1.   And because some Georgia legislators made no secret of the fact that the mandated minute could be used for praying.

2.   But Hein said state legislators should make it easier for communities to raise gasoline or sales taxes to pay for road improvements.

3.   But most people think Perry is unlikely to do so unless legislators make tremendous strides on an issue that made little progress during the past six months.

4.   But the most critical difference legislators can make is through further improvements to the public education system, including incentives for young people to remain in school.

5.   Cellucci and Republican legislators have made clear their willingness to capitalize on the public pressure that the ballot question campaign will likely generate for the tax cut.

6.   Good legislators generally make bad presidential candidates, and politicians who try to ignore this rule have a way of winding up unemployed.

7.   In both chambers, legislators made pleas for more aid for hard-pressed farmers.

8.   In their debates and public statements, the legislators made clear that they were making the change because they wanted city police to get higher salaries.

9.   Investors expect Brazilian legislators to make it easier for the government to fire public workers and trim the public deficit.

10.   It gained political cachet because by rearranging the governmental system it seemed to solve painful budget problems without requiring legislators to actually make the decisions themselves.