Sentence examples for act curtailed from inspiring English sources

The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act curtailed the powers of the education secretary, but DeVos could tap into billions of Title I funding to bankroll a vouchers scheme, aggressively use the bully pulpit and craft devastating legislation that would likely pass the Republican-controlled Congress.

The act curtails a wide range of activities -- from street demonstrations and ticket scalping to parking in "clearways" and flying in closed airspace -- for the duration of the Games.

Last summer, Representative Cresent Hardy, a Nevada Republican, offered an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have sabotaged the Antiquities Act, curtailing a President's ability to create national monuments.

The justice secretary is expected to announce that a future, Conservative majority administration would repeal the Human Rights Act, curtail the influence of the European court of human rights and anoint the UK's supreme court as the country's supreme legal authority.

She bunched her political messages near the beginning of her set: a jazz waltz called "Ugly Man," about President Bush; "Little Mysteries," a Memphis soul-styled song about the disputed 2000 election and the death in an airplane crash of Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota; and "Tell Somebody," about the Patriot Act curtailing freedom of speech.

Mundine said growing up under the Aboriginal Welfare Act had curtailed his freedom, which "was brought about by bigotry".

The passing of the USA Freedom Act last week curtailed so-called "section 215" bulk collection of phone record metadata – information about who called whom, and timings, but not the content of conversations.

Robin Peterson and Faf du Plessis's brief rebuilding act was curtailed as Anderson vindicated Cook's decision to extend his spell into a seventh over by removing Peterson lbw with a full, straight ball.

David Cameron has given Michael Gove the task of scrapping the Human Rights Act and curtailing the role of the European court of human rights.

The Conservatives were elected on a manifesto commitment to "scrap the Human Rights Act and curtail the role of the European court of human rights".

The Tory manifesto outlined a clear commitment to scrap the 1998 Human Rights Act and curtail the role of the European court of human rights.