"We want a frank, sincere discussion on all the issues," said Mr. Morales, explaining his differences with the four provinces, where officials approved statutes last week that would give them control over petroleum royalties and other functions, such as creating their own police forces.
In 1993, Michigan approved a statute outlawing assisted suicide.
In Oregon, where a schoolteacher had become Dr. Kevorkian's first assisted suicide patient, state lawmakers in 1997 approved a statute making it legal for doctors to prescribe lethal medications to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
In 1215, when Robert de Courçon approved the statutes of the University of Paris, one of them forbade the arts masters from lecturing on Aristotelian metaphysics and natural science.
The Bishop of Winchester approved the statutes on 16 September 1608, and they constituted a major change in the way the school was run.
Late last year, the Montgomery County Council approved a village statute banning smoking in all public places.
It has passed a constitutional amendment making them possible and approved a "constitutional statute" that creates their autonomous legal framework.
He is the first person charged under the state's antiterrorism statute approved by the Legislature after 9/11.
Seven years later the court approved a Mississippi statute requiring segregation on intrastate carriers in Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway v. Mississippi (1890).
The [relevant] party statute, approved at the 17th party congress, was based on Leninist principles expressed at the 10th party congress.
The Hempstead bill was the third such statute approved on Long Island recently and one of more than 70 passed across the country.
