Sentence examples for sweeping provisions from inspiring English sources

Many of the law's most sweeping provisions go into effect in 2014.

When Congress passed the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act with the goal of protecting investors, it included sweeping provisions to encourage employees to blow the whistle on corporate wrongdoing by shielding them from retaliation.

Jonathan Band, a Washington, D.C., attorney who represents the American Library Association, which favors open access, says the bill's sweeping provisions are a fatal flaw.

Because of a lawyer's natural role as a risk manager, they tend to draft sweeping provisions which feature such phrases as "including, but not limited to" and "any and all".

Those agreements, one among political parties in Northern Ireland and the other between the British and Irish governments, contained sweeping provisions which ended direct British rule of Northern Ireland and changed Northern Ireland's system of government, creating new governmental institutions, allowing greater political participation and guaranteeing certain civil rights.

Both have criticised the government online; both were detained under a sweeping provision of the penal code that allows arrest for "abusing democratic freedoms" to "infringe upon the interests of the state".

Military sites are not excluded from the sweeping provision of 'anywhere'anywhere

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced a plan for sweeping new provisions on Wednesday to deal with Europe's refugee crisis, including new quotas for member states.

But now, the very corporations behind SOPA are at it again, hoping to reincarnate its terms within the Trans-Pacific Partnership's sweeping proposed copyright provisions.

Much earlier in its term, the coalition's attempt at sweeping reforms of planning provision was pushed back by resistance from the shires.

His police used the sweeping arrest provisions to muzzle dissent and round up opponents, including members of the Brotherhood and even Morsi himself.