Sentence examples for taking over the floor from inspiring English sources

Rand Paul attempted to derail efforts to reauthorize bulk collection of American phone records in a dramatic showdown on Wednesday by taking over the floor of the Senate hours before a weekend deadline to renew the justification of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance.

There were reminders too that real, non-Olympic life was just around the corner, with the most commercially successful bands garnering the biggest cheers; supermodels strutting stuff; traffic - albeit wrapped in newspaper - taking over the floor.

So it was no mistake that his Democratic colleagues turned to the congressman from Georgia on Wednesday, asking him to lead a new stand by taking over the floor of the United States House of Representatives.

Just when the crowd seems to be settling on its identity, slick men in "Saturday Night Fever" gear accompanied by glitzy girlfriends appear, taking over the floor with showy footwork.

Republicans squared off with them, criticizing Democrats for taking over the floor and delaying work. .

In the mean time America-like school shootings are taking over the floor in Europe which makes politicians cry for more serious punishment.

To just completely take over the floor when we're supposed to be in session: it's unprecedented".

The branch will be razed to make way for an 11-story hotel, with the library taking over the first floor and an underground level.

Sitting in PagerDuty's expansive second floor office space in San Francisco — space that the company will soon double by taking over the first floor — Tejada recalls acting "like a filter for very technical people who were very proud of the IP they'd created" but who couldn't explain it to anyone without relying on jargon.

SPARK had recently moved to George Washington Carver Elementary School, taking over the third floor.

Soon after the 18,000-sq-ft space opened off Berkeley Square last September, it was announced that River Cafe owner Ruth Rogers would be taking over the ground floor.