That is why Abe is determined to amend, or at least reinterpret, Japan's constitution to allow for the kinds of defense maneuvers that other countries, from Israel to India, employ when their people are threatened.
"If we allow judges to amend mortgage payments at will," says Anthony Sanders, a finance professor at Arizona State University, "national and international investors will think twice about investing in the U.S. mortgage market".
But Mr. Rumsfeld said today that the administration did not plan to amend the act "at the moment".
Mr. Reid said on the Senate floor that he expected to amend the measure at some point with the specific issues included in whatever deal is worked out.
Burnham said that if Labour's understanding was correct, the party would look to amend the bill at committee stage to ensure a genuine double-lock.
The German constitution of the Weimar Republic was never abrogated under Hitler, but an enabling act passed by the Reichstag in 1933 permitted him to amend the constitution at will, in effect nullifying it.
The Lib Dems are not planning to support Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, when she seeks to amend the bill at its report stage in the House of Commons on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The United States delegation, upholding the White House stance against abortion, seeks to amend language arrived at in previous United Nations conferences so that it excludes abortion from the menu of reproductive health services offered to teenagers.
While Facebook explicitly state that the usage is "subject to your privacy and application settings" which may give some reassurance, they also, naturally, reserve the right to amend the terms at any time.
Kenneth W. Starr, dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, who had argued before the justices in favor of Proposition 8, said the ruling "represents a ringing judicial affirmation of the right of the people of California to amend the State Constitution at the ballot box".
If you prefer the idea of an apartment, studios with The House Apart start from €80 per night and one-bedroom apartments start from €100, including two breakfasts at The House Café on Istiklal Caddesi This article was amended on 11 February 2015 to amend opening times at the Museum of Innocence.
