Retroactive Sentence Examples

The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

When a new vaccine is added to the Vaccine Injury Table, coverage is retroactive for eight years.

The United Nations began last year to try to quash Iraq 's surcharges by imposing a system of retroactive pricing on Iraqi oil.

Interest also accrues on retroactive support ordered.

Although the Act did not go into effect until March 1, 2009, it was made retroactive to September 1, 2008.

The Commission is currently considering whether to propose retroactive legislation.

Prodigy has contended that the CDA should govern this case by retroactive application.

The seizure was made retroactive to the day of the occupation of the territory by the German troops.

The Law of 1945 was clearly, it was held, intended to have a retroactive effect in permitting the death sentence.

New items of memory tend to ' displace ' old items of memory (similar to retroactive interference ).

The Chilean government made it quite clear that they would withdraw from the congress if this proposal was meant to be retroactive; and their unyielding attitude testified to the apprehensions felt by Chile concerning United States interference.

In 1893 the disqualification was made no longer retroactive, the two-year clause was omitted, and the test oath covered only present renunciation of polygamy.

According to consolidation theory, retroactive interference should have a greater adverse effect of recently formed memories than older ones.

List the company into a single slap retroactive taxes retained the tort.