"provision" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If a last-minute provision in the Senate farm bill becomes law, irradiated hamburger could become known by a more appealing name: pasteurized beef.
- In Sparta, N.J., we stopped for last-minute provisions at a market where Sophie grabbed a "Pocahontas" video.
- But last week, Senate and House Republicans on the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee inserted a last-minute provision into the department's fiscal 2006 budget specifying that certain artificial ingredients could be used in organic food.
- Republicans, Mr. Obey noted, had no problem inserting a last-minute provision protecting drug companies from vaccine lawsuits.
- The last-minute provision makes it possible for certified organic farms to give their animals conventional feed containing antibiotics and pesticides and still allow them to label the meat as "certified organic."
- But Mr. Wicker insisted that his last-minute provision was not intended to block rules to make upholstered furniture safer.
- In an effort to raise revenues, tax writers in Congress added a last-minute provision that retroactively increased taxes for Americans living abroad.
- One of his few, hasty, last-minute provisions prior to setting out for Elysia had been to load the time-clock with three bottles of the very best cognac.
- Congressional officials on both sides of the aisle say Speaker J. Dennis Hastert added the last-minute provisions at the request of Representative Nathan Deal, Republican of Georgia.
- Republicans also inserted a last-minute provision that would delay by a year the start of screening airport baggage for explosives.
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