Sentence examples for struck language from inspiring English sources

The House Financial Services Committee struck language from an investor protection bill that would have diluted the powers of state securities regulators when they pursued fraud cases.

McAuliffe struck language from the state legislature's budget that Republicans had inserted in the hopes of blocking a Medicaid expansion, which could provide health care to 400,000 uninsured Virginians.

One of the liveliest debates today was over a proposal to strike language endorsing development of a limited national missile defense system.

1. Arctic Drilling Vote on an amendment to a budget blueprint for fiscal year 2006 that would strike language that opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The Judicial Conference of United States Courts, a 27-judge panel led by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, decided to strike language from its new Internet-use policy that said the nation's 30,000 court employees had no right to privacy when they sent e-mail or surfed the Web.

He described a brief "battle" with the gay groups GOProud and Log Cabin Republicans over the platform, when a delegate from Nevada suggested striking language supporting a federal marriage amendment.

As Campbell spun conspiracy theories, Sens. Franken and Paul came together to draft a critical amendment to the cyber security bill to strike language that gave companies new authority to monitor and possibly block our private communications.

Seems Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan was the last to sign on to the new legislation before a last minute deal was struck allowing language to be put into the bill clearly stating that federal dollars for abortion would not be used.

The group will propose, however, striking out language in the amendment that prohibits legal protections for domestic unions.

Mr. Rangel never formally responded, and by late April, he had killed the effort in committee, striking the language that would close the loophole from the bill that Congress ultimately passed.

Swiss Re executives say that the case turns on a tightly scrawled note on one of the binders that strikes some language and replaces it with the phrase "subject to wording to be agreed".