Sentence examples for slipped a provision from inspiring English sources

Opponents in Congress slipped a provision delaying this into an unrelated bill.

The committee slipped a provision into the budget that Walker's office helped draft that would have dismantled Wisconsin's open records law.

Inexplicably, lawmakers slipped a provision in the deceptively titled "Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act" that prohibits cities from setting a minimum wage higher than the state's, which is $7.25 per hour.

In fact, Senate lawmakers think it's such a good idea, they slipped a provision into the must-pass highway bill funding road and transit construction that would start pilot projects to allow people 18 and up to drive tractor trailers in interstate commerce.

Contract chicanery is the practice of surreptitiously slipping a provision disadvantageous to the borrower into the mortgage note.

And in a last-minute revision, House leaders slipped in a provision that would allow for a limited exception in cases of rape or incest, but only if the woman had reported the crime.

In 2003 a House-Senate conference committee negotiating the expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs slipped in a provision mandating income-related Medicare premiums.

As if trying to redefine rape and incest wasn't enough, the anti-choice members now have slipped in a provision to the ironically named the "Protect Life Act" that would allow hospitals to refuse to provide abortion care to women who will die without it.

A few years ago a chicken producer in Georgia named Fieldale Farms persuaded its congressman to slip a helpful provision into an appropriations bill that would allow growers of organic chicken to substitute conventional chicken feed if the price of organic feed exceeded a certain level.

Speaking of Albany reporters covering the legislative process, some dogged ones noticed earlier this month that Cuomo tried to slip in a provision in the dark of night that would replace the honorary name of the Tappan Zee bridge from that of one former governor, Malcolm Wilson, to that of another: Cuomo's father, Mario.

The industry is trying to latch onto the stopgap bill that Congress must pass this month to combat Zika and to fund the government until Dec. 9, hoping to slip in a provision that would permanently block a rest regulation for truck drivers that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has tried to implement since 2013.