Sentence examples for whole legislative from inspiring English sources

The church's behind-the-scenes influence over the whole legislative process on gay marriage was clearly disproportionate to any support its views had in the country at large.

Then, if Governor Pataki signed it, the whole legislative gang could celebrate a real success in a year with far too few of them out of Albany.

One well placed Tory said: "If the programme motion does not go through the government's whole legislative business will be gummed up for the rest of the parliament.

At the time of Blockburger, it was not customary to make the whole legislative history connected with particular statutes in adjudication part of the conventional apparatus of an opinion.

This eventually left Cameron, with his belief that his whole legislative programme was under attack, to make what appears to be a legitimate judgment – that the differences were unbridgeable.

It was the sense that his whole legislative programme was being taken hostage that forced Cameron to act, after another round of inconclusive talks between the leaders on Wednesday.

Though faithful to the precept that freedom is imperiled if the whole of legislative, executive, and judicial power is in the same hands, The Federalist No. 47, pp. 325-326 (J. Madison) (J. Cooke ed.

If Democrats in the House can agree to pass the Senate bill, and if Democrats in the Senate (only 50 of them, meaning the Liebermans and Nelsons would be irrelevant) can agree to fix their bill using reconciliation, then that is a path forward to success in the whole prolonged legislative battle.

On the whole, then, the legislative branch of government became little more than a rubber stamp.

A lot of money (more than $40 million in 2009, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest) has been expended to convince the public as a whole, and our legislative bodies in particular, that correlation isn't causation on this one.

"Fortunately," he said, "Gramm-Rudman-Hollings was so contrary to the culture and the Constitution and whole flow of legislative history, the first thing we did was to ignore it".