Sentence examples for provisions called from inspiring English sources

Other provisions called for payment of U.S. private debts to British citizens, American use of the Newfoundland fisheries, and fair treatment for American colonials loyal to Britain.

Indeed, Enron's contracts with some of these partnerships had provisions, called triggers, that required Enron's stock price to stay above certain specific levels.

One of the bill's provisions called for immigration authorities to target for arrest only those undocumented immigrants who recently arrived in the country.

In normal years, Congress falls behind on its appropriations bills toward the end of the fiscal year, on Sept 30, and is forced to turn to short-term provisions, called continuing resolutions, to finance the government for a few months.

One of the more pointed corruption-related provisions called on the Supreme Court to complete all open investigations related to corruption, land grabs and serial assassinations within the next six months.

But Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who sponsored most of the Senate's criminal-penalties provisions, called the House bill a "weak echo" of his legislation's language.

Nominal legal provisions calling for minimum wages and guaranteed rest days are routinely ignored.

The complaint charged that the ad violated the code's provisions calling for "good taste" as well as provisions against depicting "overt sexual activity".

The authors of the legislation say one of its most important provisions calls for creating a regulatory body no longer captive to the profession.

But despite the ceasefire and provisions calling for "genuinely free and democratic general elections" in South Vietnam and the reunification of Vietnam "through peaceful means," it did nothing to end the war between North and South Vietnam.

The House provisions calling for a withdrawal from Iraq would also include a ban on torture of terrorism detainees, a prohibition on permanent bases in Iraq and new readiness requirements for troops, including more time at home between deployments.