Legislation enacted years ago give it sole, veto-proof authority to write the state's hunting rules.
Both bills are important, but neither amounts to the sort of comprehensive gun control that other Western nations enacted years ago.
Argentina, Chile and Peru have nullified or are disregarding legal amnesties enacted years ago to protect military officers who committed wide-scale rights abuses.
If this change had been enacted years ago, billions of additional dollars would have flowed into the Social Security trust fund, enabling it to pay future retirees long after 2042, now forecast as the depletion date.
There is one simple reform that should have been enacted years ago, but probably has not been because bank IT systems are creaking after being cobbled together from various mergers and acquisitions.
What have you all been doing?' The law should have been enacted years ago, and this made us wonder, what does the F.D.A. even do?" In Blakely, trouble at the plant has hit the black community especially hard, said Benjamin Cawthon, a former city councilman and community organizer.
Reforms to repair the system's finances should have been enacted years ago.
Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II.
Those other policies may be less conspicuous now, because many were enacted years ago and they have long since been absorbed into CBO's and other organizations' budget projections.
Though he has been aggressive, it shouldn't be missed that Duncan is pushing middle-of-the-road, common-sense reforms, the sort that should have been enacted years ago.
Proactive utilities like North Carolina's Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), which enacted year-round conservation requirements after an earlier severe drought in 2002, activated additional restrictions as soon as the potential severity of the current drought became apparent.
