Sentence examples for adopt the provision from inspiring English sources

Finally, I agree very strongly with all those Members who made the point, in particular with regard to Europol, that it is not enough to adopt a treaty or a declaration unless ratification and implementation in the Member States is as strong as the political will to adopt the provision in the first place.

Justice Stevens said the state's non-Hawaiian majority had adopted the provision in 1978 not to demean Native Hawaiians but to recognize and protect their special heritage.

All 17 companies have told Mr. Feinberg that they will consider adopting the provision, though none has committed to do so.

Rather than ban capital punishment, the professors said, the constitutional convention adopted the provision, to permit the Court of Appeals to review the acceptability of the death penalty measured against the shifting values of the times.

Kansas lawmakers adopted the provision allowing grand juries by petition in the late 19th century when state politicians were fighting over which towns would be named county seats and the lucrative railroad industry was blossoming.

The Delaware Chancery Court adopted the provisions in January 2010.

Once the larger Senate bill is adopted, the provisions will have to be reconciled.

The United States adopted the provisions of the accord in 1983; the discovery of Medici's warehouse, in 1995, provided the Italian government with the evidence it needed to make a case on a grand scale.

"They're creating audit committees and adopting the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley as best practices," she said of the 2002 law that imposed stricter accountability on corporate governing, though not on charities.

"In adopting the provisions in question, the Belgian State had sought to respond to a practice that it considered to be incompatible, in Belgian society, with social communication and more generally the establishment of human relations, which were indispensable for life in society," the court concluded, according to its press release.

The Senate will vote today on whether to adopt the main provisions of the House bill.