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Mr. Daschle says his plan was enacted only after consultation with environmentalists.

However, provocation was strictly interpreted at the time and the diminished responsibility defence was enacted only in 1957, partly as a result of Ellis's case.

He noted that in 1999, before the law was enacted, only 7percentt of the school's students were reading at grade level in third grade and that now 80percentt of third graders were reading at grade level.

But the White House hopes to tap into its base of supporters to raise the stakes for Congress, which has not passed a major gun control measure since 1994, when the original assault weapon ban was enacted only to trigger a backlash among gun rights supporters who helped vote out the Democratic majorities.

The first liberal divorce law — and it was extremely liberal, similar to our no-fault divorce — was enacted only at the end of the eighteenth century, and it was the work not of Protestants but of Catholics, the legislators of the French Revolution.

The following year, he capitalized on his success in repressing a dockmen's strike by immediately calling an emergency election in which he increased his parliamentary majority, but his subsequent bill (1951) to increase police powers in industrial conflicts (at a loss, many felt, of important individual rights) was enacted only in an amended form after a public outcry.

Democracy in contemporary America can be enacted only on a giant scale.

Same-sex marriage has been enacted only where legislatures or judges swooped in to make it happen.

If it were enacted, only nine clinics across the state would comply with the standards – which are expensive to meet, but not medically necessary.

Such a program, however, would likely be narrower in scope and be enacted only after Congress votes on the Africa and China issues.

Even if this law is enacted, only a very, very small percentage of women who need abortions will be able to access them in Ireland.