Sentence examples for act was adopted from inspiring English sources

The act was adopted after Congress passed landmark legislation in other civil rights areas.

The Railway Labor Act was adopted by Congress in 1926 with few alterations.

When the Clean Water Act was adopted in 1972, farms were largely exempted from its requirements.

Since the time the 1887 act was adopted, new forms of transport have arisen, and older ones have been improved.

The Dodd-Frank Act was adopted in 2010 to address inadequate oversight and regulation of the financial markets.

The first Nature Conservancy Act was adopted in 1909, and in 1969 a modern environmental protection act was passed.

The implementing decrees of this act were adopted five years after the law was passed.

One of the Democrats' first acts was adopting a party platform that for the first time endorsed same-sex marriage.

Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) were adopted in most African countries after 2005.

New gospel acts are adopting musical styles, and commercial images, that range from the girl-group R & B of Trin-I-Tee 5 7 to the hip-hop of the Gospel Gangstaz.

The ruling, by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal District Court in Manhattan, was the first to uphold a challenge to the surveillance sections of the act, which was adopted in October 2001 to expand the powers of the federal government in national security investigations.