He had a provision in his contract that allowed him to leave Iraq in case of hostilities.
He also has a provision for a $150,000 bonus for being division series M.V.P., but no one selects a division series M.V.P. Too bad Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, didn't think of the Hank Aaron award, given to the player voted the best overall hitter in each league.
He noted that the budget has a provision for first-time investors wherein if 50,000 rupees, or about $1,000, is invested, half of that would be tax-free but locked in for a period of three years.
The village already has a provision for a $250 fine.
Luckily, Minnesota's electoral law has a provision for ties.
Mr. Brown acknowledged in a Boston Globe article that he has used a provision of President Obama's health care law to cover his 23-year-old daughter, even though he voted against the bill shortly after winning the 2010 special election for the Senate.
Like Mr Chávez and Argentina's Cristina Fernández, he has abused a provision, intended for national emergencies, in which all television and radio stations are required to carry his broadcasts no fewer than 1,365 of them between January 2007 and August 2012, according to Fundamedios, a media body.
Moreover, he said, most condominiums have a provision in their bylaws that specifically permits unit owners to vote "in person or by proxy".
But if the law requires a bond, he said, it must have a provision to set that aside for indigent groups or have an appeals process.
