Because of the spate of challenges faced by many nations in removing MEC, an examination and comparison of how key nations define and achieve international standards 'clean' with regard to MEC-ridden land is required.
Moments after the decision, the Supreme Court ruled separately in a number of pending cases that depended on the outcome in Zubik -- a spate of challenges involving the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic diocese and other religiously affiliated colleges and ministries.
In many ways, some conservation biologists say, this spate of new challenges is just the next step in the maturing of this still relatively young field.
Ministers hope the new law will avoid a spate of similar challenges against government departments and other public sector employers under the new human rights legislation.
For Victoria, the tower is really about growth, both future and past: having one has allowed the airport to attract much more traffic, including fast corporate and military jets and thus to sell an additional million dollars' worth of fuel each year.After a spate of legal challenges, the FAA is delaying contract-tower closures until June.
Still others are worried that it would provoke a spate of primary challenges -- or low turnout among conservatives -- next year, when Republicans will be battling to retain their one-vote Senate majority in newly redrawn legislative districts that could prove less hospitable to long-serving incumbents.
For the foreseeable future, as Pruitt's proposal undergoes a several-months-long public-comment period, followed by a likely spate of legal challenges — the attorneys general of New York, California, and Massachusetts have already promised to file suits — these states are free to regulate their utilities and power plants as they please.
But I'm reminded of a spate of rampant challenges, in the nineteen-eighties, to the authenticity of many paintings accepted as Rembrandts, sometimes with reference to their relative quality, and of one authority's defensive observation: "Even Rembrandt had Monday mornings".
Understandably, given the damage an early substitution on debut would have on a player's confidence, Hughes did not replace his No2 after his spate of rash challenges but he might have changed the instructions given how close to the wind they made the midfielder sail in his 33 minutes of action.
Although the regulations have already been endorsed by the Supreme Court, they will face a spate of court challenges, opening the door to what Peter Altman from the Natural Resources Defense Council describes as "the Super Bowl of climate politics".
It was a transforming time that set into motion a spate of other challenges to Jim Crow laws and yet 60 years after that historic May decision the doors to true educational equality have never fully opened wide enough for millions of American children to walk through especially those living in poverty.
