Sentence examples for narrow provisions from inspiring English sources

"Why would you spend so much time and effort doing a great job in negotiating narrow provisions to this treaty, when you have a 'most favoured nation' clause?" This is where things get a little technical.

Instead, the Justice Department is relying on relatively narrow provisions of the Espionage Act of 1917, which punishes leakers only if they "knowingly and willfully" pass on information that hurts the country or helps a foreign power "to the detriment of the United States".

While the ruling may be a catastrophic blow to Florida's program, its impact nationally is limited, since it turns on a narrow provision of the State Constitution.

"It's a very limited and narrow provision that essentially deals with the subpoena itself and any following proceedings in connections with a motion to quash," said Charles A. Ross, a criminal defense lawyer.

The mercury ruling "hinged on a very narrow provision in the law," McCarthy said.

And a narrow provision restricting remedies for infringement of check imaging patents was added to the Senate bill.

You could do that with narrower provisions, as I have shown.

As a compromise that enabled final passage of that measure, the White House and Congress agreed to a narrower provision that rolled back one important element of the media rules.

Moreover, the House Republican lawmakers defied their leaders in July and joined with Democrats to approve a narrower provision overturning one of the new rules.

But the bill includes a narrower provision, drafted by the Senate, authorizing the government to detain, without trial, suspected members of Al Qaeda or its allies — or those who "substantially supported" them — bolstering the authorization it enacted a decade ago against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The compromise narrows that provision to apply to companies that do business overseas.