"legislation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the wave of supporting proclamations gave Santa Anna the justification he needed to close Congress and repeal the unpopular legislation.
- Many Democrats have balked at the bill, siding with the Republicans, especially those facing difficult re-elections in congressional districts where they are hesitant to support unpopular legislation.
- He used his position in Parliament to highlight the colonial objections to the Quartering Act of 1765 and other unpopular legislation.
- Foreign assistance, with us since the Marshall Plan, has been perhaps the most unpopular legislation to come before Congress for some years.
- It swiftly moved to introduce politically unpopular legislation to kill trust conversions by imposing a new tax.
- This in turn prevents politicians from sneaking unpopular legislation through, piggybacked on legislation which is more likely to pass.
- It was not enhanced when he supported unpopular federal legislation requiring farmers to plant less wheat, part of an international agreement aimed at addressing worldwide oversupply.
- Government ministers, including Howard, felt the Coalition's new Senate majority should be used to implement the potentially unpopular legislation.
- But the Government called out the "backwoodsmen" - peers who usually do not attend - and got the unpopular legislation through unchanged.
- The government will have to face several hurdles before it gets this unpopular legislation through Parliament.
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