Meantime, industry organizations like the Advertising Council and the American Association of Advertising Agencies are beginning to coordinate a response -- perhaps tardily, according to some executives who had sought action before now.
For Mr. Cuomo, the debate over passing a new abortion law presents an opportunity to appeal to women as well as to liberals, who have sought action in Albany without success since Eliot Spitzer made a similar proposal when he was governor.
Ominously, Charles Schumer, a Democratic senator from New York, is still busily pressing ahead with legislation designed to force China into a significant revaluation.Mr Schumer has sought congressional action against Chinese trade policies since 2004.
"The attorney general's office should have gotten off their hands and dealt with this two weeks ago," said Robert Tyler, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a group that has sought similar action from the court.
As The Huffington Post reported last month, the U.S. has sought WTO enforcement action against India over a government policy that requires local sourcing for solar energy technology.
For years, South Africa has sought to block international action against Mr. Mugabe's government and, as recently as June 19, refused to join an American effort at the United Nations to condemn the political attacks in Zimbabwe.
Born of a pernicious divide in the nation along the lines of race, gender and religion that has seen the powerful hold down the powerless in contravention of the principles of a free and equal society, affirmative action has sought to redress the wrongs and correct our course.
An MP has sought assurances on what action UK authorities may take if cancer patient Ashya King returns home.
For more than five decades, affirmative action has sought to eliminate unlawful discrimination for all marginalized people.
China has sought through words and actions to extend its territorial claims beyond the 12-nautical-mile limit accepted through customary international law and codified by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
