In most democracies, whether or not a woman has ever had sex before is considered irrelevant in deciding whether she consented to the act under consideration.
At one point the president expressed frustration with the welter of demands on Syria, noting that the Syrian Accountability Act under consideration in Congress to strengthen sanctions was already more or less in place.
The Quebec Act, under consideration since 1773, removed all the territory and fur trade between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from possible colonial jurisdiction and awarded it to the province of Quebec.
We have nothing to do with the policy, wisdom, justice, or fairness of the act under consideration; those questions are for the consideration of those to whom the state has intrusted its legislative power, and their determination of them is not subject to review or criticism by this court.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under consideration by the court was the centerpiece of the Obama administration's domestic legislative agenda, and now may play a crucial role in the 2012 presidential election.
When the Act was under consideration in the Congress, that body was aware of the increasingly precarious financial condition of a number of private transportation companies across the country, and it feared that communities might be left without adequate mass transportation.
But lawyers for Ikea said a state environmental-quality-review act is under consideration and would apply not only to New Rochelle but other communities.
I think that the act now under consideration, and kindred ones, are intended to promote the same liberty of action for the employee, as the employer confessedly enjoys.
She is placing her hope in the RECLAIM Act, now under consideration in a House committee, which would invest a billion dollars in cleaning up mines in ways that support new industries, including tourism and sustainable farming.
