Moreover, Mexico renounced to its former IPR regime and retroactively recognized pharmaceutical and other patents, which according to Mexican law were not patentable.
Hampton continued to collaborate with Goodman even after this particular group disbanded, notably on the composition Flying Home, which, when recorded by Hampton and his orchestra with a skronking solo from tenor sax player Illinois Jacquet, became a smash hit that would be retroactively recognized as an early example of rock 'n' roll.
In June 2013, the Pritzker committee declined to retroactively recognize Scott Brown.
The prize comes two and a half years after Caroline James '05 and Arielle Assouline-Lichthen then architecture students at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, posted an online petition to convince the judges of another prestigious architecture award — the Pritzker — to retroactively recognize Scott Brown, Venturi's partner in the firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates.
In 1962, the Baseball Writers Association of America presented Hornsby with an award retroactively recognizing him as the 1924 MVP.
However, in July 1922, Parliament passed a law which allowed the King to retroactively recognize royal marriages on a non-dynastic basis.
Ms. Del Ponte's immediate predecessor, Louise Arbour, who indicted Mr. Milosevic while new war crimes were being committed in Kosovo, certainly recognized the pitfalls of retroactively turning news gatherers into tribunal agents in disguise.
Mr. Attmore of the standards board said the new rules would require some costs to be recognized immediately, for example, when a city or state decided to sweeten benefits retroactively, years after the work had been performed.
The concept of such a succession of "Reichs" had its origin just 10 years before Hitler's rise to power, however, and those living in the retroactively named "First Reich" (the Holy Roman Empire) or "Second Reich" (the German Empire) would not have recognized the validity of such an appellation.
Indeed, whether or not Chang and Eng can be retroactively understood as "Asian American" was an intriguing question, especially because they arrived in the United States early in the 1800s, before Asian immigrants had a designated legal status or a recognized identity category.
Derbyshire has retroactively justified the extensive progressive effort to keep Thomas off the Supreme Court bench in 1991; the feminists and civil-rights activists who recognized that Thomas would indeed deliver strange justice were much more perceptive than I was at the time.
