Sentences with phrase «before reaching the floor»

Significant legislation is debated in conference before it reaches the floor, and if it seems unlikely that the Democratic supermajority can pass a bill by itself, it's often simply not brought to the floor.

Griffo said proper vetting takes time, and pointed to the process of judicial appointees — who often go through multiple committees in one day before reaching the floor for the final vote — as particularly problematic.

Raise your arms way overhead to make the sheet act like a parachute, and see if one of the children can run under the sheet from one side to the other before it reaches the floor.

Not exact matches

We are sitting at a round table in his large office on the second floor of the training complex before windows that look out on the trio of fields that nestle up against the lower reaches of the Alban Hills.

Before too long, N., who had been relatively unmobile, was turning over both ways, then scooting around on the floor, able to reach any toy of interest.

He'll begin this skill usually before he can bring his feet high enough off the floor to look down and see or reach them and even just before he can hold a toy well above his chest (at the «midline» of his body) to look at.

For 12 years, advocates have tried to change that limit with the Child Victims Act, and for 12 years, the act has failed before reaching a vote on the state Senate floor.

As will - they - or - won't - they speculation about the Senate gay marriage vote reaches a fever pitch at the Capitol, a source working closely with the Cuomo - estimablished New Yorkers for Marriage Equality coalition is warning the backlash against GOP lawmakers will be unlike anything seen before if a bill fails to reach the floor and pass.

Under Klein's power - sharing arrangement with Skelos, both leaders have to sign off before a bill can reach the floor for a vote.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said the legislation is still being reviewed and gave no indication as to whether or not the bill would reach the Senate floor for a vote before next week's legislative deadline.

One of the four bills that was shot down by the Senate before it could reach the floor to be voted on was the «no fly, no buy» bill, which would disallow those on federal no - fly lists from purchasing firearms.

They carried him, they commandeered an off - limits elevator, and the three men eventually reached the 36th floor before Wald said he could go no further.

«They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach.»»

In deeper parts of the ocean, the methane released from the ocean floor would likely never make it up to the atmosphere, since it would get used up by microbes before it reached the surface.

In a previous study she showed that marine snow can reach depths of several hundred meters within a few days, which contradicted previous theories suggesting that it might dissipate and dissolve long before reaching the ocean floor.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

If the snow's thickness reaches about 2,000 feet before the downward growing ice touches the lake bottom, the lake will be insulated enough to hold enough of the slight amount of geothermal heat coming up through the floor of the lake to prevent complete freezing.

Just before your legs reach vertical, extend your torso to lift your lower back off the floor into a candlestick position.

Just before the head reaches the floor, start to arch the spine so that you're looking up in the direction of the ceiling while exhaling.

Any effort to lift the device is considered an attempt, and if the implement does not reach proper height, or if the implement slips from the athlete's hands before touching the floor, the lift is disqualified.

So if you find your pelvis reaching the floor before your elbows are fully bent, return to Dog Pose and start over, keeping your pelvis high in the air.

They were such bold floor - to - ceiling images that they dwarfed the models, physically suggesting what the designer was saying: there was a long way to grow before reaching the heights of womanhood.

(Much later in the film, this attention to the sound track produces a Hitchcockian tour de force in which Julie, alone and frightened in her upstairs apartment, hears someone rush into her building and knock on several doors on the floors below before reaching hers.)

We need to have sufficient matting for each entrance way to get the water off the soles of the shoes before anyone reaches the hard flooring.

Texas — Texas» school voucher bill, the «Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program,» died before it even reached the Senate floor, thanks in no small part to the clear lack of support it received from state House members.

The car roars as one floors the accelerator at 40 and before I know it has reached 140 with an aggressive poise offering a great sense of control.

Home is beautiful and so is the location Home needs maintenance: bathroom toilet leaked from the floor in the 2 Queen bedroom ste; hot tub wouldn't get hot - was fixed the day before we left Villa concierge didn't explain to reach her by telephone required dialing 1 - AC and number.

When I have been playing it I seem to only reach up to floor 4/5 before dying or fainting XD.

It is currently before the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary where it must be considered before reaching the House floor.

«The bill will now move to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will be examined before it can reach the floor.

Think of it as a ground floor opportunity for reaching emergent clients before anyone else.

If the drop is just a temporary correction, then it's time to get while the price has reached a new floor before it jumps back up.

It's useful to have a rack within arm's reach of the bath, so it's easy to grab a fresh towel to dry off soggy children before they drip all over the floor.

In recent years, wooden flooring has reached further than it ever has before, namely into traditionally tile - only areas like kitchens and entryways.