Sentence examples for stage of debate from inspiring English sources

The government won support from four crossbench senators – Bob Day, David Leyonhjelm, John Madigan and Nick Xenophon – to proceed to the next stage of debate on its bill to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission ABCCConstruction Commission ABCC

Council diplomats said the new American proposal included a serious offer of compromise in answer to France's demand for a second stage of debate and voting before the United States and its allies could go to war against President Saddam Hussein.

They are tentative and I hope those responding to them could leave to one side the abuse that any article by a politician provokes and instead help in saying which points are pertinent and which are irrelevant to the next stage of debate about what the democratic left does if we are to slow down and reverse the new hegemony of the centre and further right in Europe.

On Tuesday, the government decided not to go ahead with the programme motion to restrict the next stage of debate on the bill to 10 days, for fear it would lose against opposition from Labour and up to 100 backbench Tory MPs.

A row in the closing stages of debate about key provisions threatened to derail the bill.

The bill has yet to pass through three stages of debate by the legislative council – the second chamber of the Isle of Man's parliament, the Tynwald – and will receive its first reading there on 22 March.

At the moment, his colleagues in the House were in the final stages of debate over the Bush Administration's bailout of the U.S. financial system, a plan that Kucinich angrily opposed.

Unfortunately, the focus on improving patent quality seems to have been lost in all of the debate regarding patent trolls, as witnessed by the fact that none of the bills at various stages of debate in Congress even mention patent quality.

President Obama is in the final stages of debate prep for round two on Tuesday, and "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell" wants to help him out.

Still in the early stages of debate, the energy bill is rife with fossil fuel industry giveaways, including expedited permitting for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, subsidies for coal technology and more.

In addition, although bills can be amended by a majority of those present, approval at each of the three stages of debate requires 25 votes (or more in the case of a filibuster), even if some of the 49 senators are absent or abstain.