After Pennsylvania passed a pilot program in 1994 to pay burial expenses for organ donors, state employees refusedtoimplement the law for fear of federal prosecution.
The Cardiff-based exam board initially refusedtoimplement the regrading and the minister was eventually forced to use his legal powers to issue a direction ordering them to carry it out.
Specifically, Mr. Pitt refusedtoimplement the May 2001 recommendations of his predecessor, then-Acting Chairman Laura Unger, regarding the necessary disclosure to investors of the material risks posed by companies doing business with countries under U.S. economic sanctions -- including terrorist-sponsoring states.
"The preconditions in the law were impossible toimplement because Jordan's press syndicate refusedto accept electronic press as part of its members, " said Jordanian political analyst Labib Kamhawi.