Sentence examples for straight legislative from inspiring English sources

The nod to the previous tenants comes in the form of the cringeworthy and almost impressively lame notices that are dotted around the restaurant, all written in the kind of straight, legislative style that the signs in the Asian Women's Centre probably would've had on the walls.

Her prose style is that of a campaigning journalist, but some of the same ground is covered across chapters, as in academic texts, perhaps to allow busy policymakers to go straight to the legislative proposals but still get the reasoning behind them.

Hours after the arrival of Friday's bleak economic news, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley pointed a finger straight at the legislative branch.

Why not fast-track any appeals challenging those legislative changes straight to the court that overturned the original law, and so avoid the long and costly climb back through the high court and the appeal courts, which so contributed to the delays in the Abu Qatada case?

Unfortunately, for the second straight year the State legislative session has ended without a vote on it.

While every conservative and ultra-conservative group has given him straight As on their legislative report card.

"I'm not expecting someone who can come in and have a good understanding straight away of all the legislative frameworks – we can provide training for that.

For the 17th straight year, the governor and legislative leaders failed to reach an agreement on a spending plan before the April 1 budget deadline.

In the markets, investors sought alternatives to Treasury bonds and pushed down American stock prices for the fourth straight day as reverberations from the legislative impasse appeared to take a toll.

For the third straight year, New York's two top legislative leaders failed today to break a protracted deadlock with Gov. George E. Pataki over changing the state's penalties for drug crimes that all sides agree are overly harsh.

Yet Mr Bush's first legislative gambit as president comes straight out of his Texas handbook.