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Example sentences for "adverse report"

  • The suffragists demanded a hearing but the House committee refused it and made an adverse report on the resolution to ratify.

  • The House rejected the committee's adverse report by a viva voce vote and the next day passed the bill without further debate.

  • The Judiciary Committee reported the bill favorably but six out of fifteen members signed an adverse report.

  • A magnificent argument in behalf of the petitions was made by Mr. Curtis, and the discussion lasted several days; but the committee handed in an adverse report, which was sustained by a large majority of the convention.

  • When the judiciary committee made its adverse report[57] which was merely that Congress had not the power to act, most of the friends were not discouraged but believed another committee would decide differently.

  • As Mr. Greeley was about to make an adverse report, his anger and embarrassment, as well as the amusement of the audience, may be imagined.

  • Adverse Report on the admission of steam railways within the Park.

  • Adverse Report on the admission of electric railways within the Park.

  • Adverse Report on Segregation project and change of boundaries.

  • This gave Susan and Mrs. Stanton a trump card to play, should Horace Greeley present an adverse report as they were informed he would do.

  • While he gave women every opportunity to be heard, at the same time he arranged for the defeat of woman suffrage by appointing men to consider the subject who were definitely opposed, and they submitted an adverse report.

  • The committee made an adverse report, which was discussed by the convention on the evenings of August 8 and 15, with the Assembly Chamber crowded at each session.

  • Later Mr. Goodnight submitted an adverse report for a majority of the committee.

  • Fair does not appear on either document, but he had signed an adverse report in 1882.

  • She it was who kept with one other [Mrs. Roessing] the lonely vigil the night of June 6 at the door of the Republican Resolutions Committee while it debated for hours its sub-committee's adverse report on the suffrage plank.

  • So I ask that you will this time make a report to the House of Representatives and if you do not believe that we are right, for Heaven's sake make an adverse report.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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