Sentence examples for small senate from inspiring English sources

The relatively small senate, of about fifty members, debates and proposes laws.

On September 12th, a packed audience in the small Senate chamber heard a remarkable story.

Set in Utica, where Cato and a small Roman Senate make a stand to preserve the republic, the tragedy tells the story of a statesman's fatal failure to fight an approaching empire.

Following the momentous vote by its smaller neighbor's senate this month — making it the first nation in the world to completely legalize the soft drug — Argentina's anti-drug czar Juan Carlos Molina has called for a public discussion in his country about emulating the measure.

Despite their victories, the small group of senators continued to lock up the senate to prevent any pro-war legislation from passing.

The stunning, convincing, and unexpected victory of economics professor David Brat over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the 10 June Republican primary in Virginia's seventh congressional district very likely puts an end to the already small chance that the Senate-passed immigration reform bill can become law in the foreseeable future.

Our rather bewildering drive took us through the main governmental district, at the very center of which is the vast and imposing Plaza of the Three Powers — legislative, executive, and judicial — dominated by twin administrative skyscrapers, a great bowl-like structure for Brazil's house of representatives, and a smaller, domed one for its senate.

Each vote for mayor, each contribution to an auditor's campaign, each phone call on behalf of a state senate candidate are all small acts of civic participation which can help our LGBTQ community build and sustain our political power.

(While coined by White House speechwriter William Safire, the term was uttered by Mr. Agrew) Last night, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski joined the small but growing club in paying tribute to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at a fund-raiser for her senate colleague.

Senate polls are generally more difficult because voters aren't primarily thinking about their senate vote, and because relatively small shifts in votes can produce very different senate results.

In the Senate the Democrats, who now command a smaller majority in the chamber, tried to force changes to parliamentary rules that would narrow the ability of a senator to mount a vote-delaying filibuster.