Joseph Cook's Liberal party had been in power for onlya year when it called a double dissolution in 1914 over legislation prohibiting preferential employment of trade union members in the public service.
Do you think this will require legislation or preferential treatment?
I didn't used to think it would require legislation or preferential treatment to advance women but I've changed my view because otherwise it's going to take too long".
The experts who were given the task of preparing the draft legislation recommended giving the road haulage industry preferential treatment.
Security interests may be voidable as fraudulent or preferential transfers or because of inconsistency with overriding policies of the bankruptcy legislation.
As an index of political energy, the first day of the fourth annual session did nothing to counter the feeling that South Africa's parliament is losing its fizz.Mr Mandela promised crucial legislation, including a bill to compel recalcitrant employers to implement preferential hiring.
Last week the secretary general of the governing African National Congress (ANC), Gwede Mantashe, received both plaudits and brickbats when he said black-owned companies, which receive preferential treatment in the dishing out of government contracts in line with BEE legislation, used the state as their cash cow by supplying sub-standard goods at abnormally large fees.
legislation, a 1996 Clinton administration initiative, basically extends to peace partners of Israel the preferential access to the United States market that Israel gained under the 1985 American-Israeli free trade agreement.
Republicans have repeatedly asserted that the administration was giving preferential treatment to its political allies by granting waivers to health plans sponsored by labor unions that had supported the legislation.
Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has drafted more ambitious legislation to raise nearly $200 billion for sequester replacement by closing off a variety of offshore tax shelters, ending preferential tax treatment for many private equity and hedge fund managers, and taxing the exercise of stock options more heavily.
