Well, what a fuss there's been about the digital economy bill in parliament over the past few months, with withdrawn clauses and hurried amendments and secret "wash-ups".
Dutch peacekeepers were meant to be protecting Bosnian Muslims at the time.Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, was forced to withdraw a clause he had slipped into an emergency budget.
This encountered the greatest opposition in the council of directors, and it was found necessary to withdraw the clauses.
Emails between PMI and Gardant dated 19 March 2009 noted: "The Conservative party are feeling more optimistic about withdrawing the clause implementing a display ban… I think the Conservatives will wish to escalate the issue of [a] display ban up the political agenda".
The prime minister has decided, the Times says, to either a) withdraw the 42-days clause from the anti-terrorism bill before it gets to the Lords – where it is due to be rejected by a decisive margin; or, b) announce that he will not attempt to use the Parliament Act to force it through both chambers in a year's time, when it is so defeated.
We lost all savings, including our 401K's, using hardship clauses to withdraw them.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday withdrew a disputed clause of the country's austerity bill that would have allowed one of his family's companies to temporarily avoid a heavy fine in a legal dispute.
The supreme court's decision came on a 7-2 vothatheldheld that a clause withdrawing federal funding for Medicaid programmes in states that do not expand coverage to anyone under 65 years old living below 133% of the poverty line was unconstitutionally coercive.
In that eventuality, the United States could invoke the CTBT's get-out clause: Signatories can withdraw from the treaty in situations of "supreme national interest".
Brazil continues to receive lots of foreign investment, despite its long-standing refusal to sign any treaty with an ISDS mechanism.Other countries are beginning to follow Brazil's lead: South Africa says it will withdraw from treaties with ISDS clauses and India is considering doing the same.
