President Bush promised to work to persuade Congress to revoke the obsolete Jackson-Vanik legislation, which threatens economic sanctions against Russia because of emigration policies not followed since the Soviet era, but so far he has failed.
Six years later, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lovings challenged the decision, a landmark legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court before it was unanimously overturned, rendering the last vestiges of American anti-miscegenation legislation obsolete.
The hospital called in the Quinlan & Francis Terry practice to provide a classical scheme to replace a little-loved structure erected with war reparations funds in the 1950s and rendered obsolete by recent legislation demanding a greater ratio of bathrooms to beds in care homes.
The referendum legislation is obsolete since both votes have already been held, resulting in the creation of the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
Politicians who hung on to segregation became obsolete as civil rights legislation went into effect, and whether or not the United Reformed Church Of Hating Fags wants to admit it, gay rights will become this generations great fight for living in a free, humane society.
During the three centuries of its existence, this council enacted a massive amount of legislation, though much grew obsolete and became a dead letter.
After that debacle, Congress enacted legislation to improve election administration and replace obsolete voting machines.
This was not the actual intent of the legislation; Congress noted in the act that silver was not being coined, and eliminated a practice thought obsolete.
New federal guidelines, along with legislation given a strong chance to pass in Congress next year, will probably combine to make paperless voting machines obsolete, the officials say.
Subsequent new legislation, especially that issued in the later 18th century under Charles III (1759 88) concerning commerce and administration, made the Recopilación obsolete.
