Sentence examples for substantive act from inspiring English sources

Omitting or adding groups from the list is a substantive act.

"We're trying to disconnect the raising of money from the substantive act of lobbying -- of persuading the members of the merits of your position -- so that you're arguing on the merits, not because you can raise $50,000 at a lunch the next week," Potter said.

A charter amendment is not about two different substantive acts.

Entitled "Legislation against subversion", Article 149 states: To satisfy the requirements of Article 149(1), the preamble to the Malaysian ISA, which has been retained in Singapore's ISA, contains the following recital: Part II of the ISA, the first substantive part of the Act, contains provisions relating to internal security.

Three principles guided the development of the ACT: substantive theory, brevity, and modifiability.

Regulations are legal instruments implementing the substantive content of Acts of Parliament that have a continuing regulating effect.

The Seventh Circuit stated in February, 2013, that remedial unjust enrichment asks for the profit that the defendant obtained by a wrongful act and substantive unjust enrichment addresses situations in which the defendant by mistake or theft obtained something that belonged to another or the plaintiff rendered a service for which he should have been paid.

"And it doesn't affect the substantive safeguards of the Clean Air Act".

The Computer & Communications Industry Association has long advocated against the sections of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for both substantive and procedural reasons, used to justify the demand for these records.

The organization asserts that given what we know about the link between climate change and children's health, "failure to take prompt, substantive action would be an act of injustice to all children".

UNICEF: UNICEF has been appointed by the UN General Assembly to act as the substantive Secretariat for the Special Session.