Sentence examples for act reversing from inspiring English sources

In August, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said it lacked the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, reversing the stance of the Clinton administration.

Mr. Romney has proposed excluding greenhouse gases from the Clean Air Act, reversing new mercury standards for coal and slowing the advent of automobile fuel efficiency standards, and he could be expected to use his executive and regulatory powers to make policy adjustments.

In January, Congress passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, reversing a 2007 Supreme Court decision and opening employers to pay-discrimination lawsuits over practices they may have ended decades before.

It means that the Commons cannot, under the Parliament Act, reverse a defeat in the upper house.

Some distinct criminal activity had to be proved.The 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act reversed this, making it a crime to offer such groups any "material" support.

Please note that we have swapped the order of the first and second act, reversed the order of every scene in each act, and heavily implied that the entirety of the play was a dream sequence.

Legislation such as the Clean Water Act reversed the decline of thousands of waterways throughout the country.

The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act reverses the Library of Congress's 2012 decision, but it is only a temporary solution.

The Voting Rights Act reversed the practice of breaking up communities of interest, and pushed the system in the opposite direction.

This act reversed the "spoils system" where office seekers paid or gave political service in order to obtain or keep federally appointed positions.

The Act reversed the U.S. Supreme Court's 1976 ruling in United States v. Miller, where the Court found that bank customers had no legal right to privacy in financial information held by financial institutions.