At a news conference on Thursday night, Mr. Gates suggested that Japan could take on more peacekeeping, reconstruction and humanitarian missions without violating limits on offensive military actions in the Constitution imposed by United States occupation forces after World War II.
Experts estimate the farm bill, signed by President Bush last spring, could increase federal spending on agriculture by 70percentt over the next six years, to as much as $180 billion, potentially violating limits for farm support set during the last round of global trade talks, but Mr. Zoellick's office disputed that.
Investigations of Grimm surfaced amid reports, including in the New York Times, that fundraising for his first campaign came in part from his relation to an Israeli citizen who is an aide to an Orthodox rabbi, and may have violated limits on campaign giving -- and prohibitions on giving by foreigners.
We did nothing to violate the limits of what the Department of Justice authorized us to do.
The tentative schedule for testing is widely expected to violate ABM limits by late next spring.
A combination with Nextel could well violate federal limits on corporate ownership of airwave licenses.
People who violate the limits can suffer opprobrium, damage to their reputations, and even the loss of their jobs.
Traders who violate the limits, which would be set once the law took effect, would face a fine.
Euro zone governments must create a system for disciplining countries that violate treaty limits on debt and deficits, he said.
The MR models that did not violate the limits of statistical significance and multicollinearity were selected for future spring rainfall forecast.
