Sentences with phrase «better chance of passage»

«If Obama is as popular in three months as he is today, this legislation will have a much better chance of passage,» Mayer said.

The chamber's mainstream Democrats say progressive priorities like campaign finance reform and the Dream Act would stand a better chance of passage if they, in coalition with the IDC and wayward Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn — who sits in the GOP conference — held the majority.

The PMA supports a federal approach to sales tax reform because it will eliminate the Affiliate Nexus Tax laws that have devastated hundreds of thousands of affiliate marketers around the country, it is Constitutional, and it has a very good chance of passage.

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Senate candidates have been circling around the issue as well, with Republicans accusing Democrats of blocking the passage of bills that have a chance to become law.

The fold - out booklet contains «The Conditional Mood,» a nice, thorough essay by critic Dennis Lim that considers the film in terms of Kieslowski's oeuvre as well as Polish political history, plus «Chance or Fate,» the surprisingly brief passage from Danusia Stok's 1993 book Kieslowski on Kieslowski in which the director describes the picture in his own words.

A child who knows about hiking in the Appalachians will have a better chance of getting the passage right; a child who doesn't, won't.

As someone who taught AP for years, we were always in the game of «figuring out the test» in order to give our students the best chance at passage.

Public Works Financing thinks «chances of passage are better than in previous attempts because a broad coalition has been organized to support the bill against attacks from P3's nemesis, the Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG).

The Alexander Pryor legislation, I think Senator Alexander, who we might think of as the next Dick Lugar, is trying to provide cover for Democrats in tough election races to say that they're voting for something that has absolutely no chance of passage, because their bill would take 60 votes, whereas Senator Inhofe's much better resolution, which would block the rule entirely, only takes 50.

But there's more to the good news than the increase, which analysts say has a strong chance of passage with HUD aboard.