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A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.
The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.
Other communities -- the ones to be aided most by the Senate bill -- have had difficulty starting such stations because of the high initial cost of equipment.
The British government, concerned about the threat of unemployment in the shipbuilding industry, had put through a bill to give Cunard loans and grants totaling $50,400,000 toward the $84,000,000 cost of a new 75,000-ton passenger liner.
They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.
After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.
For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.
While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.
Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled.
Debate on the all-important foreign-aid bill, with its controversial long-range proposals, had just begun on the Senate floor at the weekend.
Perhaps he had known then where that hundred dollar bill had come from and where it was taking his wife.
When she had drained the last of the bottle and paid her bill, she came directly to my table and said:
On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.
To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.
This gave the cloner, through the Oki phone, the ability to use the mobile phone service of the legitimate subscriber whose phone was cloned just as if that phone had been physically stolen instead, except that the subscriber was not without his or her phone and was not aware that the phone had been cloned — at least until that subscriber received his or her next bill.
However, passage of a bill by the state assembly alone does not change the law and the state senate and governor had not yet endorsed the bill.
" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.
The bill, however, was riddled with complexities and had to be withdrawn.

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Any tax bill also will revive allegations that some of his followers have been using their administration affiliations imprudently to profit themselves.
As of 2011, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature to end the prohibition on Sunday liquor sales.
It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.
As of 2010 the bill has not yet been passed by the Chamber of Deputies.
Congressmen Dr Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on " Free Software in Public Administration ".
" The bill was referred to committee on first reading in the Senate and has been there ever since.
Though the idea for a bill of rights had been suggested at the end of the constitutional convention, the delegates wanted to go home and thought the suggestion unnecessary.
Madison objected to a specific bill of rights for several reasons: he thought it was unnecessary, since it purported to protect against powers that the federal government had not been granted ; that it was dangerous, since enumeration of some rights might be taken to imply the absence of other rights ; and that at the state level, bills of rights had proven to be useless paper barriers against government powers.
The items of the " long bill " appear to have been derived from his work.
While the bill was silent on this issue, slavery would have been prohibited under the terms of the Missouri Compromise.
The Mets will keep a black jersey in their rotation for one more season, along with the solid black cap with blue / white / orange logo crest ; the two-tone black cap with blue bill and blue / orange crest has been eliminated.
The Congresswoman has been introducing a version of the bill since 1994.
" Presidents have been criticized for making signing statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understand a bill or plan to execute it.
If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.
This power may not be applied to a money bill, a bill to amend the Constitution, or an urgent bill the time for the consideration of which has been abridged in the Seanad.

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Even if something must significantly reduce the risk of error, it is not clear why justification is what must fill the bill.
The bill introduced by Wilson and passed by the House significantly lowered tariff rates, in accordance with Democratic platform promises, and dropped the tariff to zero on iron ore, coal, lumber and wool, which angered American producers.
It is significantly larger, with longer bristles and larger bill.
Moroccan birds have a significantly longer bill than Turkish birds of the same sex.
After signing a controversial bill to ban most abortions in early 2006, Rounds approval rating dropped significantly, but recovered substantially by summer.
In 1994, Peace authored a series of criminal justice reform measures signed by Governor Pete Wilson that significantly increased penalties for violent criminals, including the " one strike and you're out " bill aimed at violent sex offenders.
The Lesser roadrunner resembles the Greater Roadrunner ( Geococcyx californianus ) in appearance and habit but is smaller and has a significantly shorter bill.
Ontario's electoral map was significantly altered in 1996, when Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris introduced a bill to reduce the number of members in the legislature from 130 to 103.
It was reported that Higgins was “ proposing something unprecedented in this era of $ 1. 3 trillion annual deficits: a $ 1. 25 trillion, five-year plan to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges, railroads, ports and airports .” The bill, entitled the Nation Building Here at Home Act and based on research by the New America Foundation, would cost significantly more than President Obama's $ 787 billion stimulus package.
* As main memory is expensive compare to secondary memory, this technique helps significantly reduce the bill of material ( BOM ) cost in smart phones for example.
The bill, which was passed by the Wisconsin Legislature, significantly changed the collective bargaining process for most public employees in Wisconsin.
According to his press release, “ Absent this bill, California ’ s assault weapon ban is significantly weakened.
On July 7, 2009, he for the second time in a week vetoed a budget bill, calling it " out of balance ", his plan being to more significantly fix the budget gap in Illinois.
He was significantly, and controversially, involved in the campaign against abortion, co-sponsoring an ultimately unsuccessful private member's bill introduced by his friend and colleague, James White, MP for Glasgow Pollok, to tighten the requirements of the Abortion Act 1967.
On 14 June, the party announced the beginning of a Yellow Ribbon Campaign to promote a petition aimed at forcing the bill to be withdrawn, or at least significantly amended.
On 14 June, Beddoes announced the beginning of a Yellow Ribbon Campaign to promote a petition aimed at forcing the bill to be withdrawn, or at least significantly amended.
The original provisions in the bill were indeed extremely stringent, and caused potential problems for other businesses, but were significantly amended and now only affect the canvassing they were intended to prevent.

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