Sentence examples for use the act to from inspiring English sources

In 1978, a federal judge rejected President Jimmy Carter's effort to use the act to halt a coal miners' strike.

In one of those cases, Lexmark, a printer manufacturer, tried to use the act to sue a company that made compatible ink cartridges.

Critics argued that this would lead to secretive decision-making, but journalists now regularly use the act to hold public sector bodies to account.

Portpatrick wanted to use the act to acquire a strip of overgrown wasteland by the harbour to tidy it up and turn it into a picnic area.

The worry has to be that those keenest to use the act to threaten people with disconnection will be ruthless operators who act for owners of content that nobody would describe as mainstream.

The police may use the act to impose restrictions on demonstrations including location, duration and number of protestors to keep public order, however it is not designed to prevent reporters covering news events.

Jimmy Carter was the only president to have used the act to protect more land.

Undaunted, since the late 1980s, Collingsworth has been using the Act to represent everyone from victims of torture to child labourers.

Eliot Spitzer used the act to force a huge settlement out of Wall Street following the analyst scandal of the early 2000s.

Holocaust survivors used the act to pry damages from the Swiss banks that held the assets of Nazi victims.

(President Bill Clinton used the act to designate no fewer than 19 national monuments; President George W. Bush created six).