After more than a decade of discussion, the draft law on domestic violence has still not been introduced in parliament.

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Lapid has said he will not sit in a government that does not restart moribund peace talks with the Palestinians, but the issue could get sidelined since the largest parties share more common ground on domestic matters like the army draft.

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Promisingly, the Chinese bank regulator announced draft rules in May to allow domestic and foreign institutions to set up consumer-finance firms to offer personal loans for consumer-goods purchases.

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The draft treaty does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers.

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The clocks that count down rather than up and the use of penalty kicks to decide regular season matches may be gone, but MLS still insists on using a draft to allocate a good number of domestic players amongst its teams and a playoff system to decide its eventual champion.

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On Christmas morning, Seward presented to the Cabinet his draft response to the British, carefully balancing the conflicting imperatives of foreign and domestic policy.

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