Sentence examples for provision enacted from inspiring English sources

The new rules apply to the earned-income tax credit, a provision enacted in 1975 and expanded several times.

This provision, enacted in 1946, was based on the view that rail workers had especially hazardous jobs involving skills not easily transferred to other occupations.

The provision, enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2005 and since adopted by more than 20 other states, allows people who fear great harm or death to stand their ground and not retreat, even if they can safely do so.

Hospital administrators and their allies in Congress had argued that the cuts could be prevented if President Bush moved to eliminate a cost-cutting provision enacted in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to reduce the size of Medicare, the health care program for the elderly.

The provision, enacted as part of the economic recovery plan, enables small businesses with a net operating loss in 2008 to elect to offset this loss against income earned in up to five prior years, instead of the usual two-year limit.

Postal inspectors videotaped Bond spreading the strange orange substance on the lover's mailbox, and the task of prosecuting Bond fell to federal officials, who invoked a legal provision enacted as part of the U.S. ratification of the Chemical Weapons Treaty.

It also dropped a House-written provision enacting a new authorization to use military force against Al Qaeda and its allies.

But the revised provisions, enacted largely in response to the recession, are responsible for a greater share of the increase.

Those provisions enacted stringent conflict-of-interest rules, required greater disclosure of transactions between management and large shareholders, and imposed tougher requirements on management to monitor internal controls.

This refers to legal provisions enacted over a decade with Democratic support that seek to prevent overspending by Congress by demanding that new tax cuts or spending be offset by new sources of revenue or savings.

The state had given Mr Nader, who is now running as an independent, one of his highest levels of support.A bill to extend welfare-reform provisions, enacted by the Clinton administration, was stalled in the Senate.