Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he did not have enough votes to force final consideration of the bill.

A commission of disinterested outsiders, he says, might have forced consideration of the 25th Amendment while Mr. Reagan was in surgery and would have made a recommendation afterward.

They force consideration of the marginal relationship between the variables where this might be important.

The potential capital-gains liability has forced consideration of revised strategies, including one in which the authority would buy stock of the Long Island Lighting Company to gain control of selected assets.

The groups said they will sue to force consideration of other approaches than rebuilding.

As in other projects, on-shore sand availability was limited, forcing consideration of more expensive offshore sources.

Today, House Republicans defeated an effort to bring up the bill and are forcing consideration of a more complicated and controversial bill.

His objective is to force consideration of a far more fundamental and thorny problem, the relationship between national identity and the state in the German context.

Still, even critics agree that the emergence of cyberspace is forcing the deepest and most critical consideration in years of law in general.

A discharge petition signed by 218 members (or more) from any party is the only way to force consideration of a bill that does not have the support of the Speaker.