"legislation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The legislation needed to reflect that agreement languished for months.
- Yet this legislation has been languishing in our committee.
- Yet such legislation has languished for six or seven years, and seems unlikely to pass this year.
- Such legislation has languished in Congress for several years.
- It was at times lonely in the minority, she said, watching proposed legislation languish.
- This legislation languished before the full legislature, during a particularly gridlocked session, and was placed on the back burner, pending resolution of "more pressing" legislation.
- But after just an hour of debate, communication between Democrats and Republicans broke down, leaving the two sides arguing over rules tonight while the legislation languished.
- The legislation, however, has languished in the Democratic-led Assembly.
- The legislation, however, has languished in committee since Mrs. Whitman tucked it away there last June.
- But the controversial legislation languished on Capitol Hill until well after his retirement.
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