True, they are still licking their wounds after the recent passage of draconian credit-card reforms.
With Australia's recent passage of paid leave, the United States has become the only rich country without such a policy.
Stoppard imagines that it's Jackson who forces the issue, worried perhaps by the recent passage of a law against acts of "gross indecency" between men.
They say it still does, despite the recent passage of laws here that eased restrictions on Kurdish language, education and broadcasting.
Against the odds, let us hope that the Senate's recent passage of landmark health care legislation can have the same effect.
This seems true in the realm of politics as well, despite the recent passage of the health care bill and the winding down of the battle for Iraq.
Japan's rightward shift under Abe, including the recent passage of a state secrets law, has rekindled uncomfortable memories for a man drafted to fight in a war he now believes was tragically misguided.
The Vietnamese government has reacted angrily to the recent passage in the House of Representatives of a Vietnam Human Rights Act that would tie future non-humanitarian aid to improvements in Hanoi's record on human rights.
On December 2nd, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that, despite Congress's recent passage of a law that protects gun dealers from litigation, the city's lawsuit will be allowed to continue.
Mr. McCain pointed to the Iraqi Parliament's recent passage of a budget as a sign of progress, but the major steps toward political reconciliation that the troop increase was supposed to help usher in have not occurred.
Mr. Looney said he was prompted to act by the recent passage of a similar bill in California, the nation's first such law limiting the sale of.50-caliber rifles.
