"The state has wide discretion to pass laws ensuring Texas women are not subject to substandard conditions at abortion facilities," Paxton said in a press statement.
In a statement, he said: "Supplying substandard equipment to the Afghan security forces can only undermine our mission there.
In a statement Axact called the allegations "baseless, substandard, maligning [and] defamatory" and threatened legal action against the New York Times.
It is difficult at this stage to make broad statements about whether such structures were substandard, or whether this very strong earthquake, which measured 8.0 in magnitude, would have toppled even the most earthquake-resistant structures.
Axact denied the allegations in a statement describing the New York Times story as "baseless, substandard, maligning, defamatory, and based on false accusations and merely a figment of imagination published without taking the company's point of view".
But as the administration moves to increase oversight within the agency, the documents show how officials — some still in key positions — used their role as overseers to cover up evidence of mistreatment, deflect scrutiny by the news media or prepare exculpatory public statements after gathering facts that pointed to substandard care or abuse.
Please, act now: http://t.co/uIudLanaWm #Angola3 http://t.co/JPJnLAM8fF — Amnesty Ireland (@AmnestyIreland) 30 Sep 13 Amnesty International welcomed Mr. Wallace's release and said in a statement that Mr. Wallace, according to his lawyers, received substandard medical care both before and after his diagnosis, including delaying potential life-extending chemotherapy treatments.
On Sept. 21, the state issued a statement of deficiencies in which it found several instances of substandard care at the hospital.
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Geneva, which lobbies on behalf of the multinational drug companies, issued a statement saying "it would be unfortunate if the current plague of substandard and counterfeit medicines spread" because generics makers were on the health organization's list.
In a statement to Monday night's BBC Panorama, Jeremy Hunt admitted that "pockets" of dangerously substandard care may still exist in both the NHS and social care system, despite the huge outcry over the deaths at Stafford Hospital.
About 86percentnt of the 630,000 in Jordan live below the poverty line of $3.20 per day, the UNHCR statement said, while more than half of the 1.173 million Syrians in Lebanon live in substandard shelters.
