Assertion: act | /r/HasProperty | passed
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text: Before the 1996 Act was passed, the largest four ILECs owned less than half of all the lines in the country while, five years later, the largest four local telephone companies owned about 85% of all the lines in the country.
text: Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not "irrational prejudice or blind bigotry", but claimed that it was passed because "the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.
text: After the act was passed, most Chinese workers were faced with a dilemma: stay in the United States alone or go back to China to reunite with their families.