The Court spent much of its opinion reciting the law on the narrow exception to the no-tax-payer-standing rule.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long-standing rule that acceptance speeches should last no longer than 45 seconds (this year, that limit has been raised to a minute), but it was not until 2003 that the show's producers attempted to enforce it.
The other takes place over a few days at one building, where about 2, 300 career Communist Party members will elect a 23-person Politburo and the 9-person Standing Committee that will rule China for the next ten years.
The official called Milosevic's arrest a good example of Yugoslavia "standing up for the rule of law, " but said the United States won't hold a donor's conference to further assist the Yugoslav economy until Belgrade takes certain concrete steps to further illustrate its commitment to justice.
But in Mingora the Taliban still rule the roost, standing eyeball to eyeball with soldiers holed up in government buildings.
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Only clear criteria for judicial standing and judicial writ prevent the rule of law from deteriorating into the rule of lawyers.
This scenario where "losers become winners" was described as an "abuse" of the democratic system by Labour, which introduced a new rule which bans any individual from standing as a candidate in both a constituency and on the regional list.
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The amendments will remove the long-standing prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising contained in Rule 502(c) of Regulation D.
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Until this year each perceived new challenge to party rule seemed to bolster Mr Zhou's personal standing.
These rule the provinces much as the nine-member Politburo standing committee in Beijing rules China as a whole.
Mr. ElBaradei, 68 years old, is a Cairo native with a history of standing up to Egypt's previous strongman governments even before the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
The constitution bars Mr Museveni from standing for another term in 2006, and he insists that he will not break this rule.
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Short of an outright resolution, the Court could honorably rule that the private parties who filed the case don't have Article III standing to sue.
He was asked by James Landale, standing in for Andrew Marr as he continues to recover from his stroke, whether Labour would rule out any future referendum.
Russian officials remember well their recent experience in Iraq, in which long-standing collusion with the Saddam regime led to their ouster from lucrative contracts following the end of Ba'athist rule.
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