Of course, in the UK we already have a longstanding stamp duty on incorporated company share transactions of 0.5%, raising billions for the exchequer – so the concept is not as foreign as the chancellor might make out.
Hours later, the Disney board relieved the company's longstanding boss, Michael Eisner, of his duties as chairman after 43% of shareholders withheld their support for his re-election.
Stand Your Ground laws do away with the longstanding legal concept that there's a "duty to retreat" – that the sane and sensible thing to do when confronted with a "suspicious" situation is to get the heck out of there.
The Trayvon Martin killing has brought some much-needed attention to Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which did away with the longstanding legal principle that there is a "duty to retreat" from dangerous situations, and lowered the standard for using lethal force in response to a perceived threat.
The article by Michael Kamber, an independent photographer and journalist working in Iraq for The Times, and Tim Arango, who writes about the media, highlighted a longstanding tension between journalists who feel a duty to report war in all its aspects and a military determined to protect its own.
Mr. Tacopina recently defended Lillo Brancato Jr., the former actor who was charged in the killing of an off-duty officer, and the strain on the longstanding relationship showed at the end of a day of jury deliberations.
The ethical foundations of the duty to provide care are grounded in several longstanding ethical principles.
They threaten public safety by eliminating the longstanding legal requirement that someone sensing a threat has a reasonable "duty to retreat" from perceived danger before resorting to deadly force.
It proposed fixes for longstanding concerns about disparities in treatment and benefits at Department of Defense facilities, for active-duty military personnel and the Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, which treat the retired.
Martin F. Horn, the probation commissioner, said he decided last year to change a longstanding departmental policy, which prohibited all but a handful of officers from carrying guns on duty, to allow most officers to carry a concealed weapon.
