Sentence examples for act narrowly from inspiring English sources

After intense debate the Repeal Act narrowly passed the upper chamber, 16 15, in February; the House of Representatives, where the Republicans enjoyed a large majority, enacted the Senate bill without amendment in March.

This led him to read the Civil Rights Act narrowly.

Both were justified as defensive acts narrowly tailored to halt an imminent threat on the ground.

The Protect IP Act is narrowly crafted, with strong judicial safeguards that promote due process.

Justice Department officials said the plan interprets the Sarbanes-Oxley Act too narrowly on several fronts.

The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act was narrowly defeated recently in Congress.

Once Ingrid starts wreaking her hard-boiled havoc, vows get broken, shots get fired, people run and cry and trade punches in seedy motels — and the whiplash-inducing third act only narrowly avoids devolving into a circus itself.

Another attempt in the Racial and Religious Hatred Act was narrowly defeated in the House of Commons.

Ultimately, however, the court decided to act more narrowly, letting a lower court's overturning of the ban stand on procedural grounds.

Last November the Paycheck Fairness Act was narrowly defeated in the Senate after it passed the House of Representatives with a strong bipartisan majority.

The court could have acted more narrowly, for example, by saying that Alabama's continued problems with minority voting rights justified the law's application to Shelby County even if not elsewhere.