Sentence examples for passed a provision from inspiring English sources

The House passed a provision to audit the Fed as part of a larger financial reform package last month.

Instead, the delegates passed a provision that would merely suggest that everyone involved with judicial-conduct investigations "treat each other with respect".

Horse slaughter was effectively banned in the United States in 2007, when Congress passed a provision that barred the Agriculture Department from spending any money to inspect horse meat.

In a vote that advocates of abortion rights sought beforehand to keep quiet, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a provision on May 27 to allow privately financed abortions at military hospitals and bases.

In the final days of the state legislative session in Jefferson City last week, a death penalty moratorium was rejected, but the House, which Republicans control, passed a provision calling for a commission to study the question.

"When mandatory seat-belt use laws were being enacted, some states passed a provision that failure to use a seat belt could not be used against you in a personal liability lawsuit," Clarence M. Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit advocacy group founded in 1970 by Ralph Nader, said in a telephone interview.

In 2003, the Republican-dominated Congress tried to pass a provision that would have shielded M.T.B.E.

First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization that would place FedEx workers under the NLRA, the statute that protects virtually all other private sector workers.

A year ago the government passed a new provision of the raw preference laws aimed at pushing companies to spread their empowerment efforts beyond the upper echelon.

In 1986, they passed a "Dynasty provision" to Proposition 13, ensuring that an inherited house now comes with an inherited — and usually far-below-market — property tax bill.

Lawmakers in the Democratic-led Assembly, with the backing of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, passed a central provision of Mr. Obama's health care plan, a measure aimed at providing coverage to uninsured New Yorkers.