Sentence examples for ground act from inspiring English sources

A man charged with killing a bystander in Columbia, S.C., has been granted immunity from prosecution after citing the state's Stand Your Ground Act.

The Keep It In The Ground Act, introduced last fall by senators Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders, would prohibit new leases on public acres.

In November, he cosponsored new Senate legislation, the Keep It in the Ground Act, that would have the federal government stop issuing leases for oil, gas, and coal extraction on public lands and in offshore areas.

Senator Merkley said he doesn't expect the Keep It In The Ground Act to pass in the United States.

The forecast led a number of America senators, including Bernie Sanders, to introduce the Keep It In The Ground Act, which would ban all new fossil fuel development on public lands and cancel non-producing leases.

Basically, as the ground shakes, the pressure can force the water between the soil particles, which reduces friction and makes the ground act less like soil and more like water.

The ground acts as the natural template for the porous arrangement generation in all the samples.

The ground acts as a heat sink/source for the excess/required heat inside a building for cooling and heating modes, respectively.

The lasers on the ground acted as a musical stave, and the lights above, suspended by a load of cranes and powered by three 120KW generators, acted as musical notes, that the cars were to drive through, just like the game Guitar Hero.

They claim the construction contravenes the Open Spaces Act and Disused Burial Grounds Act, and that the last breach is a criminal offence.

Lawyers for the Foreign Office tried to resist his claim on the grounds "act of state doctrine", arguing that the UK courts could not inquire into what happened because it also involved agents from a foreign state, namely the US.