While the UCC codifies well-established practices, the UCITA involves high technology, an area that is still evolving, the NCCUSL's Miller said.

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This codifies, and may expand, schemes under which Venezuela supplies subsidised oil.

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And I'm happy to send to NPR the statutory language that was passed by the House and the Senate that codifies the New York waiver.

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The Navy and U.S. shipping industry support the Law of the Sea because it codifies traditional navigational rights such as the right of passage through international straits.

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But Jubouri says he worries that progress will be fleeting unless the Iraqi government codifies the diversity and the new standards that the national police force commander has introduced.

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The UCC is a long-standing statute that codifies commercial practices throughout the various states and currently covers, among other things, sale of goods and the leasing of personal property.

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The co-guardianship arrangement, which is supported by the three children, codifies "the very thing that's been in place since Michael's death, " Katherine Jackson lawyer Perry Sanders said after the hearing.

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And that codifies the principle and would say that millionaires and billionaires, in keeping with the principle that millionaires and billionaires should not pay taxes on their income at a lower rate than average Americans, that they would pay a minimum of 30 percent on their income.

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