"prompt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Two weeks later, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Selma to the state capital, Montgomery, prompting Congress later that year to pass the Voting Rights Act.
- The early waves of scandal from the subprime industry a decade ago prompted Congress in 1994 to adopt legislation requiring greater disclosure by high-cost lenders, but federal action to enforce those laws has been rare.
- The report prompted Congress, in 2000, to pass the law that led to the sanctuary.
- The crash made national headlines and prompted Congress to commission the Copeland Committee report on air traffic safety.
- This case, and others like it, prompted Congress in 1998 to create a new federal offense of identity theft.
- When tensions with Great Britain prompted Congress to appropriate funds for Colt's project toward the end of 1841, he demonstrated his underwater mines to the US government.
- That prompted Congress to intervene recently - an unusual action in a private lawsuit - to ask the two sides to work out their differences.
- It began to gain more attention a decade ago, prompting Congress in 1998 to make identity theft a federal crime and the Federal Trade Commission to set up a special victim assistance center a year later.
- These deficiencies prompted Congress to order Washington to send more troops north.
- Such criticism prompted Congress in 1984 to create the seven-member sentencing commission and instruct it to standardize sentences and toughen up on white-collar crimes and crimes involving drugs and violence.
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