Sentence examples for act specifies from inspiring English sources

The federal Marriage Act specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman, and the Family Law Act regulates issues such as divorce.

The 1985 Housing Act specifies minimum space standards but a tribunal case in April this year threw local authorities into confusion.

The disability act specifies the role of the NEC in ensuring that polling stations are accessible and everyone can vote confidentially.

But here's the reframing: The Dodd-Frank Act specifies that the F.D.I.C. will be paid back through "assessments" on financial companies.

Ginsburg notes that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act specifies that there has to be a substantial burden on a person's religious freedom for this discussion to even begin, not just any one.

Josh Kauffman, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Transportation, says the request will most likely be denied because the state's Roadside Memorial Act specifies that only people who lost relatives in highway crashes may request memorials.

The court ruled that the Wire Act specified only bets on sports, and "does not prohibit non-sports internet gambling".

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But the introduction of the Children's Act specified that parents were allowed to smack their offspring without causing the "reddening of the skin" and left decisions to social workers over whether or not parents had overstepped the mark.

The preamble to the act specified three purposes: to furnish "an elastic currency," to provide a market for commercial paper so that banks would have more liquidity, and to improve supervision of banks.

One of the laws, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, specified a broad range of offenses for which immigrants would be ineligible to seek a waiver of deportation, a discretionary form of administrative relief that had frequently been granted to deportable aliens with family ties in this country or with a minor offense marring an otherwise good record.