Sentence examples for rejected provisions from inspiring English sources

The rejected provisions were parts of two laws — H.B. 56 in Alabama and H.B. 87 in Georgia — that sponsors had openly acknowledged were designed to root out and punish illegal immigrants, making it impossible for them to live there.

As my colleagues Adam Liptak and John H. Cushman Jr. report, the Supreme Court rejected provisions of the law that would have required immigrants to register with the federal government and would have made it a state crime for immigrants to hold jobs without proper documents.

The US Congress should reject provisions in a defense spending bill that would permit long-term indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects, Human Rights Watch said today.

Many midwives were against abortion and showed scepticism about abortion care and cited religious or moral reasons for rejecting provision of abortion care.

The family rejected the provisions, Colonel Breen said.

He objected to mandatory reviews of progress on curtailing the illegal arms trade, and he rejected any provisions that could prohibit private ownership of small arms.

ALBANY — Both houses of the State Legislature passed budgets on Tuesday that rejected crucial provisions of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's overhaul of Medicaid and restored hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed cuts to education, drawing sharp battle lines with the governor two weeks before the deadline to pass a spending plan.

The independent Mr. Ebsen rejected that provision.

Critics said that all the changes, including the rejected Supreme Court provision, would have returned the state's judiciary to the era of cronyism.

Judge Marrero vehemently rejected that provision, saying that it was unique in American law in its "all-inclusive sweep" and had "no place in our open society".

Congress rejected a provision to indemnify the makers of MTBE, a gasoline additive that has fouled drinking-water supplies across the country.