Mehdi Karrubi, the speaker of Parliament, said Ayatollah Khamenei, who has held his post since 1988, had the constitutional power to order the lawmakers to stop consideration of a bill.
Of the 45 or so appeals courts candidates who have gone to the Senate floor, the Democrats have blocked 10, going so far as to use a filibuster, or threat of an extended debate, to stop consideration on all 10.The Republicans hold a slim majority with 51 votes, but overcoming a filibuster requires 60 votes.
But then, at a DNC meeting in Minneapolis in late August, Wasserman Schultz reportedly stopped consideration of a resolution that would have put the committee on record backing the deal.
Other presidential stops under consideration in the closing days of the race include Arkansas and Louisiana, places where the Gore campaign feels fairly confident.
Or it can be surprising and goofy, as in 2005, when everything stopped for consideration of what became known as the "cheerleader booty bill" — a measure regulating overtly sexual dance moves by school cheerleaders at sporting events.
However, given the demonstrated negative effects of proactive badger culling on bTB incidence in herds on land outside but within 2 km of the areas culled as well as its declining benefits inside trial areas once culling has stopped, detailed consideration is needed to determine whether (and where) proactive badger culling could be an effective part of bTB control in England and Wales.
Also the trial can be stopped after consideration of justified medical, administrative or pharmaceutical reasons by principal investigator or sponsor.
Although we have shown some evidence of dose-response relations and reversibility (in that risk for most outcomes decreases on stopping treatment), consideration of potential biological mechanisms is outside the scope of this study.
On Thursday they asked Colonel Pohl to stop any further consideration of motions in the case until they all could learn more about what kind of technology is in place in meeting rooms and in the courtroom, and whether their confidential conversations with their clients and one another are private.
ISC's product, Northrup says, is thicker and much stiffer, made to peel and slap onto a car's body during a 15-second pit stop with little consideration as to how it looks.
Further, at sufficiently small sizes, work requirements stop being a consideration: the optimal duty factor is simply that which minimizes mean push-off power (figure 2, Lleg = 0.1 m).
