Shortly after that law went into effect, the ratings agencies refused to rate mortgage securities containing Georgia loans because of this potential liability.
(In Britain the film classification board, citing extreme violence, refused to rate it. The denial of a rating makes it illegal to sell the game there).
As far as Germany goes, well, the ratings board (the country's version of the ESRB) refused to rate it back in May.
For the record, the "mummy bloggers" Bolt refused to rate include award-winning broadcaster, producer and entrepreneur Emma Race, who has more than 15 years' experience in commercial and community radio and TV.
Bell refused to rate the series as the most satisfying of his four Ashes wins, saying that the significance of winning in Australia in 2010-11ranked alongside his more significant personal contribution to this one.
The agencies have blamed the large incidence of fraud, but then they could have demanded verification of the mortgage data or refused to rate securities where the data were not provided.
Australia's Classification Review Board has refused to rate the upcoming Mortal Kombat re-boot.
In Germany, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) deemed these excessive, and refused to rate the game at all.
In Australia, the same scenes were removed because the Australian Classification Board refused to rate the game for release due to the depiction of sexual violencespecifically the child player-character being subjected to anal probing and the interactive abortion scene.
And that is the nut this time; and not that it is a last ditch effort for Barack Obama to save his neck, put a massive band-aid on the gaping wound that is this hemorrhaging nation's fallacy of its once purported economic might, or even that many of his Republican rivals at the helm actually refused to rate the proposed plan as anything approaching DOA.
