Sample Sentences forlogrolling (auto-selected)
logrolling as in: legislative logrolling
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Sectionalism, logrolling and a series of near-fanatical movements ... plagued Senate deliberations on domestic economic issues. (source)logrolling = trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
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He did not desire to be caught in any of the logrolling factions, though for Terry Wickett, still in France, and for Terry's rough compulsion to honesty he was sometimes lonely. (source)
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It is impossible to imagine the austere Puritan divines of Massachusetts inventing such verbs as /to cowhide/ and /to logroll/, or such adjectives as /no-account/ and /stumped/, or such adverbs as /no-how/ and [Pg045] /lickety-split/, or such substantives as /bull-frog/, /hog-wallow/ and /hoe-cake/; but under their eyes there arose a contumacious proletariat which was quite capable of the business, and very eager for it.† (source)
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Voters disparage legislative logrolling, but all legislators do it.†
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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"AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THE LOGROLLING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO, DO YOU?" he asked.
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LOGROLLING = a lumberjack sport that is generally spelled as two words
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