Sentence examples for secret provision from inspiring English sources

In August, thanks to leaks from Snowden, the Guardian identified the secret provision permitting such searches.

But the "deal" also included a public pledge not to invade Cuba and a secret provision that the United States would remove its missiles from Turkey.

The inaptly named Soviet-German nonaggression pact signed in August 1939 contained a secret provision to partition Poland, and by early October 1939 it had become the territorial meal of Hitler and Stalin.

Both sides used a variety of methods, including public threats or promises, the secret provision of money (frequently in bags of cash) to the preferred party or candidate's campaign, "dirty tricks," an increase in foreign aid or other assistance before election day or withdrawing this type of aid, or creating campaign materials and election strategies for the preferred side.

Congress has moved to block President Obama's plan to shift control of the U.S. drone campaign from the CIA to the Defense Department, inserting a secret provision in the massive government spending bill introduced this week that would preserve the spy agency's role in lethal counterterrorism operations, U.S. officials said.

Last December, former department of justice (DOJ) official Kyle Sampson discussed appointing Tim Griffin, a Karl Rove protege, to a US attorney post in Arkansas using the secret provision of the Patriot act that allowed the Bush administration to make its controversial appointments in the first place.

As the Times had it in its narrative, Amgen was handed a $500 million gift in the form of a secret provision modifying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In secret provisions Napoleon agreed to help Russia "liberate" most of European Turkey if Turkey rejected French mediation in its conflict with Russia.

It also reaffirmed in full Great Britain's capitulary rights (trading and consular privileges) in the Ottoman Empire, while its secret provisions provided that the British assist the Ottomans in the event of a French declaration of war against them.

Palin, he said, calls Twitter and Facebook "the socialized media". He dubbed Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican Party, "the Notorious G.O.P". The newly enacted health-care law, the president joked, has "hundreds" of secret provisions, such as one covering people in Massachusetts who've suffered "short-term memory loss" about the state's own efforts to reform health care.

And that, from what we now know of the TPP's secret provisions, will be its dire effect.