Sentence examples for act designates from inspiring English sources

The case raised difficult questions that are rooted in the immigration debate that has swept the country in recent years: for example, whether, as a person in the country illegally, Mr. Ramírez even had a right to the federal government's protection of his housing, as the Fair Housing Act designates.

The U.S. Clean Air Act designates hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) as those that "may reasonably be anticipated to be carcinogenic, mutagenic" (Clean Air Act Amendments 1990), and exhibit other adverse health effects.

The Recovery Act designated $2.4 billion for domestic manufacturing of automobile batteries and related components.

This act designated a state trunkline highway network of nearly 3000 mile.

In 1850, the legislature passed an act designating Salem the capital.

The Act designated a West Midlands Special Review Area, whose recommendations would ultimately form the West Midlands Order 1965 legislation.

(Ryan told black lawmakers on Wednesday that he supports the bill, which was written after the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the Voting Rights Act that designates which states must have voter laws cleared by the federal government).

In November 2013, in response to a lawsuit filed by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the Nuclear Energy Institute, the US court of appeals ruled that nuclear utilities may stop paying into the nuclear waste recovery fund until either the DOE follows the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which designates Yucca Mountain as the repository, or Congress changes the law.

Sixteen presidents have used the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate 157 monuments; however, no president has ever tried to revoke a designation.

Sixteen presidents have used the Antiquities Act to designate 157 monuments; however, no president has ever tried to revoke a designation.

(President Bill Clinton used the act to designate no fewer than 19 national monuments; President George W. Bush created six).