Sentence examples for used provision from inspiring English sources

Or, they said, he could seek to employ a rarely used provision of the Justice Department's guidelines for prosecutors allowing grand juries to issue reports.

In Washington, after a long debate over when to act and what to make public, the administration decided to invoke a rarely used provision of the Patriot Act.

State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi said yesterday that he would invoke a rarely used provision of state law to force the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to adopt new regulations intended to make its finances and budget practices more transparent.

Tapping a rarely used provision, the panel, the House Natural Resources Committee, voted 20 to 2 to stop any new claims to uranium on lands adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park for up to three years.

To finish it, he would deploy a rarely used provision in the Clean Air Act of 1970, which gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to issue regulations on carbon dioxide.

Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports June 1 by invoking a rarely used provision that permits the president to swiftly penalize imports on the grounds of national security.

Once in, they used provisions that gave siblings an automatic seat.

The FBI has used provisions of the Patriot Act, intended to combat terrorism, for purposes that greatly exceed congressional intent.

And he eliminated one of the most widely used provisions in the tax code: the state and local sales tax deduction.

In October 2008, the UK PM Gordon Brown used provisions in part 2 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 to freeze Landsbanki holdings in the United Kingdom.

Using provisions of the act, he sent thousands of troops to Montreal and canceled some civil liberties.