Voters endorsed modifications to Turkey's current constitution, making the military more accountable to civilian courts and giving parliament - the 550-seat Gran National Assembly (Buyuk Millet Meclisi) - more power to appoint judges.
The council unanimously endorsed modifications to the city's municipal code and to the local coastal plan that included a requirement for all businesses in the 100-Year Flood Plain to install flood proofing measures within 90 days of notification by the city.
Standards issued by the IASB are supposed to be endorsed without modification.
At the end, speaker after speaker argued that a list of 13 proposals submitted, along with an ultimatum, to the convention by what was called the Black Caucus, should be endorsed without modification of any kind regardless of the substance of the individual proposals, in a spirit of interracial unity.
David Yarnold, president of the Audubon Society and a former executive at the Environmental Defense Fund, pointed out that even as it accepted money from Monsanto, his group resisted requests to endorse genetic modification of crops.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 — Federal fisheries officials in Seattle on Wednesday endorsed, with minor modifications, a plan for the government's continued operation of the hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Twelve years ago we were presented with the Saudi Peace Initiative, later endorsed (with some modifications) by the Arab League.
These process paths are flight tested, endorsed (with minor modifications) by airlines when they purchase a new aircraft type, and published in procedural manuals and checklists.
The House passed the measure early this month, and last week the Senate Finance Committee endorsed it with minor modifications, paving the way for Senate approval early next year.
One way policy is affected by such exclusion can be seen in New York, where the Writers Guild of America, East has endorsed and lobbied for modifications to the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit to include television writers and directors who are women or people of color.
The influence of the film academy's action, Woodburn said, can be seen in policy, notably in New York where the Writers Guild of America, East endorsed and lobbied for modifications to the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit to give tax breaks to producers and studios that use writers of color and women. .
