Sentence examples for invoke the provisions from inspiring English sources

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*What plans will Mr. Bartlet work out with his vice president to invoke the provisions of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, which allows a president to transfer executive power to his vice president temporarily in the event of disability?

The Capobiancos argued that it takes more than mere biology to invoke the provisions of the ICWA, and under South Carolina law, a father must reside with the mother for the six-month period preceding the birth of the child and to contribute to pregnancy-related expenses in order to have paternity rights.

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Did he invoke the provision to stop publication?

If Commissioner Bud Selig thought there was a chance the union would invoke the provision, he might push his negotiators to reach an agreement sooner rather than later.

Mr. Zimmerman's defense did not invoke the provision, arguing instead that he could not have retreated from the fight on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, because Mr. Martin had pinned him to the ground and was hitting him.

In May 2010 the HFEA reviewed developments in the science and, in collaboration with the Newcastle clinician-scientists, made a request to the Government to invoke the provision for such Regulations to be debated.

Invoking the provisions of a seldom-used Senate resolution, Mr. Graham said he asked the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, and the top Democrat on the committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, to start a process that permits the declassification of information if the Senate voted to release it -- even over the objections of the administration.

But would the union actually consider invoking the provision?

Mr. Obama's statement largely dismissing the possibility of invoking the provision may have had a strategic element to it.

Between 1992 and 1995, when the law was suspended by a lower court, the police invoked the provision to arrest 42,000 people.

nato, for the first time ever, invoked the provision of its charter declaring an attack against one to be an attack against all.

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