Law firm Leigh Day, representing the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), has written to the business secretary, Vince Cable, claiming that the failure by the British government to suspend existing licences for the export of military components to Israel is unlawful as there is a risk that they may have been used in Gaza.
Formally advancing his vision of the largest mixed-use development in Long Island history, the developer Gerald Wolkoff filed an application last week asking Islip Town to suspend existing zoning rules and pave the way for his proposed $4 billion complex of offices, restaurants, shops and 9,000 apartments around the former Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center.
Tony Avella, who represents northeastern Queens, has introduced a bill that would require the buildings department not only to withhold demolition permits but also to suspend existing ones and issue a stop-work order when the commission schedules a hearing to consider landmark status for a structure.
But if Congress decides to impose new sanctions on Iran or prevent the president from suspending existing ones, that would make it hard for Obama to fulfill the American side of the deal.
A kind of horizontal Eiffel Tower, suspended over existing urban development, the project was both superstructure and infrastructure.
The agency, which has not said when the restrictions will be lifted, has suspended all existing permits for fishing, boating, hiking and hunting, and will issue new public-access permits for such activities.
In light of that uncertainty we have taken the decision to suspend these existing export licences in the event of a resumption of significant hostilities.
The storm intensified when it became clear that millions of Americans were receiving letters from insurance companies suspending their existing policies and requiring them to shop for new ones, directly contradicting a promise Mr Obama had made over and over that everyone who had policies they liked would be able to keep them.
And now today, Uber has also reached an agreement with the California regulator, which will suspend an existing cease-and-desist order and eliminate the $20,000 fine that it had tagged the startup with.
