In addition to banning exclusive representation clauses, GOP legislators like State Sen. Pat Colbeck (R-Canton) are also looking into measures that would force employees to reauthorize their unions as collective bargaining agents during contract renegotiation periods, according to the paper.
This leaves us wondering whether it is right to ignore semantic information if such an interpretation would offer a more accurate representation of the clause; a curious dilemma for functional linguists but one we hope to resolve at least partially in this paper.
Such transactions would only be acceptable for institutional investors in the presence of investor protection guarantees, such as board representation, and sunset clauses.
FHLB members are now suing the big banks to force repurchases under representation and warranties clauses and other claims.
The top-level sentence representation is the sentence clause, in this case representing a fixed order Agent-Action-Patient-Punctuation sentence template.
In Table 1, the TA probes undergo different numbers of mental operations compared to the two representations from the target clause and the probe.
Only the "it" is standard English, but it is a phonetic representation of a perfectly ordinary clause ("they've got to do it all for themselves").
By experiential, Halliday refers to the second strand of meaning, namely a clause 'as a representation of some process in ongoing human experience' (Halliday 2004: 59).
Higgerson points to the relevant clauses in the Representation of the People Act that provide for the public inspection of election expenses.
Because the value the Clause protects is democratic representation, rather than legislative independence per se, the question of nondisclosure is one of protective procedure, not of privilege: Congress, not the executive branch, gets to make first determinations as to privilege.
They originated the three-fifths clause (giving the South extra representation in Congress by counting part of its slave population) and threatened disunion if the slave trade were banned, as other states demanded.
