The impact of this amendment was to reduce the amount of silver that was being held by private citizens ( presumably as a hedge against inflation or collapse of the financial system ) and increase the amount of circulating currency.

Specifically, DoD policy stated that " the medal will be issued only to those taken prisoner by an enemy during armed conflict ," and further states that " hostages of terrorists and persons detained by governments with which the US is not actively engaged in armed conflict are not eligible for the medal .” However, the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal Statute that created an exception to the armed conflict requirement was overlooked in the July 1990 version of the DoD Manual of Military Decorations and Awards, presumably because the 1989 amendment occurred in November, during the staffing window for the 1990 revision to the manual.

The amendment also made reference to a ' landmark building ' north of Albert Hall, which would presumably house these facilities.

An amendment was put forward in 1844 bringing the line to the North Midland at Duffield, presumably via Ashbourne and the Ecclesbourne Valley.

This was the first comprehensive amendment of U. S. general immigration laws designed to face up to the realities of modern refugee situations by stating a clear-cut national policy and providing a flexible mechanism to meet the rapidly shifting developments of today's world policy.

The Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

The Sixth Circuit upheld the amendment a second time, differentiating it from the state-level amendment on the grounds that it was a local government action of the type that Amendment 2 was designed to preempt.

Two of the many possible practices of sustainable agriculture are crop rotation and soil amendment, both designed to ensure that crops being cultivated can obtain the necessary nutrients for healthy growth.

In September 2007, Barbara Boxer, a Senator from California, created an amendment designed to lift the funding conditions put in place by the Mexico City Policy.

This amendment was designed to close a loophole which allowed those running affiliate programs to allow spammers to abuse their programs, and encouraged such businesses to assist the FTC in identifying such spammers.

At the same time, the Jackson-Vanik amendment, signed into law by Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975, after a unanimous vote by both houses of the United States Congress, was designed to leverage trade relations between the U. S. and the USSR, making the United States dependent upon improvements of human rights within the Soviet Union, in particular allowing refuseniks to emigrate ; it added to the Most Favoured Nation status a clause that provided that no countries resisting emigration could be awarded this status.

The congressman co-sponsored, with Republican congressman Mac Thornberry, an amendment to the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill reversing previous bans on disseminating Defense and State Department propaganda in the United States, reversing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, designed to protect U. S. audiences from government misinformation campaigns.

On September 20, 2007, the Senate passed an amendment by Republican John Cornyn III of Texas designed to " strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus ".

In June 1999, he sponsored an amendment to a youth violence bill that allowed school districts to use federal funds to develop curricula which included elements designed to promote and enhance students ' moral character ; the amendment passed 422 — 1.

Although the Enforcement Act had been designed primarily to allow Federal enforcement and prosecution of actions of the Ku Klux Klan and other secret vigilante groups in preventing blacks from voting and murdering them, the Cruikshank court held that the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses applied only to state action, and not to actions of individuals: " The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; but this adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.

In 2006, the UK Parliament had voted an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 that proves guilty a person who " makes, adapts, supplies or offers to supply any article knowing that it is designed or adapted for use in the course of or in connection with an offence under section 1 or 3 the CMA ".

A Government amendment designed to postpone a vote attracted much acrimony.

Counter Cipher Mode with Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol or CCMP ( CCM mode Protocol ) is an encryption protocol designed for Wireless LAN products that implement the standards of the IEEE 802. 11i amendment to the original IEEE 802. 11 standard.

Specifically, ECPA was an amendment to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( the Wiretap Statute ), which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications.

This amendment to the development plans for the city was intended to reinstate some of the plans that were originally made by Walter Burley Griffin when he designed the city in 1912, which had been neglected in the years following Griffin's departure from Canberra, when the Albert Hall was constructed.

Some of MPP ’ s key federal goals include: building support for legislation that would treat marijuana like alcohol under federal law, persuading members of Congress to introduce and support legislation designed to protect medical marijuana patients and providers, monitoring the Department of Justice to ensure that the department honors its pledge to not prosecute individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws, generating media coverage to pressure the National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) to provide marijuana for an FDA-approved study related to PTSD, and lobbying for passage of an amendment to a congressional appropriations bill that would eliminate all funding for the drug czar ’ s office, among others.

In practice, that new Federal Aviation Regulations amendment imposes an operational ceiling of on the majority of newly designed commercial aircraft.

Immediate measures carried out by the government upon taking office included a temporary amendment of the Unemployment Insurance Acts, increasing the State contribution to the Fund, a Development Act authorising grants up to £ 25, 000, 000 and a further £ 25, 000, 000 in guarantees for public works schemes designed to reduce unemployment, a parallel Colonial Development Act authorising grants up to £ 1, 000, 000 a year for schemes in the Colonies, a measure continuing at the existing levels the subsidies under the Housing Acts, which the Conservatives had threatened to reduce, and a removal of the appointed Guardians whom the Conservatives had put in office in place of the elected Boards in Bedwellty, Chester-le-Street, and Westham.

The original proposal to oblige members to declare all benefits above. 100 was not approved, but another amendment designed to exclude members not completing the register from office in the Parliament did go through as did the amendment obliging chairmen of intergroups and other unofficial grouping to declare all forms of financial or secretarial support.

The amendment, was designed to take effect within ninety days of the creation of the FCC and was supported by educators who wanted more radio access.

* Chapters XVI through Chapter XIX deal respectively with XVI: miscellaneous provisions, XVII: transitional security arrangements related to World War II, XVIII: the charter amendment process, and XIX: ratification of the charter.

At any rate, he refused to agree to the deal, and ultimately the Quebec government declined to endorse the constitutional amendment.

After the passage of the 19th amendment liberal feminism was quiet until the 1960s when it awoke during the civil rights movement by realizing that similar to race discrimination there was a great deal of sex discrimination inherent in the system.

In May 1914 O ' Brien and his followers abstained from the final vote passing the Home Rule Act 1914, denouncing it as a " partition deal ", after Sir Edward Carson leader of the Ulster Unionist Party forced through an amendment mandating the partition of Ireland, the Nationalist's confrontation course with Ulster ending in fiasco.

He was forced to deal with a state government that was deeply indebted, even after all debts incurred in support of the Confederacy were abrogated by the new state constitution and amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1890, an amendment to the Morrill Act was passed to deal with the issue of providing steading funding to the land-grant colleges and to prohibit racial discrimination at any of the funded colleges.

Military Order No. 1650 is an amendment to a 1969 military law intended to deal with infiltration from neighboring Arab countries.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

After implementing the Emancipation Proclamation, which did not apply to every state, Lincoln increased pressure on Congress to outlaw slavery throughout the entire nation with a constitutional amendment.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

In the light of the blockage concerning the entry into force of the Ban amendment, Switzerland and Indonesia have launched a “ Country-led Initiative ” ( CLI ) to discuss in an informal manner a way forward to ensure that the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, especially to developing countries and countries with economies in transition, do not lead to an unsound management of hazardous wastes.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

Although there have been disagreements with established EU member nations over some economic issues, such as agricultural quotas and a recent amendment to the gaming law, relations are good.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

In the case of an amendment related to the Office of the Queen, the use of either official language ( subject to section 43 ), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, the amendment must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41.

In 1983, Peter Greyson, an art student, entered Ottawa's National Archives ( known today as Library and Archives Canada ) and poured red paint mixed with glue over a copy of the proclamation of the 1982 constitutional amendment.

Those who opposed the amendment in North America became known as the " Unamended fellowship " and allowed the teaching that God either could not or would not raise those who had no covenant relationship with him.

In monarchies with a written constitution, the position of monarch is a creature of the constitution and could quite properly be abolished through a democratic procedure of constitutional amendment, although there are often significant procedural hurdles imposed on such a procedure ( as in the Constitution of Spain ).

The amendment defines a new PHY and such changes to the MAC as are necessary to support a new frequency allocation ( 950 MHz-956 MHz ) in Japan while coexisting with passive tag systems in the band.

The intent of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the 802. 15. 4-2006 MAC to a ) better support the industrial markets and b ) permit compatibility with modifications being proposed within the Chinese WPAN.

IEEE 802. 15. 4g Smart Utility Networks ( SUN ) Task Group is chartered to create a PHY amendment to 802. 15. 4 to provide a global standard that facilitates very large scale process control applications such as the utility smart-grid network capable of supporting large, geographically diverse networks with minimal infrastructure, with potentially millions of fixed endpoints.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

This amendment comes in discordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for a new presidential election in Lebanon.

In its judgment, the U. S. Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction with respect to Germany's complaint against Arizona due to the eleventh amendment of the U. S. constitution, which prohibits federal courts from hearing lawsuits of foreign states against a U. S. state.

A third electoral amendment has been enacted which guarantees strict-proportionality with respect to votes and seats to parliamentary political groups.

An amendment to the bill by Lord Teverson that would have ensured that " all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in constituencies that are wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly " was defeated by 250 to 221 votes in the House of Lords with 95 % of the aforementioned parties rejecting it.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.