But at least it's not as bad as Beijing.As the National People's Congress opened there this week, Chinese spokesmen reiterated that 2017 is to be the year when China keeps a promise to Hong Kong made in the Basic Law, the constitution it adopted on its reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997: that Hong Kong's chief executive will be chosen by "universal suffrage".
Under the rule for considering the competing Violence Against Women Act bills the House adopted on Wednesday, it will first consider the House Republican bill as an amendment to the Senate measure, giving opponents of the Senate approach a chance to go on record.
If adopted on June 10, it will direct hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding to the district's highest need schools, where segregated students are fighting to gain the skills for a rapidly changing economy.
When the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was adopted on January 16 , 1786 it formed a blueprint for what would become the basis for the protection of religious liberty enshrined in our Constitution.
They are the same people who attack the whistleblowers and this is a position the [British] Financial Services Authority at least has adopted on legal advice: it has been advised that the confidentiality of banking and bankers takes primacy over the public information disclosure act.
Formally adopted on September 17, 1787, it has long served as the bulwark of American freedom.
Adopted on 8 December 1955, it was unveiled at the Château de la Muette in Paris on 13 December 1955.
It was adopted on December 15 , 1791 as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
In addition, it has been adopted on a large scale, and it is on the way to becoming a taken-for-granted part of the social landscape in many countries.
This method of "peeling back the retellings of the story" -- much as one might eat an artichoke -- has been adopted on the ground that it will eventually lead to "some original, uncontaminated 'true' story of what happened".
