Sentence examples for slow undoing from inspiring English sources

They appear in a sentence pledging not to "permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world".

Promising hearings before his subcommittee on the enforce ment controversy, Representa tive Dent declared that "I am certain that Congress is unwill ing to stand idly by and wit ness the slow undoing of its intentions". Mr. Dent said the Bureau had been given "wide latitude" in making, a gradual introduction of the new require ments but had failed to exer cise it.

In his final statement, Cook talked about his role sheparding Apple as the successor to Steve Jobs, "I'm not going to witness or permit the slow undoing of it.

And at last — after the long, slow undoing of corporate formality — business casual seems to have triumphed in the American workplace.

It was a stunning new twist in the slow, strange undoing of Mr. Espada, a Democrat who had sidestepped decades of rumors of corruption to bruise his way to the heights of New York State government, including staging an audacious power grab that won him a brief stint as Senate majority leader.

It has survived because Brazil is often slow to undo such anachronisms, but also because it suits the journalists' union to keep a closed shop.Now the Supreme Court is considering whether to strike out the law.

It has been abetted by a Supreme Court that blithely gutted an important section of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act and by a Congress that has been to slow to undo the damage caused by the court.

Yet it is a painfully slow business to undo a mistaken procurement decision.

(Donald Trump, for instance, is undoing a slew of Barack Obama's executive orders).

Now, the Clinton administration and Congress are scrambling to find ways to undo or slow the increase in fuel prices.

So, when we last met on the Hill, Republicans were focused on undoing a slew of federal regulations, many of them created by the Obama administration, as the foundation of their job creation strategy,  while the White House was pushing for the extension of a payroll tax cut and tax credits for employers.