Sentence examples for void bill from inspiring English sources

"It was a void, a black void," Bill recalls.

At 3am, legislators ruled that the vote was void and the bill had fallen.

Meanwhile, the State Legislature would hastily pass a bill voiding the termlimits provision of the City Charter.

In such a situation, the idea of simply exiting the customs union unilaterally and voiding the withdrawal bill would start to seem more and more appealing.

Most of the cuts don't take effect for several years, and the whole bill becomes void in 2010.

Most important, the bill would void California's Proposition 65, passed in 1986, which requires warning labels on products containing ingredients that may cause cancer or birth defects.

The proposed legislation, called the national uniformity for food bill, would void laws like a New Jersey prohibition on the sale of the herbal supplement ephedra to anyone under 17.

The bill would void mandatory arbitration clauses in employment, consumer and franchise disputes.

The bill would also void any same-sex civil union obtained in another state or in countries like Canada, which earlier this month became the third nation to legalize gay marriage.

In a little-noticed comment during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said that he agreed with a proposed amendment to the Senate's financial reform bill that would void those derivatives contracts that purposely evade mandatory clearing requirements.

Besides voiding the executive order, the bill the House panel adopted on a voice vote today said that presidents and former presidents -- but not relatives or vice presidents, as the order allowed -- could invoke executive privilege to keep specific papers secret.