Sentence examples for passed acts from inspiring English sources

Through the work of these campaigners during the 1830s and 1840s, parliament passed acts to limit the length of the working day for women and children.

In the 1980s Arkansas and Louisiana passed acts requiring the balanced treatment of evolution science and creation science in their schools, but opponents successfully challenged the acts as violations of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.

The legislature passed acts in 1895 that removed the last of the governor's authority to appoint anyone to executive positions.

However, William, who was more tolerant than the kirk tended to be, passed acts restoring the Episcopalian clergy excluded after the Revolution.

Colonial society was largely divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery and colonies passed acts for and against the practice.

In 1800, the British and Irish parliaments both passed Acts of Union that, with effect from 1 January 1801, merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain to create a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 1220 of 2003, which established a formal Child Health Advisory Committee (CHAC) and mandated BMI screenings for public schoolchildren.

We're just passed Act 1; Act 2 takes us through mid-spring, when the economy's buoyancy is tested along with GM's share of the market.

In 2011, Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Wisconsin Republicans passed Act 10, which repealed collective bargaining rights for most government workers.

By 20 April 1914, when the residents passed Act to Incorporate the City of Sarnia, the population had grown to 10,985 in six wards.

The answer, from Jonathan Swift QC, was that there was an important point of law, that the assembly should only pass acts which were firmly within its powers.