Sentence examples for act to permit from inspiring English sources

An act to permit the headscarf in universities was overturned by the constitutional court.

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which amended the prohibition-based Volstead Act to permit the manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beer and wines.

In 2006, the Supreme Court relied on the act to permit a New Mexico church to use the hallucinogen hoasca, or ayahuasca, for sacramental purposes.

First, my hope is that the Congress will soon act to permit unrestricted travel between the United States and Cuba, establish open trading relationships, and repeal the embargo.

The petition argued that the review court had misinterpreted the USA Patriot Act to permit foreign intelligence wiretaps to be used for law enforcement purposes.

In 1939, as Europe plunged into war, Roosevelt convened a special session of Congress, urging revision of the Neutrality Act to permit arms sales to Britain and France.

Now, 45 years later, the California Legislature has acted to permit the Monroe estate to reap those benefits.

[Page C8.] Stones Permit Online Distribution Starting today, subscribers to the RealNetworks Rhapsody music service will be able to listen to streaming versions of more than 500 songs by the Rolling Stones, one of the last big-name rock acts to permit its music to be distributed digitally.

When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Roosevelt called Congress into special session to revise the neutrality acts to permit belligerents i.e., Britain and France to buy American arms on a "cash-and-carry" basis; over the objections of isolationists, the cash-and-carry policy was enacted.

Perhaps most importantly, for surveillance hawks, USA Freedom Act appears to close certain gaps that have arisen in the NSA's data collection USA Freedom Act appears to permit the collection smart phone records that is, records of communication that is sent across the Internet, as well as phone calls facilitated by telecoms providers.

An amendment to India's Child Labour Prohibition Act seeks to permit children under 14 to work in "family enterprises", a euphemism for industries such as carpet-weaving, beedi (cigarette) rolling and gem-polishing.