been struggling with the financial impact of predatory lending on service members for years, securing legislation in 2006 cracking down on some forms of high-interest credit, particularly payday lending.