This puts us in a world of topsy-turvy, in which many of the usual rules of economics cease to hold.
Indeed, when sportsmen wake up to this garish incongruity, either the N.R.A. leadership will start making sense or the organization will cease to hold our attention.
Under EU rules, commission officials have a duty to "behave with integrity and discretion" once they have ceased to hold high office.
Aleksey Arakcheyev was for a time secretary of the committee, but he did not cease to be the strongest man in Russia under the tsar when he ceased to hold this formal office.
"If those conditions cease to hold, and we anticipate changes in the outlook, then of course we will respond to that," he told the committee's chairwoman, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York.
And the government will cease to hold metadata on all phone calls made by Americans within the country.Some of the proposed changes can be made using the president's executive authority.
The investigation centred on whether Barroso had violated the EU's code of conduct that requires senior officials to "behave with integrity and discretion" once they have ceased to hold high office.
The wall burst open simply because there was nothing left to prop it up — the Moscow Center had ceased to hold, the entire edifice of fear and lies was exhausted, the police were no longer prepared to shoot.
Mr. Gore also, as a senator in 1991, declared that "the only way we can hope for long-term relief from Saddam Hussein is if Saddam Hussein ceases to hold power, and if his Baathist regime is dismantled as well".
