Sentence examples for critical provision from inspiring English sources

It is my recommendation that this critical provision be preserved in the conference".

In the weeks after the agreement, however, the administration and Smith & Wesson diverged in their interpretation of this critical provision.

In a critical provision, insurers would be prohibited from rejecting applicants based on age or health status.

It also barred them from setting limits on annual and lifetime benefits — a critical provision for cancer patients.

That case collapsed in November when a witness said she might have failed to forward a page on a critical provision of the contract to Kmart's audit department.

The general recommended that the negotiators preserve a "critical provision" in the House bill that maintains the Pentagon's control over the flow of its intelligence funds.

General Kayani said there were elements in the bill that would set back the bilateral relationship, and critical provisions were almost entirely directed against the Army.

When it passed in October 2001, moderates and civil libertarians in Congress agreed to support it only by making many critical provisions temporary.

"The problem is, at the end of the year, 16 critical provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire," Mr. Bush said.

In fact, regulators are moving forward on the wording of critical provisions, like exemptions that allow banks to hold a certain amount of securities for customers.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said many would withdraw their support if the conference committee embraced some critical provisions of the House bill, which was drafted almost exclusively by Republicans.