The legislation, Mr MacAskill said, would "enshrine in law a victim's right to damages and compensation".
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.
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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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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Our Founding Fathers would be aghast at such power grabbing, which makes a mockery of the separation of powers and the checks and balances that they took such pains to enshrine in the U.S. Constitution.
Presiding over defence cuts could leave him short of positive achievements to boast of, though the government's decision to enshrine in law the military covenant (the state's duty of care to soldiers and their families) was a small victory for him.
Demands by some Conservative MPs for legislation paving the way for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU were ignored, as were calls from charities to enshrine in law David Cameron's pledge to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.
They have also challenged legislators in their attempts to enshrine the judgments in law.
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.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, would enshrine such lunacy in legislation, no less.
From 2013, Wales intends to enshrine its guidelines in the law too.
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.
Another proposal was to enshrine press freedom in the constitution.
Significantly, in terms of Israeli public opinion, Mr Barak is now making it clear not only that he accepts the eventual establishment of an independent Palestinian state but that he is prepared to enshrine this acceptance in the proposed framework agreement.
In launching the Moslem Brothers' modern jihadi movement, Hitler did far more than enshrine anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
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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.
Now all that's needed is for the Council of Ministers to give it the nod - it's rare for them to say no - and then member states will be obliged to enshrine the extended copyright in law.
Conservative peer Lord Selkirk of Douglas, who led the debate on the eve of Remembrance Day, said he supported the government's commitment to enshrine the military covenant in law and to report annually on housing, health and education for service personnel.
But it will enshrine a new principle in our financial system: From now on, instead of competing to see who can come up with the cleverest scheme to make the quickest buck, financial institutions will compete to see who can make the better product and the better service.
House Republicans are preparing to enshrine the lower spending levels in a bill to finance the government from March 27 through Sept. 30.
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.
It was such thinking (drilled into young officers early on) that led the generals to enshrine a right to intervene in the regulations that they drafted for themselves in the 1980s.
Remember that the court overturned the rule because the FCC had overstepped its authority, not because the Broadcast Flag was inherently unconstitutional, so now the industry has decided to stop messing around and are leaning on their pals in Congress to enshrine the Broadcast Flag as law.
On 11 January 2011, as MPs debated the legislation at committee stage, Mr Connarty claimed that the leadership of the Conservative Party had "cloaked itself in Euroscepticism" by vowing before the general election to repatriate powers from EU institutions and to enshrine the sovereignty of Parliament over the EU in legislation.
Euro members would enshrine both debt and deficit ceilings in their constitutions.
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.
The justice secretary explained the bill would enshrine the right to legal advice before questioning in stature, increase the time for detention without charge from six hours to 12 hours and up to 24 hrs in the most serious circumstances with appropriate safeguards.
But no country, until now, has sought to enshrine the principle of positive discrimination, let alone equality, in its constitution.
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