Meanwhile, in 1989, the US Congress passed a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act.

Fears that the DPP would one day take control of the legislature led then-President Lee Teng-hui to push through a series of amendments to strengthen presidential power ( for example, Taiwan's premier would no longer have to be confirmed by the Legislative Yuan ).

However, the recent amendments made to their respective Statute of Autonomy by a series of " ordinary " Autonomous Communities such as the Valencian Community or Aragon have quite diluted this original de facto distinction.

The Ontario Liberal Party also joined the filibuster with a smaller series of amendments ; a typical Liberal amendment would give a historical designation to a named street.

The NDP then added another series of over 700 amendments, each proposing a different date for the bill to come into force.

However, following a change of government in 1932 a series of amendments progressively removed many of the provisions that were required by the Treaty.

If amendments are permitted under the rules governing floor action on the bill they are debated and voted upon at the time of the amendment ( although common practice usually permits the House to debate several amendments without immediately voting on them, then voting back-to-back at the end of the series of amendments.

On August 23, 2004, the Legislative Yuan passed a series of amendments that included abolishing the National Assembly.

The Conservatives filibustered the legislation and moved a series of amendments ( including one calling for the scheme to be put to referendum ), but the Liberals voted unanimously in its favour.

During the 1970s, a series of amendments was passed under popular governors that also increased their powers.

A series of amendments are due to be released in 2012.

The Ontario New Democratic Party filibustered the legislation by proposing a series of amendments, each of which required the government to consult the residents of a specific street in the city before implementing the amalgamation.

These positions were questioned by the Quebec leader of the party, André Parizeau, who formulated a series of amendments in support of immediate independence in 2004 which were rejected by both the National Executive Committee ( NEC ) of the Quebec party ( by a vote of 4-2 ) the by the Central Executive Committee of the Canadian party ( by a vote of 7-1 ).

He then filed a series of amendments to his application which stretched out the legal process resulting in a delay of 16 years before the patent was granted on November 5, 1895.

In the end, moderate voices dominated and the final product was not secession or nullification, but a series of proposed constitutional amendments.

Pope said: " We were doing a series of government amendments.

Criminal Code of Canada amendments between the 1890s and the 1970s introduced a series of minor controls on firearms.

In December 1860, he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but Congress did not approve them.

After Cooper's re-election in 1966, he worked with Idaho Democrat Frank Church on a series of amendments designed to de-fund further U. S. military operations in the region.

Frank Church and Cooper collaborated on a series of amendments to de-fund expanded U. S. military involvement in Southeast Asia.

During its 2002 annual session, the MPR added a series of amendments to the Constitution of Indonesia, including the removal of the military's 38 appointed seats in the Assembly, and an amendment for direct election of the President and Vice President.

In the summer of 2004, the legislature overwhelmingly passed a series of proposed constitutional amendments to halve the size of the legislature and abolish the National Assembly, among other measures.

A series of linked carbon atoms is known as the carbon skeleton or carbon backbone.

He is well known for having given a series of lectures in which he championed a pure form of Christian doctrine and chastised his audience about their laxity.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

The former, also known as Iulus ( or Julius ), founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.

* Atmosfear ( series ), also known as Nightmare, a video oriented boardgame famously known for introducing " The Gatekeeper "

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

* In the science fiction movie series The Matrix, the last human city, known as Zion, is a hyperstructure.

This allows for determination of the amount of a chemical in a material by comparing the results of unknown sample to those of a series known standards.

The series of Syran-built graves, containing crouching corpses, is the best and most representative that is known in the Aegean.

The incantation " Avada Kedavra " is known as the Killing Curse in the " Harry Potter " novel series.

Television stations and networks, particularly in North America, traditionally begin their regular seasons in autumn, with new series and new episodes of existing series debuting mostly during late September ( series that debut outside the fall season are usually known as midseason replacements ).

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

* Nico ( also known as Nicholas ), a TV series for educating children about blind people ( considering television a sort of literature )

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

Here he recorded the series of acoustic songs, including " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and " What to Do ," known as the " Apartment Tapes ," which were released after his death.

In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

** Sharon Valerii, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, known by her call-sign " Boomer "