Firefly is frozen in time, in a suspended state of entrepreneurial joy and limitless optimism.
In 1986, in protest against fraudulent elections in the northern state of Chihuahua, the archbishop suspended church services across the state for one Sunday.
In 2000, after thirteen people on death row in Illinois were exonerated, George Ryan, who was then governor of the state, suspended the death penalty.
The ruling Congress party in India's Assam state has suspended a politician accused of rape after he was set upon and beaten by crowds in a village.
Low doses of hydrogen sulphide, a gas which smells like rotten egg, can safely reduce the metabolism of mice, putting them into a state of suspended animation.
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Last year, Appalachian State University suspended a professor for creating a "hostile environment" after she criticized the university's treatment of sexual-assault cases involving student-athletes and screened a documentary critical of the adult-film industry.
"You get a state of suspended animation and the creatures do not pass away, and that's the basis of what we see as an alternative way to think about critical care medicine, " Roth says.
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And that distinction between a common currency and shared economic governance, coupled with continued political sovereignty is now proving to be a Frankenstein that is putting the world economy into a state of suspended animation.
The State Department has suspended embassy operations in Libya and will temporarily withdraw all embassy employees from Tripoli.
Although he has not been suspended, the New York State Racing and Wagering Board is conducting an investigation.
Instead, they are suspended in a partially divided state until they are needed, providing several decades for mutations to creep in.
In separate news, a China state bank has suspended FX swaps with UBS, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole, and BNP Paribas after those banks had reportedly reached their credit limits with the BoC.
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Heller filed a letter signed by Lohan with the court earlier this month saying she was dismissing Holley, a well-respected Los Angeles lawyer, and hiring Heller, whose reputation was marred in 1994 when the state supreme court suspended him from practicing law for five years.
Trenitalia, Italy's state railway operator, suspended train service from Bologna, and a friendly soccer match between Italy and Luxembourg in Parma was canceled.
Three days after Musharraf suspended the constitution and declared a state of emergency, Pakistan's judicial system is in lockdown, with thousands of lawyers jailed and many judges detained in their homes.
Mr McNamara also suggested the young man, who was in his first year at Ohio State University, had suspended his studies as a result of threats stemming from the video, according to reports.
What about money that would have accrued from other state sell-offs now suspended?
Those most deeply involved are in a state of nerve-wracking suspended animation until the ruling drops, constantly scouring Twitter for rumours of rumours and Scotusblog for facts.
He suspended the use of prescribed burns by state agencies on state lands -- including state parks, refuges, State Land Board lands and any agency that manages lands -- or under contract on nonstate lands, such as by the Colorado State Forest Service.
Two women police constables in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been suspended for detaining an alleged rape victim, 10, police have said.
Less rare for example than municipalities being taken over by their state governments and having their democratic process suspended.
The rejection by Californians of Proposition 23, which would have suspended the pioneering environmental and energy legislation that the state adopted in 2006, marks a West-coast brand of conservatism.
California officials suspended visitation and other "nonessential activities" at Centinela State Prison in Imperial County after an inmate was suspected of having swine flu.
He was subsequently suspended for three semesters from his teaching course at a Malaysian state-backed university.
Although Chris Christie, New Jersey's governor, suspended COLAs last year, he also deferred some of his state's pension payments earlier this year.
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Election authorities suspended voting an hour early at nine polls in the southern state of Chiapas Sunday after clashes between political groups backing competing candidates for mayor in the town of Rincon Chamula.
Overstock.com, based in Utah, suspended its similar "Affiliates" program in New York after the state statute was enacted.
Within hours of the explosion the province's Inspector General of Police, Abdul Hai Qadar, was suspended along with two other senior police officials, according to the state-run news agency, The Associated Press of Pakistan.
The African Union suspended Mali's membership in the group following the coup, and the State Department has warned against travel to the country.
Meanwhile, the Canvassing Board of Palm Beach County, where Al Gore won 64% of the vote, suspended its hand recount in deference to a legal opinion by the secretary of state that the procedure was unlawful under Florida law.
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