"It'd be nice to issue something that fans would love and cherish.
"In the face of overwhelming industry opposition, she would not compromise to issue something weak," said the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, who runs the council.
The Metro-North press release lends credence to her concern: customers, it says, will be "self-monitoring," though conductors will be authorized to issue something called a "shh card".
"Now that he's put the committee through all this, to issue something as mild as a reprimand would look terrible," said Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who is executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
But the commission could easily sidestep making any recommendations to Congress or invoking its regulatory powers, and instead issue something along the lines of an analysis of its findings.
But in the contract the company can issue something called a gagging clause, which means it has the right to stop a trial early but still publish the results.
Richard L. Thornburgh, who was attorney general when the honest-services law was passed, said he expected the Supreme Court to issue "something fairly sweeping" since it had taken on so many honest-services cases.
If yes, they must support the power of the courts to issue something akin to a fire alarm which would make people aware of executive abuse of civil liberties, and enable this newly empowered people to hold a rights-abusing executive to account.
They therefore developed various versions of non-cognitivism, which hold that moral judgements are not true or false but express attitudes (emotivism) or issue something like imperatives (prescriptivism).
Richard Thornburgh, a former United States Attorney General, has remarked that he expects the court to issue "something fairly sweeping...without doing violence to proper law enforcement".
What may happen in Doha is that the summit could issue something that would appease Oman and its desire to have the freedom to act in the way it sees conducive to removing obstacles in Gulf-Iran relations.
