Sentence examples for a far-reaching provision from inspiring English sources

But the Wall Street reform legislation signed into law by President Obama includes a far-reaching provision designed to reduce the horrific violence.

Another potentially far-reaching provision affects what happens if a company like Boeing requests changes in its "procedures manual," which sets out whether it is the FAA or the private firm that approves "technical data" and whether airworthiness standards are being met.

In addition to recommendations concerning information and education, the programme includes a number of far-reaching provisions.

One of the most far-reaching provisions is a section that bars federal judges from granting a habeas petition unless the state court decision that is being challenged "was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States".

One of its most far-reaching provisions would require that all air cargo on passenger jets be inspected for explosives; now only high-risk shipments are inspected.

But gun control advocates view the law as one of their worst setbacks in decades, though some of its most far-reaching provisions were removed during negotiations with the House.

Two of its most far-reaching provisions were the requirement that every diocese provide for the proper education of its future clergy in Catholic seminaries and the requirement that the clergy, and especially the bishops, give more attention to the task of preaching.

As Stewart describes it, the committee "hijacked" and remade the Constitution, altering critical agreements the Convention delegates had already made, enhancing the powers of the states at the expense of the national government, and adding several far-reaching provisions that the Convention had never discussed.

Fuel Additive Vote to strike a provision from a far-reaching energy bill that would provide liability protection for producers of MTBE, a gasoline additive blamed in groundwater pollution nationwide.

It is a far-reaching decision.

Constantine's conversion to Christianity had a far-reaching effect.