H. R.6061, The Secure Fence Act of 2006, was delayed in presentment, but cleared Congress and was presented. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?] Reference
This whole “rule with changes” = “bill”, for the constitutional requirement of bicameralism and presentment is unprecedented and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?] Reference
A presentment was a presentation, on their own motion, of an accusation against one or more persons. From Wordnik.com. [The American Judiciary] Reference
In those cases, charges are returned in what is called a "presentment". From Wordnik.com. [How the People May Bring Criminal Charges Against Bush] Reference
(I've recommended starting the clock at "presentment," the formal constitutional step when the president receives a bill from Congress.). From Wordnik.com. [Cato @ Liberty] Reference
"presentment" claims makes him ineligible was common knowledge at the time he ran. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Perhaps more serious still is Mr. Schiff's presentment concerning. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Judges of Assize comment favourably on the presentment of the Grand. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
Bottom as is displayed by his counterfeit presentment on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
Poor Lovejoy's letter reads as if he had a presentment of his coming doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818] Reference
Personality is in its essence immortal, though not unchanging in its presentment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
This presentment is included as an appendix to the report of the Attorney-General. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Hence the protest embodied in the following presentment of the Grand Jury on March 31. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
There seems to be no touch of burlesque intention in Luis de Leon's presentment of the man. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
Of her Grace of Gordon, we have, as our ideal presentment of her, the portrait by Sir Joshua. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Shelby readily pictured a few ruins of his own, but chivalrously refrained from their presentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
The older feminine presentment sent her belittling gaze over their heads and beyond them from the curtain. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
I had a sort of suspicion or presentment that, once fairly outside of the barracks, I would run against him. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
I cried with a start, as the strange coincidence of the presentment struck me, the date being even identical. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
The courageous and forcible presentment of ideas has time after time been rewarded by exclusion from the House of Commons. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
But, behind the lovely physical presentment, Nan felt she could detect the woman's soul -- predatory, feline, and unscrupulous. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Woman in her more attractive presentment, was a daughter of the poets, with an esoteric, or perhaps only a symbolic, or perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
The gentleman who has seen some of these chromos writes that the most ravishing presentment of rural life in Kansas is depicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
It might also suggest bill presentment, payment alerts, or more elaborate financial management services, again for additional fees. From Wordnik.com. [Get ready for more user-friendly bank sites—and more upsell] Reference
Here we saw that most noble and pathetic presentment of Death, grappled with, and almost conquered, in the statue of the Dying Gladiator. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
I have a return of malicious injuries which form the subject of presentment at these Assizes, in number, I understand, exceeding all former precedent. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Of course, the method of presentment must be very deftly varied, in order that the artifice may not appear; but this simple rule of three is almost always practised. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
The two women for years had called each other friend, but the Bride started back from the smiling presentment of the face now as if it had been some loathable thing. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
No previous presentment is required, nor any indictment charging the commission of a crime against the laws; but the trial must proceed on charges and specifications. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Many NGOs have called on the government to immediately present a roadmap of post-presentment review procedures and to ultimately submit the entire document for a referendum. From Wordnik.com. [Christina Holder: Zambia's Constitutional Review Process Has Thwarted Meaningful Public Participation] Reference
Considerable curiosity was excited by the presentment of these beautiful birds, which sat perfectly tame on the arm of his grace, completely hooded, and furnished with bells. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Brightly the rays of the ascending sun struck upon the silver-framed portrait on the dressing-table, upon the smiling presentment of the fatuous-faced, shallow-eyed, dead wife. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
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