Sentence examples for senate chose from inspiring English sources

As a child, I was taught that when the Roman senate chose to name August after the emperor, Caesar Augustus decided to sweeten the honour by robbing a day out of February and sticking it on to the end of his new month.

"Unfortunately the Senate chose not to follow the House and in particular we saw real division among Senate Republicans.

Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman who was shot in the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, said the Senate "chose to do the unimaginable: nothing at all".

Joseph Lieberman, an Independent who is conservative on security and foreign-policy issues and one of Israel's strongest supporters in the Senate, chose to speak publicly about Iran after the hearing.

But the stooping sensation finished out of the money on Tuesday evening when the State Senate chose not to pass a bill that would have rescued the bankrupt New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation.

When George W. Bush resigned in December 2000 and Mr. Perry ascended, the Senate chose Bill Ratliff, Republican of Mount Pleasant, to be lieutenant governor, and the membership of the Senate wasn't an issue.

In response to the university's senate executive choosing to resume classes this week, the union had decided to picket more aggressively, by stopping cars for slightly longer.

Canada's Senate is wholly nominated; members of the German Bundesrat, and of the French and Irish Senates, are chosen wholly or largely by indirect election.

Another way of looking at the figures is to imagine two Senates — one chosen by the 25 states where residents are more likely to have health insurance, and the other chosen by the 25 states where there is less insurance.

That House-Senate conference committee chose to keep the amendment, although its members tweaked the language to prevent unintended consequences, said the bill's author, Republican Senator Jane Nelson.

THE understandably outraged Illinois Republican Party e-mails reporters to comment on the apparent endorsement of Roland Burris by state Democrats.By failing to strip Rod Blagojevich of his senate appointment power, Democrats chose to trust a madman over the people of Illinois.Trivia question: When's the last time a party chairman called a governor (or senator, even) a "madman"?