Any new system is also likely to retain provisions for roughly 100 national-constituency seats awarded on a proportional basis.

The new rules retained provisions for aesthetics, but allowed the contests to be judged as physique contests.

The constitution, however, retains provisions that would legalize the potential reintroduction of conscription.

It retained provisions from the colonial charter such as the substantial property qualification for voting and the ability of the governor to prorogue the legislature.

One was whether to retain vague provisions that prohibit unfair competition (and that Farmland feared would be used to curb newcomers).

The Greens insist that the new law retain provisions allowing dual citizenship.

In September 1988 the House voted 216 to 166 to retain restrictive provisions, limiting Federal abortion aid only to women whose lives are endangered.

The revision would retain provisions permitting spouses to testify in crimes in which they or their children were the victims.

I think it is important to retain and reinforce provisions on the prescribing of certain routes for the transport of dangerous goods.

The Bush administration proposed to drop the consent requirement while retaining other provisions, often in a revised form.