The privacy board, which briefed Obama on its findings before his speech last week, recommends instead that the bulk collection ought to be ended outright, owing to its assessed lack of necessity and dubious legality.
In a letter to Parliament responding to formal questions by lawmakers asking the details surrounding the return this week of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin said that Dutch protection for her in the United States, where she has lived and worked for a year, had always been a temporary measure and was extended twice in the last year before it was ended outright.
With the political wind at their backs, and the finish line clearly in sight, lawmakers decimated an effort to end outright gambling by the nation's largest banks and sabotaged a plan to rein in rampant speculation in derivatives -- the out-of-control market that brought down AIG and necessitated the bailouts of every major U.S. bank.
Last night's Packers-Seahawks game ended in outright controversy.
By Reeves Wiedeman September 24 , 2012Last night's Packers-Seahawks game ended in outright controversy.
The play, in other words, depends heavily on three lead actors working like a chamber group to find the right notes in scenes that veer among black comedy, farce, satire, pathos and, especially at the end, outright tragedy.
It also could diminish, if not end outright, the single biggest sticking point in relations between Russia and the West, Moscow's dogged opposition to NATO's plans to expand into the Baltics, bringing the alliance more decisively to Russia's borders.
To that end, Smith, a Microsoft veteran, in recent years has made efforts to bring more transparency and structure to electronic surveillance, rather than trying to end it outright.
However, the FishFight campaign's position acknowledges ending discards outright is not simple: Re-writing the Common Fisheries Policy is going to be an enormously complicated business, and unfortunately there is no one easy solution to ending discards.
Yes, personal reinvention is a dangerous game, and the reader soon discovers – through a narrator who knows more than his characters do and enjoys spoilers – that the whole project will eventually end in outright failure.
The activism Web site Change.org is awash in petitions for doing so in the U.S., either by extending daylight-saving time as the Australians recommend, ending it outright, or moving the time shift to the middle of the following Monday.
