Sentence examples for support a floor from inspiring English sources

Yet Gordon ordered far more of the Namur to be laid down than necessary to support a floor.

But today, 121 Democrats joined Republicans in supporting a floor amendment offered by the panel's ranking member, Representative Ralph Hall (R TX), to slash that total by another $8 billion.

Voters in four red states approved ballot initiatives to raise their state minimum wages on Tuesday, sending another message to Washington that Americans support a higher wage floor.

A structural performance-based design approach for steel beams supporting a composite floor system is presented allowing designers to specify fire protection to only a proportion of the steel beams within a given floor plate.

But at least one knowledgeable analyst thinks Byrd and coal state lawmakers like Senators Evan Bayh (D IN) or Claire McCaskill (D MO) need more incentives to support a bill on the floor of the Senate.

Then it turned out that the beams supporting a second-floor patio were rotting.

Dastyari did not say which Nationals and Liberal party MPs he thought may cross the floor to support a royal commission.

Glen Maxey, a gay Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, recalled an occasion when Governor Bush was visiting the House floor to support a bill that would have banned adoption by gay couples.

Turnbull faced an early embarrassment on Tuesday after three Nationals senators crossed the floor to support a symbolic Greens motion advocating changes to competition laws, and two others abstained from the vote.

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation will support a theater on the third floor, to be called the Ted Mann Theater, a home for retrospectives, screening series and special programming.

Representative Dick Armey of Texas, the majority leader, is leaning against the measure, his aides say, although he supports allowing a floor vote.