The government dropped clauses that would have transferred executive powers from president to prime minister (the Supreme Court had said they would require approval by referendum).
Readers who know only Petterson's most successful (also more straightforward and less interesting) novel, "Out Stealing Horses," which won many prizes when it appeared in English translation, in 2005, might be surprised to encounter these run-on sentences, tripping over their own dropped clauses, pricked with intermittence, properly punctuated but curiously unpunctual.
However it was forced to drop clause 43 of the bill, a proposal on orphan works which had been opposed by photographers.
Drop clauses in the public bodies bill that would allow the government to sell off all of England's forests.
Labour must drop clauses 11-18 of the digital economy bill, which would allow thousands of families to be cut off the internet".
Welcoming the decision to drop clauses 51 and 52 from the bill, Bob Satchwell, executive director of the Society of Editors, said: "When we met the attorney he said it would be wrong in principle for a member of the government to have power to order media organisations to take down material.
The proposed bill had initially given a wife the right to veto the husband's choice, but male members of parliament overcame party divisions to push through a text that dropped this clause.
But photographers and artists celebrated after the government dropped a clause that would have allowed "orphan works" – whose owner cannot be located – to be used commercially at minimal cost.
(The existence of this framing clause is an additional reason to drop Article 68, which uses the much more limiting wording "rulings of Shariah").
BP dropped the clauses, which Mr. Hayward referred to as a "misstep," but not without facing widespread public outrage and a ruling in Federal District Court.
