While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

While his lieutenants and the House sergeant-at-arms left the chamber to collect absent members in an attempt to rally enough votes for Cannon, the Speaker's allies initiated a legislative block in the form of a point of order debate.

While having relinquished some of his formerly absolute power, the Prince of Monaco remains head of state and retains most of the country's governing power ; however, the principality's judicial and legislative bodies may operate independent of his control.

While electoral results do not necessarily translate into legislative seats, the Liberal Democrats can exert influence if there is a situation such as a hung parliament.

While the Assembly was in suspension, due to issues involving the main parties and the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), its legislative powers were exercised by the UK government, which effectively had power to legislate by decree.

While the other colonies all held the idea of colonial rights as paramount, they were split between those who sought legislative equality with Britain and those who instead favored independence and a break from the Crown and its excesses.

While the amendment did not become law, a version of it appears in the Conference Report as an explanatory text about the legislative history and purposes of the bill.

While this interpretive mode continues throughout all three stages of his teachings, a shift takes place where his emphasis moves to philosophical elucidation and finally to legislative pronouncements.

While the ON had competed in some local elections since 1970, at its second congress in June 1972 it decided to establish a new political party to contest the 1973 legislative elections.

While the snap 1988 legislative elections saw a return to two-ballot majority voting, the FN was also hurt by the limited campaign period and the depart of many notables.

While England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland diverge in the more detailed rules of common law and equity, and while there are certain fields of legislative competence devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and London, there are substantive fields of law which apply across the United Kingdom.

While stating that " discrimination ... is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair ," section 9 also contains the provision that, " to promote the achievement of equality, legislative and other measures designed to protect or advance persons, or categories of persons, disadvantaged by unfair discrimination may be taken.

While Gandhi was in prison, Rajaji led the group of " No-Changers ", individuals against contesting elections for the Imperial Legislative Council and other provincial legislative councils, in opposition to the " Pro-changers " who advocated council entry.

While a majority of members is often the quorum for legislative bodies, often ordinary societies ( voluntary associations ) will have a smaller quorum.

While Nelson slept in his office in Madison to carry out his legislative and professional career, Nicholina and the newborn Ida stayed with her family in Koshkonong.

While the left-wing opposition organised itself in proposing a Common Programme before the 1973 legislative election, Pompidou widened out his " presidential majority " by including the Centrist pro-European parties.

While TNS is a national for-profit advocacy group for Naturism, NAC is a non-profit donor-supported organization that promotes and defends naturist interests in the courts, before legislative bodies, at universities, and to local business communities.

While the United States ( and some other systems of government ) has three branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial — Islamic states had two — the sultan and ulama.

While Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh approved the pacts swiftly, due to plans already being in place at the time of legislative approval, debate within Philadelphia's city leadership carried on as Pittsburgh opened their stadiums ( PNC Park for the Pirates and Heinz Field for the Steelers ) in 2001.

While the AFL sought to outlaw " yellow dog contracts ," to limit the courts ' power to impose " government by injunction " and to obtain exemption from the antitrust laws that were being used to criminalize labor organizing, the courts reversed what few legislative successes the labor movement won.

While voluntary euthanasia had previously been condoned officially in the Netherlands and the US state of Oregon, the act was the first time that a legislative assembly passed a law explicitly legalising euthanasia.

While in office Pennoyer declared without authority that the Oregon Supreme Court lacked the power to invalidate legislative acts on constitutional grounds.

While the uses and laws vary from state to state, the general form is for residents of the town or school district to gather once a year and act as a legislative body, voting on operating budgets, laws and other matters for the community's operation over the following 12 months.

While considered a saint in most other branches of Christianity, Clement's veneration is very limited, although the Universal Catholic Church's cathedral in Dallas is dedicated to him.

25, page 169 ), " While Affiliates and Committees have over the years and still are able to approach all branches of their governments, the Incorporated ( International ) Association was prevented from seeking legislation in the United States lest it lose its tax exempt status.

While branches can be nearly horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, the majority of trees have upwardly diagonal branches.

While perch-hunting, the often work their way gradually down from the canopy on down the branches and, if not successful in find prey in its initial foray, will fly or circle back up to the top of the trees to work them again.

While the main canal was opened in 1810, some branches were operating before this and others added afterwards.

While part of the Indo-European family, they do not belong to any established branch ( like the Romance, Indo-Iranian, Slavic or Germanic branches ), but instead form independent branches of their own.

While other branches of Hasidism focused primarily on the idea that " God desires the heart ," Shneur Zalman argued that God also desires the mind, and that without the mind the heart was useless.

While Beetle Bailey's unit is Company A, one running gag is that the characters are variously seen in different branches of the Army, such as artillery, armor, infantry and paratroops.

While foraging, this agile family may hang upside down on branches ( although this behaviour is not thought to occur in the tit-warblers ) and even manipulate branches and leaves in order to locate hidden food.

While men's hakama can be worn on both formal and informal occasions, except as part of martial arts wear, women rarely wear hakama except at graduation ceremonies and for traditional Japanese sports such as kyudo, some branches of aikido and kendo.

While other branches of Islam generally focus on exoteric aspects of religion, Sufism is mainly focused on the direct perception of truth or God through mystic practices based on divine love.

While Gilgamesh thus distracts and tricks this spirit of the cedar forest, the fifty unmarried young men he has brought on the adventure are felling cedar timber, stripping it of its branches and laying it “ in many piles on the hillside ,” ready to be taken away.

While in power, both groups had divided themselves into moderate and radical branches.

* Norrbottens regemente ( I 19 ) ( While designated as infantry, the regiment is responsible for the training of most army branches in the Northern Sweden ) Boden

While divided into the Ise branch, it is actually a mixture of the two branches.

While tail-chasing, they pursue a bird closely in flight while twisting between trees, vines and branches, a skill that requires both considerable speed and great agility.

While most branches of Wicca understand the Goddess to have one Consort, in Feri She has two: the Divine Twins.

While the World AG Fellowship has a statement of faith which outlines the basic beliefs which unify the various branches of the movement, each national AG denomination formulates its own doctrinal statements.

While at Heidelberg he published a zoological monograph on the sharks and rays, in conjunction with his master Müller, and in 1846 his famous Manual of Rational Pathology began to appear ; this marked the beginning of a new era in pathological study, since in it physiology and pathology were treated, in Henle's own words, as branches of one science, and the facts of disease were systematically considered with reference to their physiological relations.

While the political establishment's main branches welcomed the news of Codreanu's sentencing, the Iron Guard organized a retaliation attack targeting the National Peasant Party's Virgil Madgearu, who had become known for expressing his opposition to the movement's extremism ( Madgearu managed to escape the violence unharmed ).