Sentence examples for act restricted from inspiring English sources

In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act restricted their immigration to all but a few special cases.

He attempted to burn incense in the Temple, an act restricted to priests.

The Dodd-Frank act restricted credit-card penalties and overdraft fees, and proposed a cap on the amount banks can charge retailers for debit-card transactions.

Regulations imposed by Congress last year in the Safe Explosives Act restricted several chemicals used in high-power rocketry, including a propellant known as APCP and a compound known as black powder.

The 1963 Clean Air Act and 1972 Clean Water Act restricted the use of PCBs and DDT in the United States, and some studies have reported declines of contaminants in marine predators that live in estuaries and coastal areas near shore.

The Act restricted the activities that were allowed to take place on a Sunday, and prohibited any meetings of people outside their own parishes on Sunday.

His Lobbying Act restricts the activities of charities and trade unions but imposes no meaningful restraint on corporations.

At the federal level, wording introduced into the Affordable Care Act restricts collection of data on guns in the home.

The passage in 1881 of Gladstone's Land Act, restricting the privileges of landlords, was a victory for the league.

The rules, under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, restrict ship traffic in the 842-square-mile parcel of Massachusetts Bay and the North Atlantic.

Before he became Republican leader, Mr. McConnell was perhaps best known for his longtime battle against what became known as the McCain-Feingold law, the act restricting campaign spending.