Example sentences for: proviso

How can you use “proviso” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For instance, courts have overturned the proviso that donated parkland be available only to white people.

  • We have in some cases stated that when an "excepting proviso is found unconstitutional the substantive provisions which it qualifies cannot stand," for "to hold otherwise would be to extend the scope of the law . . . so as to embrace [situations] which the legislature passing the statute had, by its very terms, expressly excluded."

  • Reno approved the surveillances pursuant to section 2.5 of Executive Order 12333 with the proviso that the results of these particular surveillances not be shared with criminal investigators or prosecutors without the approval of the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review.

  • *** It is illuminating to speculate how these cases would have been decided if Congress had enacted §504(a)(16) without its proviso (prescribing only the general ban against "litigation, lobbying, or rulemaking, involving an effort to reform a Federal or State welfare system"), and if the positions of the parties before us here were reversed.

  • The restriction on litigation, however, is unique, and it contains a proviso specifying what the restriction does not cover.


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