Sentence examples for kept the provision from inspiring English sources

Under Nafta, the United States was supposed to give broad access to Mexican trucks in 1995, but President Bill Clinton, under heavy pressure from his union allies, kept the provision from taking effect, saying Mexico had to do more to address safety problems first.

But opposition from lawmakers in large states such as California and New York have kept the provision mostly intact.

The unions kept the provisions out of the contract.

Senate Democrats — and some Republicans — said they would fight to keep the provision in any final bill to reauthorize and expand the landmark 1994 anti-domestic violence law.

The bill, introduced in January, also would keep the provision allowing those age 26 and under to stay on their parents' health insurance.

We continually keep the provision of these service centres under review to provide high quality and cost competitive support functions," said a spokesman.

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But the bill is unlikely to be approved in the State Senate, whose leaders want to keep the provision, called "vacancy decontrol," which allows property owners to eliminate rent regulations on some vacant apartments when their rents reach $2,000 a month.

And some House Democrats suggest that home builders and their lobbyists will face an uphill battle in trying to keep the provision when the Senate bill is reconciled with a rival tax package that was approved last week by the House Ways and Means Committee.

A late 2010 Marist poll determined that 68% of Americans wanted to keep the provision that allowed children to stay on their parents' healthcare plan until they were 26 years-old.

Five of the anti-abortion Democrats in the House, including Representatives Jim Langevin of Rhode Island and Henry Cuellar of Texas, wrote to leaders of the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday advocating that the committee keep the provision in the bill on the grounds that "it will help reduce the need for abortion, the number of unintended pregnancies, and the spread of H.I.V./AIDS".