Diplomats at the United Nations are working on a document that would demand restrictions on oil and other commercial business with the Syrian regime if it refuses to implement the Annan peace plan for a cease-fire and a transitional government.

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This usually means a refusal to supply a document or a piece of information on demand.

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By the same token, a constitutional reform may be aimed at fixing imperfections in the system of representation or other imperfections that demand amendments from the original constitutional document.

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Over the weekend, U.S. officials informed allies negotiating a Canada-sponsored treaty to ban land mines that it was willing to sign it and drop a previous demand that a Korean Peninsula exemption be written into the document.

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"The industry is evolving very rapidly, and the law today is a 20th-century interpretation of an 18th-century document that is holding back the entire retail industry as it adapts to 21st-century consumer preferences and demand, " said David French, senior vice president for government affairs at the National Retail Federation, a retail-industry trade group lobbying for the legislation.

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