Sentences with phrase «proposals as hostile»

Democrats in the state Senate, fed up with gun - control bills going nowhere in the GOP - controlled chamber, are secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

The Democrats are (not so) secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

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The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

But, as the Council acts by unanimity, I can say that its position will be determined by whichever member state is both most hostile to Scotland's proposals and prepared to threaten a veto.

«This proposal might help support the vital role of identification of potentially hostile craft at sea, as long as some simple practical issues, such as keeping the lens clean of saltwater spray, do not inhibit its operation.»

The report gives three reasons for the inquiry: «a) legal aid is of pivotal importance as a vehicle for access to justice, b) the proposals for legal aid procurement were radical in the extreme and c) the reaction of the legal profession and other commentators was overwhelmingly hostile» (para 3).

Overall, the system is perhaps best described as a proposal for how the Lightning Network could manage trade - offs between performance, scalability and centralization while offering a network model that does not assume hostile behavior.

I received a copy of this proposal, which briefly described parental alienation as follows: The essential feature of parental alienation is that a child — usually one whose parents are engaged in a hostile divorce — allies himself or herself strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and rejects a relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification.