Sentence examples for shutdown battle from inspiring English sources

Despite the uproar, Mr. Cruz did not offer a plan for how his party could prevail in the shutdown battle and suggested his colleagues were defeatists.

Republicans in Congress who lost the shutdown battle, and failed to destroy the Affordable Care Act before it came online, are now doing everything they can to bad-mouth and undermine it.

Yesterday, the specter of children with cancer being turned away from NIH's door became a political talking point for both sides in the shutdown battle, with Democrats and Republicans accusing the other of ignoring the plight of the sick.

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This coincided (not surprisingly) with the government shutdown battle and the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare website.

The shutdown battle is not over the funding levels at which the government will operate under a continuing resolution (CR) for fiscal year 2014.

Smaller energy-related measures — to undo the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on coal-fired power plants — are also likely to find broad-based support and, if tacked onto spending bills, could force the president into veto-versus-shutdown battles with Congress.

On Monday, in China's first comments on the government shutdown and debt-ceiling battle in Washington, Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said he had contacted Washington.

In the past week, its shutdown has created a battle between security and economics, with angry Virginia lawmakers threatening to push through legislation to force it open if the president did not act first.

Even before the government shutdown, realizing that this battle was fast approaching, education officials organized by the group held a rally in Washington featuring a mock bake sale, which they followed up by distributing bags of cookie crumbs to lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill.

Suthep, who served as deputy PM after Thaksin was ousted, has called the shutdown the protesters' last battle – a term he has admittedly used multiple times before – but vowed in an interview on Sunday that it would be non-violent and to call off his protest if civil war were instigated.