• In 1995, he became Acorn's attorney, participating in a landmark case to force the state of Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law.

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  • Two action groups - Against Turbines At Chiplow (ATAC) and Creakes Action for Protecting the Environment (CAPE) - sought permission to force the secretary of state for communities and local government to reconsider the two applications.

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  • Two action groups - Against Turbines At Chiplow (ATAC) and Creakes Action for Protecting the Environment (CAPE) - are now seeking to force the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to reconsider the two applications.

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  • State media quoted the ministry as praising "the firm Russian stance which is based on the UN principles of non-interference in internal affairs or the threat to use force against the safety of any state".

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  • "He enjoys all the legal guarantees provided by the criminal code and criminal procedure in force in the State of Vatican City, " it added.

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  • In any event, they shouldn't have the right to force out-of-state sellers to act as deputy tax collection officials if they decide to impose bad tax policy.

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  • But there is little comfort we can give to the families of the fallen angels who make their final trip home to Dover Air Force Base in my home state of Delaware.

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  • In case some politicians found it difficult to understand all this, Article 2(4) spelled it out in unequivocal terms: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state".

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  • Some of these groups have sued the State of New York to force it to roll back its reforms.

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  • But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.

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  • So I'm glad that not only is the Justice Department looking into it, I understand now that the governor of the state of Florida has formed a task force to investigate what's taking place.

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  • The staff of the Cairo Embassy has been overwhelmed by inquiries and the State Department now has a 24-7 task force and call centers, said Assistant Secretary of State Janice L. Jacobs.

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  • Mark Mix of the Louisiana State Police told CNN late Thursday that a force of police officers would be arriving in New Orleans soon to beef up the law-and-order effort.

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  • The Organised Crime Task Force was announced by the secretary of state in September 2000.

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  • If the liberals become Germany's third force in the state, many of them would hope to displace the Greens in a ruling coalition in Berlin as well as in Dusseldorf.

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  • In a scenario where both SMU and Houston are brought into the league, it would force Oklahoma State and the University of Oklahoma to be in the north division of the conference.

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  • The mortgage fraud task force I announced in my State of the Union address retains its full authority to aggressively investigate the packaging and selling of risky mortgages that led to this crisis.

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  • In Germany, where a ban on online gambling came into force last year, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has ordered Betfair, a British firm (see article), to block access to its residents.

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  • "It is the second year of a budget crisis that has force it to devote most state funds to paying salaries and maintaining employment at the cost of both development and creating effective security forces, " Cordesman said.

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  • But the provincial authorities, he argues, cannot force them to build local clinics instead of state-of-the-art hospitals, or to surface dirt roads instead of building showy suspension bridges.

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  • If that was unlikely to fly, the military met another demand on December 10th, as BNP leaders met to consider a poll boycott: it announced that the state of emergency in force since January 2007 would be lifted.

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  • Norman Schwarzkopf, a West Point graduate who fought in World War I, became head of New Jersey State Police, helping to build the fledgling force and eventually leading the investigation of the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

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  • The most obvious of these pacifying forces has been the state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

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  • With over 5m people, or nearly one in five of the labour force, working for the state, any squeeze on public-sector pay or benefits can draw crowds on to the streets.

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  • As the dragnet entered its fourth day Sunday, the manhunt widened with the creation of a joint task force that brought together state and local law enforcement officials along with the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service.

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  • Ashcroft told the audience of about 150 federal members of the counterterrorism task force that he expects them to coordinate the interviews but that state and local police agencies will conduct most of the questioning.

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  • Officials hope the task force will complete its work by the time of the state's next legislative session, so changes could be made then, she said.

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