Sentence examples for started the constitutional from inspiring English sources

The debate on Thursday has started the constitutional and electoral clock ticking.

Florida's legislature was the first, passing by acclamation (no specific vote count) a "House Memorial" calling on Congress to start the constitutional amending process.

"The parallel increase in violence and failure to jump-start the constitutional process bodes very ill for making Iraq a showpiece of democracy in the Middle East". Since summer, the British have been talking about the possibility of changing tactics and installing an Afghan-style provisional government to take the reins until a constitution can be drafted and formal elections held.

Let's not even get started on the constitutional mandate to separate church and state.

He also hopes to beat his personal record at the European elections: in 1999 he received 3 million preferences; this time he wants to reach four million in order to be able to clear the way for reforms, starting from the constitutional one.

Starting at the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787, our entire government is based on compromise.

But he should also start respecting the constitutional and political system of which he is an integral part, a system that prescribes and protects the independence of the judiciary but that does not put it on a platform above the democratically elected, shielded from any and all direct criticism.

The governor successfully persuaded lawmakers to start the process for another constitutional amendment that would allow as many as seven privately run casinos in the state, beginning an approval process that will eventually require a voter referendum.

Representatives Ted Deutsch of Florida, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont have sponsored bills in Congress to start the process for a constitutional amendment to make it clear that corporations are not people, are not entitled to the rights of people, and cannot contribute to political campaigns.

The decision means that the treaty, which started life as the constitutional treaty eight years ago, is now likely to become law across the 27-nation union before any UK general election.

The attack was at least the third in the capital since the start of the constitutional council on Dec. 14.