Sentence examples for suspend the act from inspiring English sources

A flood of volunteers prompted the Selective Service System to unofficially suspend the act with a "draft holiday" in early 1949.

Judge Hudson, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, declined the plaintiff's request to suspend the act's implementation pending appeal, meaning there should be no immediate effect on its rollout.

Best of times In 2004 when the House of Lords ruled that the determination of the then Home Secretary David Blunkett to suspend the Human Rights Act and imprison foreign terror suspects without charge or trial was the 'real threat to the life of the nation'.

The failure by the Obama Administration to suspend the Jones Act requirements for the use of U.S.-flagged ships thus preventing foreign ships from aiding the effort to capture the oil in the Gulf has increased the damage from the current spill.

While Proposition 23 would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act by imposing unrealistic economic hurdles, Proposition 26 would cripple our climate protection efforts by making it impossible for California to fund the programs necessary to reduce climate-disrupting pollution.

"I don't think the other side can match that". Proposition 23 would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act, which was passed in 2006, until unemployment in the state drops to 5.5% for at least a year — a level that has rarely been achieved for that duration.

And who'd've thought that just 40 years after that landmark referendum, a federal government – with bipartisan support – would effectively suspend the Racial Discrimination Act and send troops (replete with all that resonance of 1788 invasion) into remote communities as part of the so-called "intervention"?

In other words, any time Sacramento is in the red, just suspend the Coastal Sanctuary Act or AB 32 or local development guidelines and generate some fresh cash.

1244, was not repugnant to the Constitution as conferring legislative and treaty-making power on the President, because it authorized him to suspend the provisions of the act relating to the free introduction of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides.

(On Sunday, ten days after it was suspended, the Jones Act was reimposed).

Another cut involves suspending the Lanterman Act, which guarantees myriad services for the developmentally disabled.