Sentence examples for temporarily expanded from inspiring English sources

Congress, under Democratic control, temporarily expanded eligibility for this program in 2009, but Republicans ended the expanded program after taking control of the House.

They are not, technically speaking, the first N.F.L. team to have reached the playoffs with a losing record: in its strike-shortened 1982 season, the league temporarily expanded its post-season to include 16 teams, and the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns each advanced with 4-5 records.

The city's two second-division football teams will not draw capacity crowds of 32,000 (temporarily expanded to 42,000 for the World Cup), but Mr Couto says that roughly 30 non-sporting events, mostly conferences and fair, are already planned between the end of the World Cup and the end of 2014.

To help facilitate the domestic response, Congress quickly passed the USA PATRIOT Act (the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001), which significantly but temporarily expanded the search and surveillance powers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII) and other law-enforcement agencies.

If the object is lost, the searching region can be temporarily expanded.

Georgia has protested after Russia temporarily expanded its Olympic security zone into the breakaway Georgian territory of Abkhazia.

Mr. Bush will also ask Congress to temporarily expand the authority of states and localities to issue tax-exempt mortgage-revenue bonds to help people refinance their mortgages.

Several lawmakers want to temporarily expand Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the big government-sponsored housing agencies, to allow for more mortgage lending and refinancings for homeowners facing foreclosure.

And in an attempt to, at least temporarily, expand its political presence outside Harrison, the PGA Tour will hold a reception tonight, 26 miles away, at Gracie Mansion, its host Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was to play with Woods today in the pro-am.

The two highways leave the town limits at their diamond interchange with I-81 (Maryland Veterans Memorial Highway), through which the roadway temporarily expands to a four-lane divided highway.

"Temporarily expanding California's prison capacity is neither sustainable nor fiscally responsible," Senate leader Steinberg wrote in a letter to Brown.