But the ambiguity of existing rules has left a loophole, critics argue, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of thinly disguised election spending have passed through.
Hodgson smiled thinly, folded up the pieces of paper and passed them to a press officer, saying we would look back at the end of the tournament to see who was right.
In 2001, President Bush was able to garner enough bipartisan support in the thinly divided Senate to pass his $1.35 trillion tax cut package.
The highway heads a short distance to the north, passing a thinly populated area in Shoreham, as intermittent forest yields to fields and farmlands.
The California Supreme Court had an opportunity Tuesday to do the right thing and overturn the thinly-passed Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban which the state's homophobes voted into law through a ballot referendum last November.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a package of election reforms passed by the state's Democrat-controlled legislature Monday, arguing the legislation was "thinly-veiled political gamesmanship". .
Last year, Louisiana passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, a law that many scientists and educators said was a thinly veiled attempt to allow creationism and its variants into the science classroom.
Similarly, is there anyone who can legitimately argue that the seven states that passed laws banning Sharia law were only seeking to guarantee our civil liberties, and that this was not a thinly disguised act of bigotry against American Muslims?
At a thinly-attended rally of city employees against Proposition B in the Castro on Wednesday, Ms. Helton said her costs to insure herself and her son would be too much for her to pay if Proposition B passed.
Additional appetizers are not needed, but those that passed muster were the four-shrimp cocktail, the six garlicky escargots, a filler-free crab cake with sweet roasted red pepper sauce and the tasty ochsenmaul salad of thinly sliced pickled tongue.
Today the tactic is often condemned as a thinly disguised legal excuse for excessive police intervention, overwhelmingly applied in poor communities of color; but even in 1929 the arrest and search of Capone could not have passed constitutional muster.
