Sentence examples for get a provision from inspiring English sources

When Congress revised the federal law governing the F.D.A. in 2007, drug companies wanted, but did not get, a provision shielding them from this sort of lawsuit.

Mr. Murdoch's lobbyists were also able to get a provision in the bill requiring the F.C.C. to review the cap periodically.

Also troubling, in that regard, was the failure this week of the Democrats in the Senate to get a provision allowing the military to detain people indefinitely out of the Defense Authorization Act.

While I certainly didn't get everything that I wanted, I did get a provision included in the final bill that will allow a small group of Americans to convert their tax-excluded employer subsidies into vouchers that they can use to choose their own plans on the new health insurance exchanges.

Activists rejoiced when they got a provision requiring firms to publish payments per project included in the ragbag Dodd-Frank corporate-reform act in 2010.

Earlier this year, Congresswoman Sue W. Kelly, a Republican whose district includes New Castle, got a provision in the federal appropriations bill to include the $300,000 reimbursement to the local police.

With the case now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Mr. Lewis succeeded in getting a provision into the 2004 defense appropriations bill that could resolve the dispute by trading the acre around the cross for land owned by a private veterans group in Barstow, Calif.

In 2010, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (D) got a provision requiring securities to be randomly assigned to raters included in the version of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill the Senate passed.

Labor unions tried unsuccessfully to get a similar provision inserted into the House bill.

The administraiton is still trying to get a compensation provision into the bill.

"You can't just roll into a member of Congress, buy a couple of steaks, to get a tax provision," Feehery told me in a phone interview.