Sentence examples for provisions on paper from inspiring English sources

But until such plans prevent the death of innocent citizens, their provisions on paper mean nothing.

"When we have provisions on paper at a legislative level, we have to wait some years for those provisions to be carried out at the grassroots level," said Professor He. "China is a huge country and it might take 10 years".

"On paper, the provisions are pretty good," Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer for the Bah family, said.

Bail-in tools, and other provisions like them, all look great — on paper.

Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International's Turkey researcher, told the Guardian: "Although on paper there is provision for alternative housing in the form of these TOKI houses, we see that the houses which are – on paper – are available to the people displaced from Sulukule are not appropriate, they're not affordable".

And what else might "strict constructionist" be code for?(* The constitution gives fairly little power to the federal government on paper, but the provision giving Congress the power to "regulate interstate commerce" has been used to justify gajillions of federal measures having little to do with interstate commerce. ).

Whereas this is perfectly possible on paper under the new provisions of the Moudawana, women and girls will often prefer to stay in a forced marriage than divorce.

Its beginning was amateurish and precarious; neither Hadden nor Luce had much experience when they started summarizing the news from bundles of daily papers (copyright provisions on newspapers allowing this use).

As the narrative in this book makes clear, it is significant that in the crucial cabinet meeting three weeks later it was Thatcher who claimed that the fine print of the act would exempt Murdoch from its provisions on the grounds that both papers were unprofitable.

The mandatory provision of crèche facilities at worksites appeared to exist only on paper and mothers had to spend a considerable time away from infant feeding and care.

169 The contractual provisions, when construed as a whole, show that the right conferred is limited solely to reproduction on paper products (posters, cards or other stationery products).