Last year, hundreds of these riders were proposed for inclusion in the spending bill: from defunding Planned Parenthood, to weakening our campaign finance rules, to undermining Wall Street reform.
"In our view, the growing acceptance among federal courts of a 'historical significance' exception to Rule 6 e) threatens to undermine the essential principle that Rule 6 e) encompasses, within its four corners, the rule of grand jury secrecy and all of its exceptions and limitations," Mr. Holder wrote.
Xi believed lawyers, liberal academics, journalists and church leaders were using what he saw as incendiary western ideas about civil society, constitutionalism, press freedom and the rule of law to undermine "the absolute rule of the party", MacFarquhar said.
Yet here the UK's data watchdog is warning that the government might be at risk of breaching the incoming data protection rules by legislating to undermine her independence.
Some allege improper conduct in the public comment portion of rulemaking; some allege the rule itself is technically incorrect; some tilt quixotically at undoing the rule in order to undermine its support in advance of the midterm elections.
The third bill had to wait for another Liberal ministry (the Conservatives had attempted to "kill Home Rule by kindness," to undermine its program by effecting moderate reforms); its introduction in 1912 inflamed the militant opposition of both unionists (led by Edward Carson) and republicans in Ireland.
This would appear to rule out attempts to undermine a partner's contribution.
TTIP and other free-trade deals, she suggests, should state explicitly that investment-protection rules cannot be used to undermine states' right to regulate, merely to ensure fair repayment if investors are treated arbitrarily.
In most developing countries, however, political leaders are adamantly opposed to any linking of worker standards to trade agreements, arguing that imposing rules from outside threatens to undermine the competitive advantage they need to support their own economic development.
What kind of adult devotes two years to the memorization of Robert's Rules of Order solely to undermine a superior-out of petty resentment?
