Example sentences for: pro-environment

How can you use “pro-environment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • * Pedant's Corner : the erroneous 85 to 66 percent calculations were almost certainly arrived at by averaging the yearly LCV scores; but LCV calculates a legislator's lifetime score by adding up all his pro-environment votes and dividing that number by the total number of LCV-scored votes that took place while he was in Congress.

  • Twelve additional "anti-environment" votes Chatterbox would call "Tennessee penumbra votes," i.e., votes in which powerful Tennessee interests might be harmed indirectly by a pro-environment vote.

  • Because of a typo on the LCV scorecard for Bradley, Chatterbox momentarily thought Gore had been rooked; dividing Bradley's lifetime total of 172 pro-environment votes by 214, which the scorecard presents as the total number of LCV-scored votes that took place during Bradley's years in Congress, Chatterbox got not 84 percent but 80 percent .

  • Report cards aren't new--they're used by the Christian Coalition and other interest groups to reduce complicated issues so that each politician can be labeled "pro-abortion" or "pro-environment."

  • Internet politics are basically soft libertarian--liberal on social issues, anti-tax, and anti-regulation (but pro-environment and pro-gun control).


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