Sentence examples for measures acts from inspiring English sources

Weights and measures acts mean we trust what we buy.

"Of any free time you have, I would say 50 percent, maybe even more," is spent on fund-raising, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa told the New Yorker recently in a scathing portrait of an overstressed and utterly ineffective legislative body, one that measures acts of real significance in the single digits per term.

Trudeau responded by invoking the War Measures Act.

The Weights and Measures Act of 1824 sought to clear away some of the medieval tangle.

Mr. Trudeau sent army troops to Quebec and suspended civil liberties there under Canada's War Measures Act.

Quebec's government asked for federal intervention, prompting enactment of the War Measures Act, which suspended the usual civil liberties.

Joseph was accused of breaching the Fifa World Cup Special Measures Act by walking into an area without being in possession of the necessary accreditation.

The Weights and Measures Act of 1824 and the Act of 1878 established the British Imperial System on the basis of precise definitions of selected existing units.

At the peak of the crisis, on Oct. 16, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, an unprecedented step in peacetime.

These measures acted as a strong brake on the housing market.The State Council called for the construction of government-subsidised housing to be stepped up.

I'd grown up on tales of Pierre Trudeau's War Measures Act, a period of Canadian law when the intelligence services dirty-tricked their way through radical groups with total, lawless impunity.