After three hours of heated debate the C. controversial bill was passed by a narrow majority.

经过三个小时的激烈辩论，这一有争议的法案以勉强多数通过了。

India's lower house of parliament has passed a controversial bill which will pave the way for foreign companies to build nuclear power plants in India.

印度议会下院通过了一项有争议的法案，将为外国公司在印度建造核电站铺平道路。

That the most controversial bill before parliament is being fine-tuned at meetings chaired by Mr Berlusconi's trial lawyer, for example, no longer even merits comment.

比如最具争议的法案提交贝卢斯科尼先生的辩护律师主持的国会会议进行微调，甚至不再是值得评论。

They can see themselves going out on a limb, voting for a very controversial energy bill.

他们会发现自己由于投票赞成一个有争议的能源法案而陷入困境。

When he voted in favour of a controversial jobs bill in February the tea-partiers who had helped to elect him accused him of betrayal.

今年二月，他投票支持了一项富有争议的就业议案，曾经拥护他的茶党人士因此指责他背叛。

Since 2009 Congress has passed a huge stimulus and the health-care bill, both controversial yet also evidence that the legislature can get things done.

从2009年至今美国国会通过了一项庞大的经济刺激计划和医疗保障法案，两者都充满争议，但也证明了通过立法可以解决问题。

On May 20th the Senate passed its bill, which includes a controversial amendment requiring banks to spin off their derivatives businesses; the House bill does not contain that measure.

5月20日，参议院提出的金融监管法案获得通过，其中包括一项有争议的修正案，要求银行应与其衍生品业务相分离；但众议院的法案中并无此条款。

The bill is particularly controversial because it does not prohibit covert surveillance of journalists and because it imposes only a few restrictions on covert surveillance of lawyers.

该法案明显会引起争论，因为它并不禁止对记者的隐蔽监控，而对律师的隐蔽调查也只有很少一些条款限制。

This month, the Senate began consideration of a bill that would block the closure of the controversial facility as will as civilian trials for its detainees.

本月，参议院开始考虑一份议案，这份议案不仅可能阻止关闭备受争议的关塔那摩监狱，而且也会阻止关押民事案件中的囚犯。

No part of the stimulus bill has been more controversial than the attempt to expand unemployment insurance.

整个刺激计划中最具争议的莫过于扩大失业保险范围的条款。

Last year Warren Buffett and Bill Gates visited Beijing for what they thought would be the least controversial of reasons.

去年，沃伦·巴菲特和比尔·盖茨造访北京，他们本以为此行绝对不会引发争议。

He worries that the answer, all too often, is Barack Obama's controversial new health-care reform bill, enacted back in March.

他所担心的这个问题的答案就是，奥巴马那自相矛盾的新医疗保障改革法案，会退回到3月份时候的情形。

Racial profiling or good police work, that's the basic debate in Arizona over controversial new immigration bill, a protest caravan on the way to Phoenix from L.

到底是歧视性种族评判还是良好的警察事务，这是针对亚利桑那州有争议的新移民法案最基本的辩论。

Australia's lower house of parliament has narrowly passed a bill for a controversial carbon tax.

澳大利亚议会众议院勉强通过一项颇具争议的烟尘排放税。

She aroused general admiration by her thirty-minute exposition, without a note, of what was a controversial and complex Bill.

她不用稿子，花了三十分钟时间，讲解了一项可以引起论战的，不容易说清楚的议案。这篇演说赢得了一致好评。