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The phrase "a sunset provision" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or policy contexts to refer to a clause that sets an expiration date for a law or regulation unless it is renewed or extended.
Example: "The new environmental regulations include a sunset provision that will automatically repeal the rules in five years unless Congress votes to extend them."
Alternatives: "expiration clause" or "termination provision".
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Alternatively, why not require a sunset provision on dual-class shares?
To be sure, there's a sunset provision for those contracts that specifically involve "hosting the Nato and G8 summits".
In Arizona, voters rejected an industry-sponsored "reform" initiative that would have done away with a sunset provision on payday lending in the current law.
Recognizing that some kind of legislation was going to pass, the House libertarian caucus settled on a mediating device — a "sunset" provision.
Also, an executive nomination is like a law that has a sunset provision: the appointment expires automatically when the Presidency changes hands.
And he said he disagreed with Ms. Quinn's call to add a sunset provision to a plan to evaluate teachers partly using test scores.
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To address this issue and preclude that possibility, in the 111th Congress John Linder introduced a contingent sunset provision in H.R. 25.
In a statement, Mr. Bloomberg praised the commissioner for rejecting a so-called sunset provision that would have let the evaluation system expire after a few years.
Seeking to reassure wavering lawmakers, the bill has a five-year sunset provision.
The city blames the union, asserting that the union wanted a two-year "sunset" provision that would render the evaluation provision inoperative in 2015, making it extremely difficult to dismiss ineffective teachers.
The package was reached after agreement that most of the expanded wiretap authorities would expire at the end of 2003, a so-called sunset provision, unless Congress explicitly renewed them.
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