Experts said that a typical executive-branch employee who violated the endorsement rule could face significant disciplinary action, including a multi-day suspension and loss of pay.
Specifically, it is a conflict between an athlete's personal endorsements and rules about uniforms and gear that must be worn while representing the national team at events like the world championships and the Olympics.
To experts on family law, the ruling was an endorsement of legal rules that generally declare that, unless they are abusive, parents speak for their children in deciding where and with whom the children live.
An endorsement of the "rule by law" or the "law and order" model — rather than the real, substantive rule of law — does not merely fall short of its objective.
That was up from 6percentt in the previous year, but it was still no ringing endorsement of black rule.
The contest has narrowed to the point where several pollsters say the president may win an endorsement of his rule.
This ringing endorsement of the rule of law reminds us that despite the inordinate dangers we face in the fight against terrorism, we should never succumb to the temptation to abandon our most cherished principles.
But on Friday, amid a huge spending campaign in poor neighborhoods, the contest had narrowed to the point where several pollsters said the president might win an endorsement of his rule.
India, meanwhile, would go ahead with elections in Kashmir set for this autumn and call the results an endorsement of its rule, leaving Pakistan in the cold and General Musharraf looking like the dictator who lost Kashmir.The general can ill-afford this.
To remedy this and to respect the unity of our nature, he proposed giving the new clergy a role in medicine, considering for example that there is no better endorsement of a rule of hygiene than a religious decree.
