Sentence examples for used provisions from inspiring English sources

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.

The industry has long used provisions of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as Erisa, to fight off patient lawsuits; the 1974 law limits state-court actions against benefit plans, including claims for wrongful death or injury.

The deals have often used provisions to assure that a company will ultimately be held to terms no less favorable than the best obtained by any other party when a final agreement is struck.

He said he could imagine a situation in which the Internal Revenue Service used provisions in the tax code to go after the person to whom money was transferred, to pay estate taxes that large gifts would avoid.

In another example, a Malaysian firm, MTD Equity, used provisions of an investment treaty between Malaysia and Chile to win a $10.8 million case against Chile in 2004 over a residential and commercial development that government authorities ended up opposing.

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.

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.

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.

Utilizing a commonly used provision of the JOBS Act, DocuSign submitted its IPO filing behind closed doors and will reveal it weeks before its public debut.

It's a novel application of a rarely used provision of the act," Lorenzen said.