It was a way to acquire standing and to defend themselves against those who teased them for being small or poor or foreign.
Judge Motz noted that under Virginia's theory, "a state could acquire standing to challenge any federal law merely by enacting a statute – even an utterly unenforceable one – purporting to prohibit the application of the federal law".
Sidelined in the merger game since its failed bid for MCI Inc., Qwest Communications could end up acquiring assets, being acquired or standing alone in the fast-consolidating telecommunications industry.
An inverse relationship was previously observed, albeit not with a combined step and stand training; completely spinalized cats that were taught only to stand acquired an excellent standing ability, but their stepping ability was very poor and vice versa [10].
Greed, one of the seven deadly sins, has now acquired social standing, and its commercials fund television programmes.
On the back of its economic growth, newly acquired international standing and domestic public health record, Brazil has set out to expand its South-South cooperation in the health sector and in the specific field of HIV/AIDS [ 1].
Harvard at the time was a phoenix rising and its dean, David Linn Edsall, could truly report to his trustees that "There can be little doubt that the school has acquired the standing of being the best place in the country and perhaps anywhere for advanced training in research and for advanced training of teaching and research personnel" (8).
He says it would be weakened further if same-sex partnerships were to acquire quasi-legal standing.
In a recent memoir, the Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff reflects on why it is vital for politicians to acquire and retain standing.
But Roe, however imperfect (however human) is a serious, good-faith effort to identify the point when new life acquires some standing of its own.
