grandfather clause in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

grandfather clause in the PONS Dictionary

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Several teams were inadvertently permitted a grandfather clause to play without screening, leading to a few problems.
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It found grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests to be unconstitutional.
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The new constitution contained voter registration requirements such as: literacy tests, property requirements, and a grandfather clause.
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There are others who retain passes under a grandfather clause.
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Although the decision affected all states that used the grandfather clause, state legislatures quickly employed new devices to continue disfranchisement.
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Environmental regulations made it hard to build new coal ovens because they could only be rebuilt or replaced under an environmental grandfather clause, not installed from scratch.
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For one thing, there's a grandfather clause; the old rules still apply for investigations already underway.
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At the time, most medical practitioners were unable to meet the stringent standards, so a grandfather clause was included.
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Parliament also provided a special grandfather clause allowing those works already published to enjoy twenty-one years of protection.
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The grandfather clause was used in many states temporarily to exempt illiterate white voters from literacy tests.
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