Sentence examples for so-called fix from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cornyn is the chief sponsor of the so-called Fix NICS Act, which would incentivize states and federal agencies to improve their reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, for gun purchases.

According to conservative constitutional law attorney Bruce Fein, "The so-called fix fits the purpose of the clause like a glove".

The legislation also includes the so-called Fix NICS measure, which tightens up the system for reporting criminal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

However, the Ministry of Defence announced in March 2007 that this so-called "Fix to Field" programme would be cancelled, and instead it would revert the helicopters' avionics to Chinook HC2/2A specification.

But she is expected to resist calls to drastically reduce stakes on so-called Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals (FOBT).

So-called fix-and-relax and lazy matheuristic algorithms, which are based on special features of the problem, are proposed, jointly with dynamic scenario aggregation / de-aggregation schemes.

Instead, we present the so-called Fix-and-Relax Coordination algorithmic framework to exploit the characteristics of the non-anticipativity constraints for each scenario group in the stochastic model.

If they could map the movement of the moon against the backdrop of the so-called fixed stars, navigators could use the heavens like a giant clock.

Large communications companies like WorldCom and Sprint are already providing so-called fixed wireless broadband service, a type of wireless access for homes and office buildings that uses spectrum the companies acquired in costly auctions held by the Federal Communications Commission.

The report reveals that in the 50 parliamentary constituencies with the highest numbers of unemployed people, punters visited 1,251 betting shops and put £5.6bn into 4,454 so-called fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs).

Sidereal time, time as measured by the apparent motion about the Earth of the distant, so-called fixed, stars, as distinguished from solar time, which corresponds to the apparent motion of the Sun.