As The Economist went to press, the legislature was debating a budget that one senator described as having been written by chimpanzees.
Laura Miller, the mayor of Dallas and the wife of the city's senior state representative, said she would press the legislature in its next session to prevent Frisco from paying tenants to leave Dallas.
Human Rights Watch called on the governor of Aceh, Irwandi Yusuf, to press the legislature to repeal the laws and urged the central government to file an appeal in Indonesia's Supreme Court on the grounds that they violate the country's nonsectarian constitution.
If by the PRI one means the old political system, then the reality is that central elements of it have disappeared: the omnipotence and immunity of the president; the discretionary use of public funds as private assets; electoral fraud; control of the press, the legislature and the judiciary.
He said he also informed health officials in Connecticut, New York and Westchester, but wrote the article to press the Connecticut legislature to put more money into surveillance and testing programs, including his own.
Michele E. Granda, a lawyer for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which represented the plaintiffs, said that while her side had the option of asking the United States Supreme Court to hear an appeal, it was much more likely that her group would focus on the New York and Rhode Island cases, and would press the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the 1913 law.
A movement to press the Texas legislature to create a Mexican-American studies course for the state's public schools this year failed amid conservative opposition on the Republican-majority State Board of Education.
Karl Popper argued that the preservation of democracy requires independent courts, legislature and press to check and restrain otherwise overweening authority.
Pressed by courts and legislatures, many insurance companies eventually dropped their resistance to paying for the experimental treatment.
Moving from one state to another — she was a faculty wife — Sullivan became one of the founders of the National Society for Autistic Children, which pressed schools and state legislatures to recognize the condition and to provide resources for it.
