raker act造句

• They opposed the Raker Act purely from an environmentalist standpoint.
• Whether or not the Raker Act is indeed being violated is still a matter of controversy.
• But this argument could not hold up against public interests that would benefit from the Raker Act.
• Shortly before Muir died he expressed the hope that " some compensating good must follow " from the Raker Act.
• After two vetoes by Teddy Roosevelt, on December 19, 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act permitting construction.
• He tried to enforce the Raker Act against the city of PG & E, which is then resold at a profit.
• All of these interests combined were not enough to defeat the Raker Act because of the larger public interests in San Francisco.
• Although Muir's avocation for National Parks against the Raker Act was an important proponent for the creation of the National Park Service.
• As supervisor he fought unsuccessfully to fulfill the Raker Act of 1913 and bring public power to the City and County of San Francisco.
• Roosevelt's successor, Woodrow Wilson, signed the Raker Act into law on December 13, 1913, which authorized construction of the dam.
• The Raker Act also gave the city the right to store water in Lake Eleanor and Cherry Lake, both located northwest of Hetch Hetchy in the park.
• The interests of the Spring Valley Water Company were strictly profit based because they held a monopoly on San Francisco's water supply before the Raker Act.
• Angela Alioto, a former president of the Board of Supervisors, pushed in the mid-1990s to examine why the city had not complied with the Raker Act.
• San Francisco also has a county jail complex located in San Mateo County, in an unincorporated area adjacent to watershed in Yosemite National Park by the Raker Act in 1913.
• The city and the Sierra Club argued over the dam for 10 years, until the U . S . Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913 and allowed dam building to proceed.
• In stark contrast, in the next session he was the main sponsor of what came to be known the Raker Act, passed in 1913 and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
• As the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has noted in a series of articles, the city is violating a 1913 federal law called the Raker Act requiring it to create a low-cost public power system.
• Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Department successfully brought suit against this cozy arrangement, a violation of the congressional Raker Act, and the city then arranged to use its own power for streetcars, street lighting and other public purposes.
• The U . S . Congress passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act in 1913, which permitted the flooding of the valley under the conditions that power and water derived from the river could only be utilized for public interests.
• Despite opposition from John Muir and the Sierra Club, San Francisco ultimately prevailed with the passing of the Raker Act, which authorized construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, and eventually turned the Hetch Hetchy Valley into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.