Sentence examples for minor provision from inspiring English sources

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Governor Paterson's staff has problems with a minor provision of the bill that deals with how pregnant women are transported to the hospital.

She made a point, too, of criticizing as excessive a minor provision — resisted by the industry — of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation.

Then I asked about a minor provision in an ancient piece of legislation, and his command of the provision and how it got there was jaw-droppingly impressive.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly — the tally was 81 to 17 — to repeal a minor provision that had brought vociferous complaints from business lobbyists.

Mr. Helms describes the condition imposed on the money as "one minor provision forbidding groups that accept Federal subsidies to use American tax dollars to lobby foreign governments to change their abortion laws". The World Health Organization has estimated that every year 80,000 women lose their lives as a result of unsafe abortions.

"It was the sort of bill where you usually lose Democrats to the business interests, but Daschle held the caucus together" — again, it came down to a single vote — "and, more important, he found a minor provision about reduced meat inspections and used it as the most accessible way to sell the public on our position.

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THERE are some pretty creative oddball interpretations of minor provisions of the constitution circulating out there.

Two minor provisions were struck, forcing the bill back to the House for a last vote.

This time round, politicians could not agree on seemingly minor provisions.

After the 2006 reform Massachusetts passed a few minor provisions to lower costs.

Republicans, raising procedural challenges, identified small flaws that struck out two minor provisions.

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