Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
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It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species, ... It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
Jim Saxton
The provisions allow 11 different tasks that Idaho Fish and Game and the state will be responsible for, eight of those 11 involve killing wolves.
Suzanne Stone
It's probably down because of the provisions on those two UK projects.
Richard Morris
The market's set to hold around the 5,000 level at the moment, with the retail sector coming under more and more pressure and UK house prices looking like they might come lower. The banks' potential credit risks become higher, bad debt provisions become bigger.
Martin Dobson
The Chamber of Commerce had some concerns about two provisions of the contract. It's just something that needs to be ironed out.
Greg Grammer
The German government expects from Russia and Ukraine that the bilateral negotiations between the two countries about gas deliveries to Ukraine should not lead to the curtailing of gas provisions in Europe.
Thomas Steg
It didn't have any of the actively anti-environmental provisions of this [CAFTA] agreement.
Lori Wallach
Under normal circumstances, those talks could have violated antitrust provisions. Those kinds of discussions can occur under the supervision of the commission.
David Sandman
We will grant there is still a significant gap between proposals. But a lot of them relate to job security and provisions that are no cost to the company.
Karen Miller
I'm pleased that FSF is going to add patent defense to its new GPL 3. Many other open-source licenses have such provisions already.
Larry Rosen
All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.
Lois Capps
None of these bills contain any provisions to keep electricity affordable in Maryland.
Henry Fawell
Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.
Michael Bryant
It is 100 percent baseless and false. These provisions were requested by border-based U.S. attorneys to help crack down on human smugglers.
Jeff Lungren
How did they get this note? ... China has detailed provisions about what you have to do to execute a search.
Jerome Cohen
Signed in the 1940s, the Convention on Whaling is a gentleman's agreement without enforcement provisions. That would be fine if Japan knew how to act like a gentleman.
Karen Steuer
This line is the first test of the Energy Policy Act provisions to address the constraints on transmission construction.
Melissa Mchenry
The issue on the table is whether Microsoft will make a proposal with sufficiently extensive behavioral provisions to satisfy the government's concerns.
Mark Schechter
The market's been soft, ... and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.
Andrew Zimbalist
I would expect that the House will forcefully advocate for those provisions. I would say its prospects look fairly good.
Jeff Lungren
We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.
Sally Forman
China Top 50 Banks. Capitalization across the system is improving but still low. The resolution of the nonperforming asset problems of the major banks will further improve system capitalization and make good the shortfall in loan loss provisions.
Ryan Tsang
Many of the provisions would actually end up harming consumers in the long-term rather than helping them.
Nessa Feddis
They did about 2,001 euros per car for other risk provisions, and that is the lowest level of provisioning in five years.
Adam Jonas
Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector.
Pieter Wind
Apple better get lobbying fast. There may be provisions for free commerce and antitrust that would give an angle to Apple to attack this position.
Francois G. Laugier
That's why we need to keep the pressure on and send a clear message to the politicians in Washington that we need a just immigration reform that includes provisions for 12 million immigrants who work and build America every day.
Domingo Garcia
We are disappointed that the provisions against the U.K. construction projects held back what would have been an otherwise very strong operating result. Lend Lease maintains a confident outlook for growth.
Greg Clarke
Our overall offer included several provisions to enhance job security. Still, we continue to believe that job security depends on our ability to improve quality and productivity.
Jerry Calhoun
A lot of provisions in this law have the potential to chill uses of information, especially among competitors.
Skip Lockwood
Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.
Henning Kagermann
I know for a fact that most of our smaller wineries would have to close up under provisions of that bill.
Rick Coates
The provisions that are a problem are those that minimize judicial scrutiny of searches and surveillance and that increase government secrecy.
Timothy Edgar
The plan didn't include any provisions for assessing potential environmental contamination from the lead. We kept asking that they hire somebody ... to make an assessment.
Karen Ferguson
Adoption of the (comprehensive) resolution, which includes many important provisions bearing on the oil-for-food program, will clear the way for action on a full six-month extension of the (oil-for-food) program a week from now.
Peter Burleigh
We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.
Jake Siewert
(Earl) has a number of benefit provisions that are different from what we have in any other contract. As far as we're concerned, we're looking at what is taxable, and what is not taxable.
Mark Conrad
We are enforcing the provisions of the contract we signed with our pilot employees when they joined the company.
Jon Austin
There are provisions within the ordinances that allow you to appeal where you can apply for special permits, and zoning is a living, breathing, organic process. Zoning isn't written to last a century. So as communities change, zoning can change as well.
John Williams
The refusal of Warner-Lambert's board to give due consideration to the Pfizer offer, and the coercive provisions of its agreement with AHP ... effectively deny shareholders the right and opportunity to enhance their investments.
Alan G. Hevesi
The expansion in retail lending, the lower provisions and costs are the main drivers for the return to profitability.
Dimitris Haralambopoulos
These provisions of the USA Patriot Act are essential to our efforts in the war on terrorism, and their loss will damage our ability to prevent terrorist attacks. Our nation cannot afford to let these important counter-terrorism tools lapse.
Alberto R. Gonzales
If they default on the conditions, then there are provisions for council to negate the lease.
Michael Mcgee
Recovering data without making provisions for recovering applications is a lot like having the sheet music but no instruments, musicians, concert hall or conductor to play the symphony. It's just not going to get the job done.
Peter Mckellar
Even on a relatively low level, some provisions for a substantial severance package can be included.
James Johnston
On Feb. 13, 2003, the Congress passed the Do Not Call Implementation Act, which authorized the FTC to collect fees from sellers and telemarketers to implement and enforce the provisions relating to the do-not-call registry.
Timothy Muris
We're really excited and strongly support the provisions. We are just trying to make sure that parents are involved in their minor daughters' decisions.
Susan Klein
I think that's why we're having these hearings to establish the record that there is a need (to renew these provisions), ... I think the record will speak for itself.
Charles Mathias
I think it clearly adds some strong safety provisions that will improve safety in the mines.
Bill Caylor
Sustained close engagement by the United States government is necessary to ensure compliance ... with human rights provisions.
Michael Cromartie
We are not under the clean-air ordinance. We are a tobacco retailer. Those provisions do not apply to us.
Brian Stebbins
We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.
Donald J. Borut
There has been a perception that the Safe Schools Act provisions (have) uniform application across the province.
Gerard Kennedy
This is the kind of discrimination we would see on a much larger level without the provisions. Trying to fight something like this after it is in effect is very expensive and time consuming. It might take years to get a decision.
Jon Greenbaum
The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy.
Michael Greco
The question was whether the government could (regulate advertising) under the provisions of the act.
David Kessler
Although we booked provisions to clean up our balance sheet, resulting in a bigger loss, we think our business is now beginning to recover.
Hiroshi Sato
There are well settled provisions of federal law that guarantee bilingual assistance at the polls for those of Puerto Rican origin and others.
Ralph Boyd
The changes to Resolution 493-05, which were made before the fall 2005 general election, have provisions that will unnecessarily complicate the process, with little or no appreciable benefit and potential cause long-term damage.
Susan Greenberg
There's a push from the energy committee to look at specific provisions and see how we can make it happen on the ground.
Cameron Hardy
If he left for good cause then he would be entitled to provisions of the contract.
Brad Mcgee
So there is a clear breach, in my view, of the disclosure provisions and that is the fault of the Telstra board, and I suspect probably the fault of the Government.
John Curry
No officer of the company has to sign or attest that the information in it is correct and there is no authority at the federal government level to enforce it. My best advice is if you can open and run your own business, do that instead of owning a franchise. Check out our website and see the potential problems with franchise agreement provisions and the problems that franchisees face.
Larry Beck
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
George Sutherland
If there are problems such as child abuse or spousal abuse, there are other criminal provisions or other laws dealing with those problems that certainly should be enforced.
Martha Bailey
If outside folks come in, we have provisions to give them spare radios. If we go somewhere and help, we'll get into that then.
Steve Carpenter
Despite very clear provisions in our contracts, EMI persists in ignoring their obligations and duty to account fairly and with transparency.
Neil Aspinall
We have provisions in the agreement that tied to contemplate the 'What Ifs'. If you have another tournament that comes in or one that leaves, can we redirect dollars?
Ric Clarson
It sets a bad precedent. All provisions of the building and zoning code must be met.
Nick Tinari
We believe more clients will adopt the Roth 401(k) if EGTRRA provisions are made permanent, which may happen as part of pension reform legislation currently before Congress.
Steve Patterson
It's unfortunate that the local planning agency has approved housing projects without making provisions that school children will make safe routes to school.
James Barnes
Attorney General Lynch is pleased the commission agreed that Narragansett Electric has to comply with the notice provisions of the law before obtaining a rate increase. He regrets that the commission chose not to grant the motion made by the George Wiley Center.
Michael Healey
There are provisions in the Senate bill that create opportunities we have not created for a long time.
Chris Daley
[The bill] will place a new emphasis on recovery and eliminates dysfunctional critical habitat provisions, ... It's about a new era in protecting species and protecting habitat at the same time we protect property owners.
Richard Pombo
Our biggest concern with delisting is that we have to have provisions for habitat protection. It doesn't do any good to protect the bird if you don't protect his habitat.
Lynda White
There's many other provisions under the Help America Vote Act ... (disseminating) election information, and creating a statewide database for registrations.
Jim Mccauley
Among these are how many and how frequently people have lapses in their health insurance; the characteristics of people with disabilities; the presence of health care provisions in child support agreements; and whether more people enter or exit poverty during a given year.
James Holmes
Am I entirely satisfied? No. But this order is now conditioned on provisions designed to address numerous possible harms to competition and to consumers, as well as to protect the openness and innovation that must always characterize the Internet.
Michael Copps
Really the modification is to address some of the concerns about whether this would affect frontline forecasters and people like that. It should be pointed out in the original request we had submitted there were provisions to protect the frontline forecasters and the like already in that.
Greg Romano
We have undertaken the most vigorous enforcement of the language minority provisions of the Voting Rights Act in its history.
Eric Holland
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