Sentences with phrase «left this legislation until»

«The government should not have left this legislation until the last minute before the summer,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

Not exact matches

Even leaving aside the issue of Lords reform (where they were not formally defeated but withdrew the legislation in the face of certain defeat) they had previously gone down to defeat in December 2011 on the motion that the House had considered the economy — as a result of an old fashioned Labour ambush, with Labour MPs hiding until enough Conservative MPs had gone home.

This legislation is based on values that would no longer be acceptable today and leaves many older widows with a stark choice between being alone until death or finding a loving companion late in life and losing a significant part of overall income.

Janice Grieshaber said she remembers Silver as the cold man who left them waiting and hoping in Assembly chambers until midnight on the last day of session, while hundreds of other pieces of legislation came up for a vote.

Because this year's partisan battles in the state Senate left the pension legislation stalled until now, the two retirement systems kept paying the 8.25 percent rate on fixed TDAs for an additional five months.

U.S. lawmakers always have reasons for what they do, so there must be one for why they didn't make public the 1,059 - page rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind until a few days before Congress began voting on the compromise legislation last week.

Increased statutory job - protected leave won't be available until and unless applicable employment standards legislation is amended.

However, fathers who work in provincially regulated workplaces will have to wait to take advantage of the EI Parental Sharing Benefit until employment and labour standards legislation is amended by their respective province or territory to include paternity leave.