Sentence examples for enforceable provisions from inspiring English sources

He failed to persuade Congress to renew the powers in his second term, when he was defeated by House Democrats and by organized labor, which wanted enforceable provisions protecting workers' rights and environmental standards.

And Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the House minority leader, said most House Democrats were adamant that any legislation contain tough language to ensure enforceable provisions protecting workers rights and environmental standards.

The PTA depth index calculation follows Mulabdic et al. (2017): based on the content of the trade agreements database, we count the number of legally enforceable provisions covered by each agreement and normalize it between 0 and 1. Fixed-effect dummies are used to capture all sources of unobserved heterogeneity that are constant for each period of time, individual, and sector.

However, these declarations were generally considered "mere admonitions to state legislatures", rather than enforceable provisions.

Among these: Balanced Trade, reciprocity, stop currency manipulation, allow "Buy America" procurement, enforceable provisions, and more.

And it will have strong, enforceable provisions that uphold the rights of workers, prohibit forced labor, and protect our forests and oceans.

Treasury Secretary Lew, a very smart, compassionate guy with whom I'm proud to have worked, is quoted in the piece saying: "...an enforceable provision on currency could have a negative impact on our ability to protect American workers and firms and set back our international efforts".

The TPP is packed with fully-enforceable provisions that I'm confident will be effective new tools to curb illegal logging, combat illegal fishing, and protect iconic species like the rhino and the lesser-known -- but highly-trafficked -- pangolin.

For example, the bill stipulates that trade agreements must include legally binding and enforceable environmental provisions that require countries to implement and enforce their own environmental laws in addition to obligations under multilateral environmental agreements.

The kid gave a harangue in the form of a question: he vehemently opposed Mr Obama's support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Mr Obama gave his standard response, that NAFTA needs to be completely revamped to include enforceable labour provisions.

But serious questions remain as to how enforceable those provisions will be.