Sentence examples for conflicting provisions from inspiring English sources

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Conflicting provisions of those bills, however, have not yet been reconciled.

Comparing the legislature to the "framers of the Constitution," Mr. Bush's lawyers wrote, "Surely the legislature would not have enacted two conflicting provisions at the same time".

But in fact the Florida court applied garden variety principles of statutory interpretation to resolve ambiguities and reconcile conflicting provisions within the Florida Election Code.

Drummond said Google required government agencies conducting criminal investigations to use a search warrant to access private content stored in a Google account because the fourth amendment "overrides conflicting provisions in ECPA".

The brief for Mr. Gore argues that the Florida court "applied garden-variety principles of statutory interpretation to resolve ambiguities and reconcile conflicting provisions within the Florida Election Code".

Defaults were worked out in the light of conflicting provisions of contract law and rules put out by government agencies, says Helena Huang, a bankruptcy lawyer for Kirkland & Ellis.

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The act of interpreting and reconciling ambiguous or apparently conflicting statutory provisions is an exercise with which this court is thoroughly familiar and has never been regarded as the "making" of law exceeding the bounds of the judicial role.... Indeed, the Florida legislature has itself plainly acquiesced in state judicial resolution of election disputes in presidential elections.

But an ethics watchdog group, the Congressional Accountability Project, points to conflicting disclosure provisions in House rules and suggests the committee's change may be timed to avoid issuing a potentially embarrassing report in the event no charges result in the case of Representative Bud Shuster, the powerful Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman.

Regulations become law in all member states the moment they come into force, without the requirement for any implementing measures, and automatically override conflicting domestic provisions.

The group said the changes conflicted with provisions of the Clean Water Act that bar dumping waste in streams, rivers and lakes.

The power to invalidate legislation conflicting with the provisions of a rigid constitution has been most frequently, though not invariably, entrusted to the judiciary.

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