Sentence examples for act lacks a from inspiring English sources

Perhaps more importantly, the Sarbanes-Oxley act lacks a "severability" clause, meaning that the entire statute is affected if one piece of it is found to be unconstitutional.All this comes at an awkward time for the PCAOB.

While regulations introduced under PREA were meant to address these concerns, the act lacks a method of enforcement.

However, several court decisions have shown that this act lacks an enforcement mechanism.

The 2-to-1 appeals court decision held that the Clean Air Act lacked an "intelligible principle" for guiding the Environmental Protection Agency's use of its regulatory power -- leaving the agency theoretically free, for example, to insist on bringing down to zero the permissible level of pollutants for which there is no known safe amount.

Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, condemned the killing, saying, "There are no words for an act lacking any humanity and which at a stroke cancels out centuries of civilization and takes us back to the dark ages of barbarity".

This act lacks teeth, Ms. Roychowdhury said.

"His act lacks the anger and outrage that often fuel Stewart's routines.

The first act lacks dramatic situations, and only in the second do we get to the raw meat: Roberta, pregnant and enraged, confronting Clyde in church; the death in the lake; the trial; the walk to the chair.

The agent's act lacks propriety, in the judgment of the spectator, if the spectator does not sympathise with the agent's performance.

The legislation, which is actually called the Full Faith and Credit Act, lacks support in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and President Barack Obama has threatened to veto it.

Like Dahl's first draft, Minchin's act lacked heart.