Example sentences of "[art] new law [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new law constituted the first major revision of the quotas of legal immigration in 25 years and ranked in importance with the Quota Act of 1921 , which established the first numerical restrictions , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . |
| 2 | The new law described the " Corsican people " as " part of the French people " ; established a regional executive council with its own powers , and provided for the drawing up of a new electoral register . |
| 3 | The new law legalizes the already common practice of felling native forests and converting the land to plantation use , reflecting the lobbying of an expanding and powerful forestry industry . |
| 4 | Replacing legislation which had not altered significantly since 1936 , the new law opened the way for publicly owned banks ( approximately 80 per cent of the sector ) to become joint stock companies . |
| 5 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 6 | More than 100,000 people demonstrated on Dec. 27 in Algiers , protesting at political and religious intolerance and over rapid Arabization symbolized by a new law forbidding the use of French and Berber . |
| 7 | After six years of litigation , the courts decided in favour of the Aube growers and , in 1927 , a new law quashed the deuxième designation once and for all , outlining a detailed list of communes eligible for the appellation Champagne ( see Appendix IV ) , the broad outlines of which are still in existence today . |
| 8 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |