Sentence examples for win house from inspiring English sources

Mr. Boehner retooled his proposal to win House passage, but it was rejected by the Senate Friday night.

Mr. Rahall believes he has enough votes to win House approval.

McCarthy and a group of like-minded colleagues pooled resources and began a drive to bring fresh blood into the conference, finding five candidates who managed to win House seats in the Democratic tide of 2008.

And despite a long history of opposing any gun control measures, Mr. Foley helped win House passage of a 1994 ban on assault weapons, which played a major role in the Republican victory that fall.

While Democrats were forced to make major concessions on insurance coverage for abortions to win House passage of the bill, they were nonetheless ebullient on Sunday, with many saying the vote gave them momentum to push the bill forward.

But the ruling's effect was to add tremendous momentum to the effort to win House approval for the soft-money ban contained in the McCain-Feingold bill recently passed by the Senate.

One popular gimmick detailed by the audit was known as a Bakht account, which offered those who opened them a chance to win houses, cars and jewelry at glitzy prize drawings.

The supple-voiced mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova made a winning house debut as a flirtatious, lively Olga.

The prize ($125,000 and editorial coverage in Harper's Bazaar, now almost entirely inconsequential) is not dealt out evenly among members of the winning house but rather is given to the last candidate standing.

After science adviser and OSTP Director John Holdren acknowledged holding joint meetings with Chinese officials shortly after the ban went into effect this spring, Wolf took the next step and won House support this summer for a 55% cut in OSTP's budget.

Nowadays the captain of the winning house team comes to the front of chapel and ceremonially taps the shield.