Sentence examples for act of eliminating from inspiring English sources

Defecation, also called bowel movement, the act of eliminating solid or semisolid waste materials (feces) from the digestive tract.

But the very act of eliminating the tax and then restoring it in 2007 has stunned and angered the economic conservatives who would normally be the president's natural allies on the bill.

(The Paycheck Fairness Act is a key part of eliminating unfair pay disparities).

Since then she has spoken out for the passage of the of SAFER act to eliminate the backlog of untested DNA evidence and has become a vocal advocate for using DNA evidence to solve rape cases.

The 1844 Counties (Detached Parts) Act began the processing of eliminating these, but the process was not completed until 1966, when Dudley was absorbed into Staffordshire.

As President Donald Trump's Justice Department prepares to challenge the Affordable Care Act (with the goal of eliminating protections for people with pre-existing conditions), being depressed or suicidal is going to get even tougher for the millions of middle- and working-class Americans who depend on subsidized treatment to keep them alive.

As part of the civil rights movement, the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 eliminated racial criteria and replaced country-by-country quotas with a system that awarded green cards based largely on family or employer sponsorship.

Technically, the Budget Control Act of 2011 eliminated subsidized Stafford loans to graduate and professional students "for any period of instruction beginning on or after July 1 , 2012" but the U.S. Department of Education is interpreting this as applying to any loans first disbursed on or after July 1 , 2012

The Coinage Act of 1873 eliminated the standard silver dollar.

The Citizenship Act of 2003 eliminated discrimination in the transfer of citizenship to children of marriages between Sri Lankan women and non-citizen male spouses.

So in 2007, as the intelligence chief, he lobbied Congress for revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to eliminate some of the most burdensome rules on the N.S.A., including that it obtain a warrant when spying on two foreigners abroad simply because they were using a wired connection that flowed through a computer server or switch inside the United States.