Reducing the argument to mere difference of legislative opinion is not only false but also an insult to the millions of people in this state who have worked so tirelessly on the recall.
More routinely, however, diplomatic success requires using interviews, press conferences, social media, and speeches to address and shape public and legislative opinion simultaneously in multiple countries, including the United States.
Under Ashi's leadership the Academy, which had been closed since 309, was revived, and the gigantic task of collating scattered notes, sayings, legislative opinions, and homiletic lore was conducted for more than 30 years.
DOCUMENT: Legislative Counsel opinion on Science Center parking lots.
According to a Legislative Counsel opinion provided to state Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood), the requirement was adopted because of complaints that Coliseum events were "taking up all the parking space at Exposition Park".
Given this and other recent opinions, the Second Circuit would likely defer to Connecticut's legislative judgment.
DOCUMENT: Legislative Counsel's opinion on Science Center parking.
As we entered the 2011 legislative session, public opinion in heavily Mormon Utah had shifted dramatically.
The key part reads:[This House] acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically-elected lawmakers; and supports the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.So (deep breath).
"The patterns are: public opinion down, legislative changes in many laws and death sentences and executions have been down for two years running," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, a group critical of the death penalty that this week issued a year-end compilation of national and statewide statistics.
Some gun control advocates think that aggressive lobbying and funding from gun rights groups explains the discrepancy between public opinion and legislative action.
