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first reading

NOUN
  1. the first presentation of a bill in a legislature

How To Use first reading In A Sentence

  • May set the deadline the day after securing a formal first reading for the coalition government 's bill. Computing
  • The first reading of almost any survey job should be a backsight onto a fixed point of reference, usually a benchmark of some sort.
  • On first reading one may not understand all the meanings within a poem, but one can appreciate its rhythms and imagery.
  • At first reading, its repeated lines suggest some variation on a pantoum or villanelle. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It may be difficult to fully grasp at first reading.
  • I do know, however, that lots of people, including a lot of men, came away from the movie rhapsodizing about the first reading of it.
  • I rise to speak to the first reading of the ‘Education Amendment Bill ’, also mistitled the Education (Establishment of Universities) Amendment Bill.
  • Those who have highly dispraised it are Dilke, Richards (at first reading), Landor, L. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
  • Mr Robson's bill passed its first reading in Parliament 78 votes to 41.
  • The only question New Zealand First really wants to ask the Minister is why he came to the House for the first reading with such a dog of a bill.
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