Sentence examples for questionable provisions from inspiring English sources

Last week, however, 26 Republicans in the House demonstrated a remarkable consistency by joining 122 Democrats to prevent the extension of three questionable provisions of the Patriot Act, the post-9/11 law created during the Bush administration.

It contains a constitutionally questionable provision that would prohibit a wide range of former government employees from providing paid commentary, including opinion articles, on "matters concerning the classified intelligence activities of any element of the intelligence community or intelligence related to national security".

It is certainly to protect itself against potential convictions that France was careful to join to its ratification of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 1998 an interpretative declaration - the validity of which is questionable - that provisions on war crimes would concern exclusively conventional weapons and could not prohibit the use of nuclear weapons.

Question questionable sources.

The proxy advisory firm also called the go-shop provision "questionable".

It is questionable whether such provision would have developed organically otherwise.

While noting that, the commission says the TPP contains provisions of questionable benefit.

Lucent largely attributed the profit warning to shrinking revenue at its fiberoptic equipment and Internet-switching operations, in addition to larger provisions for questionable debts from companies that have received financing from Lucent to purchase its equipment.

A key economic policy adviser to the federal government has said the Trans-Pacific Partnership has provisions of "questionable benefit" – including an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause allowing foreign corporations to sue the Australian government if they think the government has introduced or changed laws that hurt their commercial interests.

Finally, the separate streams of managing financial resources on the one hand and providing health services on the other may result in the provision of questionable quality when providers feel they are functionally losing from the arrangement.

One of the more questionable aspects of the budget is a provision labeled the "Stable Rate Pension Contribution Option".