The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the purpose of National Security Letters (NSL) to allow government agencies to use them to request any data relevant to an investigation of terrorism or an intelligence activity without court oversight.
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It gives me great satisfaction to be able to act in service of this greater purpose.
The armed forces are exempt from the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act "for the purpose of ensuring the combat effectiveness".
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She said the purpose of the act was to prevent the intimidation and disruption of people engaged in lawful activity.
And that act remains the core and the purpose of the life of the church.
To this day, the CFAA serves the useful purpose of criminalizing the act of breaking into a computer system to commit fraud or theft.
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The entire purpose of the Recovery Act was to grow the American economy and grow American jobs here at home, and that's what it did.
The latest findings, which came after a decade of research, suggested it was the act of building the monument rather than its purpose that was key.
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Again, the purpose of the jobs act is to have the most immediate near-term impact, and near-term certainly means both 2012 and 2013, but also positive job impact in the future.
The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans.
The purpose of the American Jobs Act of 2011 is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans.
The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working.
The whole purpose of the 1986 vaccine act was to prevent the threat of sympathetic jurors from driving vaccine manufacturers out of the business, by setting up an alternate court system with scheduled damage payments.
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Section 203 of the Implementation Act sets forth certain rules for determining whether a good is an originating good for the purpose of implementing preferential tariff treatment provided for under the Agreement.
But regulators at the FTC have taken a different view, saying that such payments dilute the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.
U.S. officials draw a distinction between cyber espionage and cyberattacks, which have a destructive or manipulative purpose and could be considered an act of war.
Justice Stephen Breyer said that the fact the penalty would be "collected in the same manner of a tax doesn't automatically mean it's a tax, particularly since the purpose of the Anti-Injunction Act is to prevent interference with the revenue stream".
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One purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to protect the technology of file sharing, and companies that use it, by inventing a theoretical "safe harbor" that shelters all sorts of user-powered platforms from the consequences of illegal actions by the users.
The purpose of the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act is to prevent school employees from engaging in improper sexual conduct with students, but the ban on website communication is a broad measure that extends far beyond this purpose.
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He has been put on key cabinet committees by Mr Blair to act as his enforcer against ministers who lack the required clarity of purpose.
Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates greater openness, believes this opacity feeds concerns that the Chamber's main purpose is to act as a front for a subset of members on a relatively small number of controversial issues.
Their purpose came with a deep conviction in a set of values and the courage to act according to them.
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