In Syria, emergency laws giving the police sweeping powers have been in effect since 1963.
Four others were pardoned and a moratorium on the death penalty has been in effect since 2000.
The penalty is the largest assessed under the Plant Protection Act, which has been in effect since 2000, Bobby Acord, the administrator of the Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said.
The system has been in effect since 2005 and covers about 11,000 power plants, industrial facilities and airlines in 31 countries.
Finally, on October 1 the Constitutional Court announced the abandonment of reforms, in effect since 2006, that had shifted some powers from the president to the prime minister.
After a wave of kidnappings, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the moratorium on capital punishment, in effect since 2000, lifted in December, just months before the country is to hold a presidential election.
Illinois' civil-unions law, in effect since June of 2011, is one of the most inclusive in the nation, and was considered a very significant political achievement eighteen months ago, when it went into effect.
Under a deal that has been in effect since 2003 Webcasters with annual revenues of less than $1.25 million pay 10percentt of their revenues or 7percentt of expenses to satisfy copyright laws.
*Once the fire spread, suppression tactics that were used did not comply with federal standards in effect since 1995, a transgression that aided the fire's growth and threatened public safety.
Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president for labor relations, said the clubs' ability to act on their own was what legitimized the system, which has been in effect since 2000.
Seymour Budcoff, the de partment's Medicaid director, said experience upstate, where coinsurance has been in effect since July 1, indicated that more physicians and other pro viders of medical service would leave the complex program.
