Sentence examples for an act that allowed from inspiring English sources

The previous parliamentary vote, in 2005, was boycotted by many Sunni Arabs, an act that allowed the insurgency to fester and fueled subsequent sectarian bloodshed.

Many feared it would soon become impossible to hold back the sea.In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.

The Assembly routinely waited for the latest market data so it could adjust its revenue estimates upward, an act that allowed the Democratic majority to justify more liberal spending.

In 1832 this company obtained an Act that allowed it to build the railway.

In 1832 the company obtained an Act that allowed it to build the railway along the new alignment.

The Hacker, who created her, ejected the grove that contained her experiments to prevent them contaminating Earth, an act that allowed part of SHODAN to survive in the grove.

In 1969, the leftist Government of Peru did a Zimbabwe, passing a Land Reform Act that allowed it to expropriate the land holdings of wealthy families and redistribute them to small farmers and laborers.

He seldom flinched from using a Preventive Detention Act that allowed him to lock up his opponents virtually at will.

The church also benefited from a 1998 legislative act that allowed dioceses to register as their property churches and other buildings that they had long used but not officially owned.

The I.R.A. announced last month that it had begun disarming, a long-awaited act that allowed Mr. Trimble to resume the operation of the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly, which he heads as first minister.

In the Republican debates, Mr. Romney had fiercely attacked a Texas Dream Act that allowed some undocumented students to pay in-state college tuition, calling it a "magnet," and he alarmed Hispanic leaders with talk of "self-deportation," which would induce illegal immigrants to leave voluntarily by making life more difficult through tougher enforcement measures.