Mr. Cowan said he also withheld action because the town was upgrading the plant, an $8.1 million project financed mainly through a 1996 state environmental bond.
Judge Saundra B. Armstrong of Federal District Court in Oakland, Calif., said the United States government "unlawfully withheld action" required under the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to update a research plan and scientific assessment of climate change.
"Tying campaign contributions to legislative or executive action has never been illegal in the United States unless there is proof that the public official extorts the money by threatening to give or withhold action based on the contributions," Mr. Tigar said.
If the risk is assessed to be below their threshold then they will withhold action.
Our behavioral results now show that on trials that were associated with a positive expectation of value (Win conditions), the need to act enhanced memory performance compared with the need to withhold action (Fig. 2).
Fontane's taste for withholding action, or at least delaying it improbably, is evident in the novel's most famous feature, a structural gambit of daring subtlety: the frustrated heroine's brief affair with a womanizing officer is never actually described — and is only discovered many years later, when Effi and her husband have settled comfortably into their marriage.
Despite Ambassador Korry's testimonial, the movie only skims the surface of American involvement, which included covert actions, withheld bank loans, weapons, training and so on.
This was a major narrative discovery: action withheld could be as tense and dramatic as action itself.
The Securities and Exchange Commission brought similar charges, but is withholding further action until the Justice Department case is finished.
Mr. Blumenthal's office contacted Monster, which agreed to withhold legal action pending a meeting with Ms. Kennedy.
