Sentence examples for act was extended from inspiring English sources

The act was extended to include past adoptions, as well as future ones, only at the 11th hour of its passage through parliament.

Although the act was extended in 1880 when primary education was made compulsory and in 1891 when it became free, there were often noisy struggles between churchmen and Nonconformists on the new school boards set up locally under Forster's act.

Only Britain, France and Italy are thought to have effective scrutiny.ET, the extra-territorialThe SEC's past experience of European accounting and auditing partly explains why the Sarbanes-Oxley act was extended to cover European companies listed in America and their auditors, to the annoyance of European regulators, who grumble about extra-territorial laws.

2010 (Act no. 571 of 31 May 2010) The Integration Act was extended to include labour migrants and their families plus EU migrants.

In 2012, the Obscene Publications Act was extended to include private communication between individuals.

Lending institutions again objected, and threatened to withdraw from the province if the act was extended.

In June 2009, the Tories tabled an amendment to prevent a retrospective clause of the act being extended.

A bipartisan group of senators proposed that parts of the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act be extended for three months to give Congress time to resolve "glaring omissions" in the law.

Add all that up, and a 15-minute act is extended to an hour and a half.

The Reserve Forces and Militia Act 1898 was extended to allow up to six thousand men in total to be liable for callout without proclamation, and for the period of their liability to be up to two years.

A new scene, with a drinking song for the chorus, was added to Act I, and Mařenka's Act II aria "Oh what grief!" was extended.