SWFs maintain a distinction from run of the mill foreign direct investment in that SWFs are by definition state controlled.
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Karen Steinhauser, a criminal-defense lawyer and former prosecutor in the Denver District Attorney's Office, said the state often files multiple murder charges if the nature of a crime matches more than one definition under state law.
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Windsor, which challenges the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that uses the traditional definition for federal law and says one state's definition cannot bind another's.
Mr Sharon even said he would accept his definition of a Palestinian State.
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Ms. BUTTU: The problem is that there's never really been a definition of a Jewish state other than to say a Jewish majority.
Since the concept of IW emerged in the mid-1990s as a topic of heated debate, its definition remains in a state of continual flux.
Their definition describes an unpleasant state of "wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity, " caused by problems with the brain's ability to pay attention.
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Mr. KERNAGHAN: I looked up the State Department definition of human trafficking and involuntary servitude and everything that the guest workers here are enduring matched those definitions 100 percent.
Some of the insurance companies that Sebelius mentioned in her report and the President mentioned in his weekly address are non-profits -- specifically in Rhode Island, Oregon, and Michigan -- that have been operating at a loss and are by definition regulated by the state and non-profits.
Congress attempted to address this problem in the Defense of Marriage Act by declaring that no state must accept another state's definition of marriage.
When people have voted as late as 10 months ago, 30 states have put the natural definition of marriage into their state constitution on average by a vote of 67 percent.
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The new definition better matches most current state statutes.
Starting a business or taking your company to the next level requires, by definition, shaking up the comfortable state of normalcy.
His administration has agreed to enforce the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which is the legal framework that allows a state to control its own definition of marriage and avoid having to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
The leading argument against DOMA all along has been that the federal government lacks authority under the Constitution to create and enforce a definition of marriage different from that of the state in which a couple resides.
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Worse, the definition of exactly what's taxable varies from state to state, with decisions often made on a product-by-product basis.
It is hard to think of an issue more clearly reserved to state law under constitutional tradition than the definition of marriage.
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Mr. Cuomo also plans to propose broadening the definition of what kind of gun falls under the state's assault-weapon ban and would seek to limit the size of gun ammunition magazines, the people said.
This hazy definition lets officials use their power as representatives of the state to displace villagers on the urban fringe.
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The only thing that is included in this definition of wealth is the extra, over and above state or occupational, pension saving.
Among the problems: The SSUTA requires a state and its cities to use the same definition of what's taxable and allows each local taxing jurisdiction only one sales tax rate.
The nomination was referred back to the State Party due to a lack of site boundary definition and legislative and management plan.
So what could be called a marriage was defined by religious organisations, which might answer the question in different ways, while the state didn't attempt to intervene in the definition of marriage.
Recent events, including the very public arrest of the Pennsylvania State University coach, have helped bring awareness to the issue of definition.
There are more than 7, 000 sales tax jurisdictions in the U.S. The SSUTA is meant to reconcile state sales-and-use tax rules and bring uniformity to the definition of items in the sales-tax base.
However, the ADA also says that this definition doesn't affect broader categories of "assistance animals" under other federal and state rules.
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It is by definition an inter-ministerial meeting to be attended by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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The state was unusual, both because it had lots of old deteriorating houses and because its definition of public nuisance was particularly broad, says Don Gifford, an academic and adviser to the industry.
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