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Among other offences, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, who are cousins, burned alive Muslim women and children during the Bosnian war in 1992-95.The European Comadesion made a concession by approving a large state-aid programme for Poland's shipyard in Gdansk.

Having vowed during his campaign to be tougher on China, Mr. Bush has angered China with his proposed missile defense system, by approving a large package of arms sales to Taiwan, by allowing the Taiwanese president to make a very public visit to the United States and by meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the White House.

A12 Montana Mine Approved Federal and state officials completed a 14-year review by approving plans for a large copper and silver mine in habitat for threatened wildlife in northwestern Montana.

The compromise retreats from a partisan bill fashioned by House Democrats and largely mirrors legislation crafted by prominent members of both parties in the Senate and approved by a large bipartisan majority, enough to overcome a veto, in that chamber.

In California, voters approved by a large margin a drug law reform measure requiring mandatory drug treatment, instead of jail time, for offenders convicted of simple drug possession.

The Senate approved by a large margin a plan to give the phone companies immunity and, at the same time, to give the N.S.A. freer rein to conduct foreign-based eavesdropping operations.

"We are therefore likely to arrive at a situation where the constitution is approved by a large majority of states and people - but not the grand slam of 25 victories formally required for ratification".

Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner for the single market said the year's salary ceiling - or payouts equal to two years' salary only if approved by a large majority of a bank's shareholders - was set in stone.

Mr Carmona was persuaded to decree the immediate closure of the National Assembly and the Supreme Court, and tore up Mr Chavez's constitution, which had been approved by a large majority in a referendum in December 1999.

Several dissident lawmakers complained to the court that Parliament did not have the right to delegate decision-making to the panel, whose nine members were approved by a large majority on Wednesday.

These and other analyses generated the evidence that supported a legislative reform that established a system of social protection in health, which was approved by a large majority of the Mexican Congress in 2003.