Sentence examples for flawed provision from inspiring English sources

President Clinton vetoed a bill renewing the authority of the nation's intelligence agencies today because it contained what he called a "badly flawed provision" that would make it a crime for a government official to disclose classified information.

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Apparently, the EU doesn't believe that this flawed provision in U.S. law is sufficient.

Fifteen congressional Democrats signed a dissent, arguing that the vague definition of manufacturing was a "deeply flawed provision that provides special-interest benefits to large architectural and engineering companies like Bechtel and Halliburton".

He said: "The rushed and flawed provisions in this bill will make things much worse for our schools and our children in the coming months".

The White House has criticized the Kyoto treaty as "fatally flawed," saying its provisions are unfair to the United States.

There is a third, more sensible position: the rest of the act stands because courts generally avoid striking down entire laws when one provision is flawed and Congress quite likely would have enacted the reform's other elements without the mandate.

Having recognized that the old agreement was fatally flawed — it had no provisions for unitary foreign or tax policies, or for a national defense — the delegates set about creating a four-and-a-half-thousand-word lattice of compromises and counterbalances that has, with the notable exception of the years 1861 through 1865, cemented the union of the United States.

Unfortunately, the earmark provision is heavily flawed.

The coastal provision, meanwhile, is flawed by loose language that could actually allow states to build the kind of infrastructure projects like roads and port facilities that ruined the coastlines in the first place.

The court can only uphold the appeal if it finds that the home secretary's grounds for making an order or any of its provisions are "obviously flawed".