Sentence examples for law allocates from inspiring English sources

The centrist movement backing the current prime minister, Mario Monti, is a possible ally, but even together they might not prevail in the Senate because the electoral law allocates seats based on regional votes.

As for the Small Business Administration, the law allocates an additional, one-time $730 million infusion for the agency (which encourages bank lending by subsidizing small-business loans), on top of its $570 million operating budget last year.

In 2009 parliament passed a law allocating 64 seats out of 518 in the People's Assembly to women.

The new electoral law allocated 18 seats to Tunisians abroad, out of 217, on a basis of one seat for 40,000 electors, both at home and abroad.

After the 2000 presidential election debacle, involving "hanging chads" on paper ballots in Florida, Congress passed a law allocating more than $2 billion to the states to replace obsolete voting equipment.

Six states have enacted laws allocating funding for services designed to discourage women from having abortions.

National laws allocate to bodies and individuals (duty holders) high level management functions with responsibilities (duties of care) which are owed to the particular classes of people for whose benefit the duties were created (rights holders).

Texas has an unusual but not unique law that allocates 75% of places at the university to the best performing students in each state-run school.

Last year, Egypt's Parliament passed a law that allocates 64 seats in the lower house to women and more than 12 percent of seats in an expanded Parliament following the November elections.

A booming real estate market, combined with a 120-year-old state law that allocates a fixed portion of local taxes to libraries, has created a surplus that has reached into the millions of dollars for some libraries in towns on the Jersey Shore.

The historic financial-reform bill signed into law this summer allocates unprecedented powers to the government agency that regulates the nation's banks.