Sentence examples for rule act from inspiring English sources

It was 185 years before Congress fulfilled Madison's promise -- with enactment of the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act, creating an elected local government for Washington.

However, when war broke out in Europe, the British government postponed the operation of the Home Rule Act until after the war, and the Liberal government of H.H. Asquith implied that special provision would be made for Ulster.

If passed by a 51% majority, the referendum would mandate city authorities to begin spending locally raised tax revenue without first going to Congress – by amending DC's Home Rule act.

"Congress needs to pass the Midnight Rule Act," Mr. Nadler said in a statement, "to give President-elect Barack Obama the ability to quickly reverse these policies and undo these last, right-wing gasps of the Bush administration".

To avoid such problems, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has introduced a bill, the Midnight Rule Act, that would give incoming cabinet secretaries — starting with the Obama administration — greater power to rewrite regulations issued during the final three months of the previous presidency.

Under the 1948 Home Rule Act the islands became self-governing.

Second, the designed novel fusion rule acts on the shared and exclusive sparse coefficients to obtain the fused sparse coefficients.

An asymmetric spike time-dependent plasticity rule acts upon an initially unstructured network of spiking neurons that receive inputs encoding animal velocity and location.

There have been rare exceptions, but in general the bar for a successful libel suit by a public figure is set so high that the mere existence of the Sullivan rule acts as a suit dissuader.

The current rules act as a disincentive for people to cash in pots, as the tax penalties are far more punitive.

The asserted rules act upon the cells and change the state of the cell at every discrete time step.