Mr. Velella is not alone among legislators who mix their public and private interests, but his record demonstrates how easy it is to dance around the Legislature's feeble rules of conduct.
On the other hand, those are just some of the states of the sponsors of a Senate resolution (S.J. Res 6) that would nullify the relatively feeble rules the FCC approved on Dec. 21, 2010 which allow for a more or less open Internet for wired connections, but a decidedly less open Internet for wireless.
But it was $122, and I just plain old refuse to pay more than $40 for sweats — my one feeble rule.
Businessmen and officials are still being assassinated in the streets, endemic corruption and a feeble rule of law choke new businesses, and there's a worrisome number of Mr. Putin's former K.G.B. comrades in high places.
The reasons are hardly a state secret: the yawning wealth gap, lack of a social safety net for the needy, and feeble rule of law continue to undermine the happiness index as well as Party leaders' confidence in their sustained grip on power.
C. 238 BCE 205 BCE Ptolemy IV Philopator, ( Greek: "Loving His Father") (born c. 238 bce died 205 bce) Macedonian king of Egypt (reigned 221 205 bc), under whose feeble rule, heavily influenced by favourites, much of Ptolemaic Syria was lost and native uprisings began to disturb the internal stability of Egypt.
Human rights advocates and diplomats now worry that some of the same paramilitary groups responsible for the war's worst abuses have resurfaced as vigilante patrols, singling out the police and judges who try to enforce the feeble rule of law against rampant crime.
Today's federal appeals court ruling in a suit by Verizon against the Federal Communications Commission's already feeble network neutrality rules is only the latest evidence.
My bet is that even the feeble Basel III rules will be watered down, country by country, through a hundred amendments and delays.
CAIRO — The Egyptian military consolidated its control on Sunday over what it has called a democratic transition from nearly three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule, dissolving the feeble Parliament, suspending the Constitution and calling for elections in six months in sweeping steps that echoed protesters' demands.
Gov. George Pataki, the power behind that wing, has sent word that this primary system works just fine, asserting that a few feeble changes in the outrageous qualifying rules amount to real reform.
