The legislation, Mr MacAskill said, would "enshrine in law a victim's right to damages and compensation".
It wanted a civil service act to enshrine the non-partisan rights and duties of officials.
They have also challenged legislators in their attempts to enshrine the judgments in law.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told a local authority conference it would enshrine the rights of councils.
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Enshrine in law the coalition government's commitment to spend at least 0.7 of GDP on overseas aid.
But now, European leaders were about to enshrine in their laws the possibility of just such a default.
Indeed, let's enshrine this new principle--that the government should purchase, not seize, land for the common good--in a constitutional amendment.
But no country, until now, has sought to enshrine the principle of positive discrimination, let alone equality, in its constitution.
But this will be far from easy since they enshrine past contractual rights, such as allowable contribution levels and benefits.
Steve Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, says that kind of system threatens to enshrine a subclass of foreign workers.
That's perhaps why Thomas Jefferson, who helped enshrine the founding principles of our nation, had such a passion for architecture and design.
Euro members would enshrine both debt and deficit ceilings in their constitutions.
From 2013, Wales intends to enshrine its guidelines in the law too.
House Republicans are preparing to enshrine the lower spending levels in a bill to finance the government from March 27 through Sept. 30.
And as Libyans forge a society that is truly just, let it enshrine the rights and role of women at all levels of society.
While not all companies have yet to explicitly enshrine these new trendy values into their culture, they are indirectly being fostered in day-to-day work environments.
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New Mexico, in agreeing to WIPP, required that Congress enshrine in law a promise that the feds would not send high-level waste into the state.
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The government expects to meet this foreign aid target by next year, but has opted not to enshrine its commitment to aid spending in law.
One of those who had sought to enshrine the decree with parliamentary approval is leading MP Fawzia Koofi, who survived a Taliban ambush two years ago.
Speaking during the debate on 10 December 2012, French Green MEP Eva Joly said the agreement would "enshrine deep unfairness between the EU and Central America".
When a motion seeking to enshrine Islamic law in the constitution came before Indonesia's parliament last year, even most of the religious parties voted against it.
And each deal tends to enshrine the preferences of its largest member, making it harder to bring regional blocks together within a cohesive set of global trade rules.
He recommended the legislation enshrine freedom of the press in British law and suggested that Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, ensure the new oversight body's independence and effectiveness.
Another proposal was to enshrine press freedom in the constitution.
But opponents had already been at work on Proposition 8, seeking to enshrine the marriage definition in the constitution, and the initiative was approved for the November 4 vote.
He said it would enshrine in statute the rights of bereaved families and ensure they were treated with "dignity and respect" at every stage of the criminal justice process.
He repeated his plan to extend free nursery places for all two-year-olds over the next 10 years - and he pledged to enshrine in law Labour's promise to end child poverty.
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Obama has committed himself, his party, and his country to the political philosophy of structural deficits, which enshrine dangerous and permanent expenditures, like those on our ever-smarter, ever-more-ubiquitous national security state.
David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad W. Patzek of Berkeley reported, just in time for Congress to enshrine this atrocity in the energy bill, that corn-based ethanol consumes more energy than it yields.
But opposition parties want to amend a bill currently going through Parliament to enshrine the presumption that British nationals accused of committing crimes on home soil should be tried in their own country.
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