Still, the government pressed on, eventually moving to retroactively apply provisions of the 2001 Patriot Act that punish people who provide "material support" for terrorism.
The UK only had the right to apply transitional provisions restricting the ability of the new EU citizens to work legally – not stop them coming here in the first place.
The absence of regulatory or punitive measures for cases of non-application of community law may account for the failure to apply the provisions of laws relating to development of intra- COMESA trade development.
Federal Governments have twice proposed the amendment of Section 116, principally to apply its provisions to laws made by the states.
Upon Ratification, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran set a general reservation which says: "The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right not to apply any provisions or articles of the Convention that are incompatible with Islamic Laws and the international legislation in effect".
Today, Brazil agreed to give the United States 10 days' notice of any plan to apply the provision demanding local manufacture and allowing forfeiture of patent rights.
In the dispute, which has nettled the Bush administration, Texas has refused to apply a provision that limits the number of students with learning disabilities who can be exempted from regular standardized tests.
But a federal appeals panel overturned the sentence in 2008, agreeing with prosecutors that the judge had failed to apply a provision of sentencing guidelines related to terrorism that could have led to a longer term.
But the brothers' Toronto-based lawyer, Hadayt Nazami, argues that it is ridiculous to apply the provision to their case; the whole point of the law, he says, is to prevent those who don't have the responsibilities of citizenship from enjoying its privileges.
As bipartisan support grows in Congress for overhauling U.S. drug laws, Holder has just ordered Federal prosecutors to remove any reference to quantities of illicit drugs that trigger mandatory minimums and to apply this provision to pending drug cases, where the defendant has not yet been sentenced.
