There is one rather large problem with this theory: Chile's modern seismic building code, drafted to resist earthquakes, was adopted in 1972.
The new bill will tighten the definition to just one characteristic, which would be drafted to include the gadgetry adopted in the latest models of assault rifles such as the "slide-iron stock" that mimics fully automatic weapons, "thumbhole stocks" and "bullet buttons".
The vote on August 30th is to choose 88 members of a constituent assembly, which then has 90 days to draft and adopt a constitution, and to decide whether to call more elections for a parliament or president, or, alternatively, to form a government and elect a president itself.
PRESENTER … May I take it that the assembly wishes to adopt draft resolution A/70/L1 [the post-2015 agenda for sustainable development]?
The Labour MP Rob Marris, who topped the ballot for private members' bills, is to adopt draft legislation giving terminally ill patients the right to die that was drawn up by Lord Falconer.
The dial was set to MSNBC — she'd been following the Olympics — and there came a news report that the Democratic platform-drafting committee had decided to adopt marriage equality as a plank in the 2012 campaign.
ICAN campaigners have descended on New York to lobby member states, dissect the treaty drafts, and persuade delegates to adopt language that will effectively and permanently ban nuclear weapons.
"The education I have received as part of this board has been eye-opening and saddening," Robert Wallach, a panelist, said today at a public meeting to adopt the report, drafted by the authority's staff.
In the absence of standing forums, it took non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and security analysts in Afghanistan ten years of protest and confrontation to convince coalition forces to draft and adopt doctrines that discouraged the use of direct health provision projects as counterinsurgency tools, for example.
World leaders are expected to adopt a draft resolution on the SDGs at the end of September.
