Sentence examples for provisions fail from inspiring English sources

"The Modern Slavery Act's central focus on prosecution is misguided and its provisions fail to fully protect the rights of trafficked children," she says.

Those modest steps, however, were sacrificed because other Democrats did not want to see further-reaching provisions fail at the expense of a package that the gun rights lobby wanted, aides said.

Unlike scales for events like hurricanes, which are based on measurements of a single factor like wind speed, the nuclear event scale is based on many criteria — some having to do with exposure of the public to radiation, some with the condition of the reactor fuel and still others with whether safety provisions fail.

The draft law has also been criticised by constitutional experts, who say that some of its provisions fail to treat Muslims equally.

If all these provisions fail to recover the money spent by Treasury after five years, the president will be required to submit a plan to recover the shortfall from the financial services industry.

In 1994 a separate agreement addressing the United States' concerns over the deep sea-bed provisions failed to produce our ratification.

Yet, its provisions failed to stop all unlicensed nurse workers from practicing.

If introduced as proposed, it could do damage to existing provision, fail to play to the UK strength of diversity and lead to a planning blight".

The provision failed in a voice vote, an outcome with which Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida who is a co-author of the bill but does not sit on the committee, was not pleased.

But the House, which passed a bill last year that left out the immunity provision, failed to follow course this month after Democratic leaders sought more time to negotiate a compromise.

This final provision failed when James VI of Scotland became James I of England upon Elizabeth's death.