Sentence examples for before the provisions from inspiring English sources
If it passes, a similar bill would have to also pass the House before the provisions would become law once more.
According to Strata Decision Technology, an analytics firm, many hospital groups saw what was coming and started to cut their costs well before the provisions of Obamacare started to bite.
Because there is little time left before the provisions expire, it is likely that the Senate will approve the House's bill — putting off a larger debate over the provisions until later in the year.
Congress sent the bill to the president with only hours to go on Thursday before the provisions expired at midnight.
The need for a husband's consent before the provision of contraception.
The decision, one day before the provision was to take effect, prevented a major disruption of abortion clinics in Texas.
The justices will also consider whether legal immigrants can be removed automatically for offenses committed before the provision became law.
"Added benefit," quipped Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the bipartisan group, shortly before the provision was adopted through a voice vote.
It pointed out that the plaintiffs have filed suit "four years before the provision they challenge takes effect, demonstrate no current injury, and merely speculate whether the law will harm them once it is in force".
While daily absences by Hispanic students ranged as high as 5,143, or 15 percent of the Hispanic student population, they had dropped to 1,230 the day before the provision was blocked, said a spokeswoman for the state Department of Education (on a normal day, she said, around 1,000 absences can be expected).
Coming a day before the provision was to take effect, the judge's rejection of the hospital-privileges rule was an enormous victory for women and an important vindication for principled defenders of reproductive rights, including Wendy Davis, the Democratic state senator who is now running for governor.
