They included a law giving tax-exempt status to some companies including his offshore holding company Belize Holding Inc (BHI).
Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to India's finance ministry, suggests that this may be partly because the law treats both bribe-giving and bribe-taking as crimes.
Fewer states have debated legislation affirming abortion rights in recent years, but expanded insurance coverage through the U.S. health law is giving abortion-rights advocates a new avenue to protect the procedure starting next year.
In May he forced through a law giving all vocational-school graduates, including those from imam hatip schools, equal treatment with other graduates.
But the slow-moving case was put on hold when parliament passed a law giving Mr Bouterse and his 24 co-defendants blanket immunity for human rights violations committed during military rule.
There is nothing currently in the law that prevents Labour-controlled councils giving large amounts of money to the Labour Party in this way.
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These steps, he believes, will align the incentives of those asked for bribes and law-enforcement agencies which seek to prosecute corrupt officials by giving their victims the confidence to lodge complaints and encouraging them to hang on to evidence of bribery.
With 2:42 to play, Denver's Eric Law and Carson Cannon each drew 30-second pushing penalties, giving Syracuse a two-man advantage.
Others see the law as appropriate, even enlightened, giving dying patients a much-needed choice when heroic medical procedures cannot help.
Yesterday, a decision by the drug and device maker to suspend gift-giving to doctors in India, which violates the law in that country, became known following a recent report by Reuters ( see this).
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There is no law of nature that says societies must go through long-lasting statist pangs before giving birth to a free state.
Plans with smaller choices of health-care providers are a big focus for insurers, partly because many other aspects of exchange plans, including benefits and out-of-pocket charges that consumers pay, are largely prescribed by the law, giving them few levers to push to reduce premiums.
The law requires public-housing authorities to decide whether improving such projects is cheaper than simply giving residents vouchers to find private housing.
So she overcompensated by giving provocative speeches and by serving law clerks queso blanco, a Spanish white-cheese dish.
The line-item veto law lapses on Jan. 1, 2005 unless Congress renews it, giving members a chance to evaluate how it is working.
That verdict could impact on thousands of indigenous communities in Ecuador and beyond who want their governments to adhere to international human rights law that requires them to consult with indigenous peoples before giving developments on their land the go-ahead.
Any gift-giving or transfer of assets that seniors undertake without the advice of a competent elder law and estate planning attorney can delay their eligibility when most needed.
It would convert Medicaid into a block-grant system, in a fashion similar to that of the spectacularly successful 1996 welfare reform law, giving states the flexibility to fashion programs that fit the needs of their residents.
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Mr Putin's decree is apparently intended to stiffen political spines and spur the passage of a law rather than do away with the need for one, with conventional legislation seen as giving the anti-corruption drive a greater mandate.
Now that Digg has caved to its users and allowed them to post the code, attorney Gregory Rutchik of the San Francisco-based Arts and Technology Law Group says the site could be sued by the AACS. "Giving someone code that expressly instructs how to steal content is infringing, " Rutchik says, pointing to the 2600 case as a precedent.
Why do we keep giving, as Vice President Biden did, iron-clad commitments to Israel when it violates international law?
As we speak, this law is making prescription drugs cheaper for seniors and giving uninsured students a chance to stay on their patients' -- parents' coverage.
As I said at the time, the decision by Justice Antonin Scalia changed class-action law in a subtle but powerful way, injecting the facts of the case at the earliest stages and giving defendants the chance to end a lawsuit before it gains so much momentum they are forced to settle.
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