Clayton Antitrust Act

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an act of Congress in 1914 supplementing the Sherman Antitrust Act and establishing the FTC.

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How to use Clayton Antitrust Act in a sentence

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
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Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
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That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
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But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.
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He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
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He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
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He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
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This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.
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The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.
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