"lawmaker" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The issue has prompted hospitals in several states to seek assistance from sympathetic lawmakers.
- Presidential advisers explained that negotiations with some sympathetic anti-abortion lawmakers on a compromise that would have enabled Mr. Bush to avoid vetoing the measure collapsed.
- That brought threats of legal action from welfare advocacy groups and some sympathetic lawmakers, who maintain that fingerprinting amounts to a change in welfare eligibility standards and therefore requires state legislation.
- The words of activists, sympathetic lawmakers and journalists can never adequately represent the feelings and situations of homeless people.
- Those efforts included a campaign to persuade sympathetic lawmakers, including Democrats, to convey their support to the White House.
- Meanwhile, they have methodically worked to whitewash their image, using public relations firms and sympathetic lawmakers to justify the group's heinous tactics.
- Campaigning against legislation that would force companies to account for the cost of stock options, corporate executives, lobbyists and sympathetic lawmakers have proclaimed options to be a pillar of the middle class.
- On Capitol Hill, the grandmothers pleaded with sympathetic lawmakers, who vowed to block legislation to make Elian an American citizen.
- In an editorial after the election, The Times described him as a "moderately conservative Republican" who was seen by his colleagues as "a thoroughly competent, sympathetic and responsible lawmaker."
- Throughout the Reagan years auto makers and coal-related interests, aided by sympathetic lawmakers, succeeded in blocking new clean air legislation.
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