Referring to note sheets where officials comment on and approve opinions, file notations reflect the factors that shape government decisions and offer a transparent view into the decision-making process.
"What fun is buying somebody an election if you have no elected official to share the moment with?" "Please approve this opinion, as more money is needed to influence voters opinions.
Prado, swayed by public opinion, approved the presidential candidacy in 1945 of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, a lawyer from Arequipa with liberal leanings, who represented a coalition of middle- and upper-class elements.
The semi-official Fars news agency instead focused on Morsi's call for recognition of the Palestinian state and the state-run Irna news agency ran an article saying that Egyptian public opinion approved of his visit to the Iranian capital.
The New York Times reported recently that Alberto Gonzales, as attorney general in 2005, approved a secret opinion that said such tactics as head slapping, simulated drowning and exposure to frigid temperatures, separately or in combination, did not constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners.
All participants were white Caucasians and gave their written informed consent for the study; the Bioethics Committee of the Medical University of Białystok having earlier approved its protocol (Opinion No. RI-003/43/2006).
Last year, the IRS even set up a "pre-approved opinion letter program," opening a two-year window through which promoters of the technique can provide clients, on an industrial scale, with a "favorable opinion letter" from the IRS.
British retailer Marks & Spencer should be allowed to deduct some of its foreign losses from its British tax bill, a senior European Union court adviser said Thursday in a legal opinion that if approved by an EU court could set a legal precedent and cost EU governments billions of euros in tax revenue.
According to documents and e-mails from 2005, Mr. Comey expressed concern about the methods but also gave his approval to a legal opinion approving them.
But the F.B.I. officials said agents were rebuffed and were told that senior Pentagon officials, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the defense secretary, with the backing of Justice Department legal opinions, had approved the treatment.
Bradbury, along with John Yoo and Jay Bybee, were the key authors of documents that came to be known as the "torture memos" ― legal opinions that approved the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques". .
