Sentence examples for tweak the law from inspiring English sources

Some Republicans would like to tweak the law to give Mr Bush the powers he says he needs.

The French ruling in late December was based on a technicality, and the government has vowed to tweak the law and try again.

As a result, America intends to tweak the law, yet continue to ban online gaming generally.The ruling will not change much for the online gambling industry, which has estimated revenues of $10 billion annually, half from Americans.

There is no desire to change the law regarding straight red cards (although I have argued previously in this series that the authorities could tweak the law regarding the denial of goalscoring opportunities).

Stopping them risks saddling Trump with the blame for the chaos and loss of coverage it could produce, and Democrats have prodded congressional Republicans to tweak the law, as part of a budget deal, so that the payments are no longer legally vulnerable.

A bill proposed in 2009 by Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, would tweak the law's language so the city could pursue its plan.

This will be hard to prove, but Mr Welch felt obliged to go down the legal track after watching union-backed Democrats repeatedly resist attempts to tweak the laws in the legislature.Last year two of those unions joined the lawsuit to defend the statutes.

Kevin Murphy, Waunakee, Wis.: The way for Congress to respond to a president and vice president who knowingly order that laws be broken, and who ignore the system of check and balances in their attempt to establish an omnipotent executive, is not to tweak the laws they break to make their actions legal.

Right away, the World Trade Organization ruled the deduction violated agreements by subsidizing exports, so Congress tweaked the law.

David Cameron, the prime minister, this week pointed out that the government recently tweaked the law to expedite extraditions; he wants to reform Britain's relationship with the European court.

But when Congress tweaked the law in 1975, it added the so-called "companionship exemption," which excluded workers who provide "companionship services for individuals who (because of age or infirmity) are unable to care for themselves".