Sentence examples for took executive from inspiring English sources

He took executive action to shield some young students from deportation.

Fortunately, in 2012, President Barack Obama took executive action, signing a memorandum that granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca).

He brought up the Emancipation Proclamation, saying it took executive action when Congress wouldn't act, and he compared the debt ceiling to that.

Yet days after the marches, Trump took executive action to expand the ban on USAid funding NGOs providing abortions, or even information about them.

One of the most strident Republican criticisms of Obama was that he took executive actions that should have been the purview of Congress.

Last fall, President Obama took executive action to cap monthly loan payments at 10percentt of discretionary income, down from 15percentt previously.

In 2009, workers took executives at Caterpillar France hostage during a dispute over the restructuring of operations in Grenoble.

Take executive pay, for instance.

Mr Burt said the Government should take "executive action" in matters of foreign affairs.

There is also some precedent for presidents taking executive action in this area.

The White House notes that the president has taken executive action to address gun violence.