Although Hamas really achieved nothing substantive except a brief reprieve, it did achieve a major public relations coup, reinforcing the notion among the increasingly despondent Palestinian masses that religious fanaticism rather than reasoned secular strategy will achieve their goals of a Palestinian state.
It is not clear when the package will move to substantive debate but the backbench briefing note about the omnibus bill makes clear the abolition of the energy supplement needs to happen during the spring session of parliament, because the schedules take effect in March and July 2017.
The Department's amicus brief is, as a substantive matter, disingenuous at best.
But today, on the first day of meetings for foreign ministers, the two men shook hands and exchanged brief pleasantries, but had no substantive discussions.
The brief restates many of the substantive arguments Microsoft has made in the past, but for the first time includes specific criticism of Judge Jackson, both in his trial procedures and in the judgments he made based on the evidence.
He can read the writing on the wall (and in his own intelligence briefs) and start a real, substantive drawdown in July 2011, to be completed (long, long) before the 2012 campaign.
Substantive concerns: 1) If a weak and brief pulse of Pros protein in NB nuclei is indeed important for NB quiescence, it is possible that pros may show haplo-insufficiency.
Since then, however, Yahoo has not had substantive talks with the two companies, one of the people briefed on the talks said.
His brief periods of ascendancy, however, resulted in no substantive Democratic-supported reforms, since the dominant Whigs reversed most of the changes enacted during his terms.
The timing for an agreement "is likely to slip, as member states remain far apart on a number of key substantive issues," Mujtaba Rahman, an analyst for the Eurasia Group, wrote in a briefing note on Tuesday.
