Sentences with phrase «large number of legislators»

Even after all of these changes were introduced, a large number of legislators still couldn't bring themselves to vote for the reform.

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The governor jettisoned a large number of policy proposals he had hoped to yoke to the state budget, amid resistance from legislators.

Fried's position is that as a geographically small county with a population of 300,000, Rockland does not need the same number of legislators as much larger and more populous counties.

Well, regretfully, to an ever - growing number of state and local legislators who don't seem to spend a whole lot of time thinking critical — unless of course it will lead to larger contributions to their campaign funding — it does.

Society, as a whole, pays for the regulation and cleaning up of the mess through taxes to support the legislators, regulation authorities, enforcers and courts and donations to charitable groups that look after the large number of canine victims.

By placing an inordinate focus on a limited number of renewable energy sources, legislators are neglecting numerous other options that can make significant contributions to the larger social goal of an adequate supply of clean, low - carbon, reliable, and affordable electricity.

The efforts by legislators in Arizona and Georgia appears to be part of a larger national trend to alter the number of justices on courts of last resort as detailed here.