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How to use the word clauses in a Sentence?

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The consequences of the Court's rapid transformation of the Religion Clauses must not be understated.

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Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses.

David Shear

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of the small deals are dictated by legal documents, there are clauses in there that can trip you up, and you have to be aware of at least what it means. You may not be able to sort of dissect the nuances, but you have to understand what the impact is because brands are savvy enough to stick that stuff in there.

Michael Rueda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

Edward H. Crane

added by Normando
3 years ago

Our lawsuit demonstrated for the first time that the Emoluments Clauses, centuries-old anti-corruption protections embedded in the Constitution, can be enforced and that Emoluments Clauses mean federal officials can not accept anything of value from foreign or domestic governments, the Supreme Court's decision.

Karl Racine

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The proposed standard contractual clauses look very promising and they are already introducing many thoughts given by the data protection authorities.

Wojciech Wiewiorowski

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We know that non-compete clauses can limit employee mobility and competition even in states where non-compete clauses are legally unenforceable.

Rebecca Slaughter

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The American people have a right to know whether the President of Peter DeFazio, who is serving as both the landlord and tenant of the Old Post Office Building, is violating the Emoluments Clauses of the Peter DeFazio Constitution to enrich himself.

The House Transportation Committee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The company has supply contracts preventing sellers from sourcing their maize from the forest or any other protected area, we work with (environmental group) Fanamby to control our suppliers, respect the contracts' clauses and to ensure the traceability of our maize supply ... using maize from protected areas would be against what we consider to be our society responsibility.

Francis Ambroise

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Hosting the G7 Summit at Doral implicates both the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, because it would entail United States to benefit the President, the latter potentially including both federal and state expenditures. More importantly, the Doral decision reflects perhaps the first publicly known instance in which foreign governments would be required to pay President Trump's private businesses in order to conduct business with the United States.

Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's not accurate to say the deal expires, certain clauses of the deal expire and a lot of the key clauses don't expire.

Naysan Rafati

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The whole data transfer system would be impacted and could impact the global economy, there are alternatives to the standard clauses, including the derogations set out in the GDPR such as consent, contractual necessity and others but they are strictly interpreted and difficult to apply in practice.

Tanguy Van Overstraeten

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They're giving me and authorizing me, enabling special powers that stem out of the state of emergency clauses in our constitution. This is an order by the Supreme Court. It's a historic ruling.

Nicolás Maduro

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We yesterday informed Mr Schrems and Facebook of our intention to seek declaratory relief in the Irish High Court and a referral to the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) to determine the legal status of data transfers under standard contractual clauses.

The IDPC

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We yesterday informed Mr Schrems and Facebook of our intention to seek declaratory relief in the Irish High Court and a referral to the CJEU to determine the legal status of data transfers under standard contractual clauses.

The IDPC

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If the courts decide that the standard contractual clauses cannot be relied upon and that the transfers of personal data which they facilitate must be halted, the effect on international business would be catastrophic.

Oliver Yaros

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The exclusivity clauses in the lease agreements may be causing distortion in the grocery retail sector by entrenching barriers to entry and expansion, a single national grocery retailer operating in a shopping centre may be in a position to charge higher prices due to lack of competition.

Halton Cheadle

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Even though some clauses are heavily stacked against the builders, we believe that this bill has the potential to transform our industry.

Rajeev Talwar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be difficult for producers to insist on destination clauses.

Ben Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fact that some bonds don't have collective action clauses is a problem, venezuela has more commercial connections with the US than most sovereigns do and that increases the litigation risk. They should be concerned about a debt restructuring that left behind holdouts.

Lee Buchheit

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These so-called narrow best-price clauses still limit competition between existing portals as well as competition between the hotels, the incentive for a hotel to reduce its prices on a hotel portal is very low when it has to charge higher prices on its own website at the same time.

Andreas Mundt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The contractual option that would allow Shell to have 100 percent of Raízen is being undone, when you marry with someone you need to have a way out. That was foreseen in the original contract. But now we already know each other, we are getting along well together, so these protection clauses are no longer necessary.

Cosan Chairman Rubens Ometto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rental agreements often have clauses that allow landlords to invalidate a lease if it’s discovered that the tenant lied on an application, so I assume if the tenant has a pig roast, they could accuse the tenant of fraud on the rental application.

Michele Hunter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If Canada is not part of the TPP, our whole auto industry will be at risk, because we will lose lots of opportunities to expand our markets within the Asia-Pacific region … we are looking to include clauses that would safeguard our industry.

Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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