Sentence examples for useful provisions from inspiring English sources

Along with a host of giveaways to the coal, oil and gas industries, the energy bill contains similarly useful provisions aimed at preventing blackouts.

The bill did, however, contain a few useful provisions, one of which deserves to be resurrected the moment Congress returns to work.

One of the most useful provisions in an otherwise deeply flawed energy bill now before Congress would give the federal government power to safeguard electrical transmission by writing and enforcing mandatory reliability standards for companies.

K. P. S. Gill, a retired police official who is generally credited with stamping out the separatist movement in Punjab by the early 1990's, said the most useful provisions of both the old and the new laws were those that made it difficult to obtain bail.

This bill is what the energy expert Gal Luft calls "the sum of all lobbies". While it contains some useful provisions, it also contains massive pork slabs dished out to the vested interests who need them least -- like oil companies -- and has no overarching strategy to deal with the new world.

The bill includes several useful provisions, notably in the area of building energy efficiency.

These features make Section 3 a useful provision, but it has its weaknesses.

There is little to root for in these deliberations, although one very useful provision in the Senate bill must survive.

The latest ruling, for example, saved from immediate extinction a useful provision of the Clean Air Act that the Clinton administration and state officials like Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York had used to sue companies that failed to install pollution control equipment when they upgraded their plants.

Dodd-Frank no doubt contains some useful provisions--inevitably, in a 2,319-page bill.

But I think it is a useful provision, and I think it can be made to work.