Sentence examples for provisions of the first from inspiring English sources

In a separate bill signed by President Obama seven days later, Congress revised many provisions of the first bill.

The complaint was not about the words between the covers, which are clearly protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.

And the question is not what John Ashcroft or Arlen Specter hold as religious views, but whether the sacrosanct provisions of the First Amendment on freedom of religion will be maintained and enforced.

Mrs. Clinton, speaking at a news conference after the antismoking rally, also said she was against a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban flag-burning, asserting that it ran afoul of the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.

(The various provisions of the First Amendment, including the establishment clause, were gradually incorporated, or made binding on the states, by the Supreme Court in the first half of the 20th century through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment).

American Civil Liberties Union, the Supreme Court voted down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act (the CDA), finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment.

"Civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention," Mr Meron wrote to Levi Eshkol, the prime minister at the time.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2010, in the case of McDonald v. the City of Chicago, that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied to provisions of the Second Amendment, and prevented states and localities from restricting citizens' right to bear arms.

In the case of McDonald v. the City of Chicago in 2010, the court ruled that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — not the equal protection clause — applied to provisions of the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.

Israeli officials have known this since 1967, when Theodor Meron, then legal counsel to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and later president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, wrote to one of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's aides: "My conclusion is that civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention".

Given this split in conservative ranks, it is hardly surprising that the Bush administration has decided to stay out of the case.Mr Lawrence's and Mr Garner's lawyers argue that Texas's law violates the constitution in two ways: by breaching their rights to liberty and privacy, and by denying them the equal protection of the law, both guaranteed by different provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.