"successful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He led a successful filibuster against renewal of the act.
- He predicted a successful filibuster against legislation to revise campaign financing, for example, saying Democrats would write a bill to help themselves, not the country.
- It was also a rerun: during his 1986 re-election campaign, Mr. D'Amato led a successful filibuster to keep a trainer-jet contract on Long Island.
- But he didn't press the issue for six months - plenty of time for opponents to organize a successful filibuster in a Congress that was settling into its summer snooze.
- A group of Democratic Senators led a successful filibuster of the bill on December 21, and the language was subsequently removed.
- The successful filibuster defeated of the legislation.
- The meeting was turbulent, according to the Yonhap news agency, as small shareholders mounted a successful filibuster.
- When Republicans opposed President Lyndon Johnson's choice for chief justice, Abe Fortas, they led a successful filibuster to stop him from getting the job.
- It failed in September, when Sen. John McCain led a successful filibuster against it.
- A successful filibuster would insure that the campaign finance debate would end once again this year in a partisan stalemate.
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