After decades of literally throwing money at the problem of global poverty, the emphasis has switched to securing property rights, buttressing the rule of law and allowing the world's workers to profit from their labor and retain its rewards.
CNN: McCain's August 6, 2007, speech addressing private property rights
They also complained that the new law would strengthen supporters of the king by allowing members of the security forces to vote for the first time, and allocating three more seats for women from Bedouin districts.
Julius Caesar, in one of the edicts changing Roman law after his takeover, gives the first example of allowing bankers to confiscate land in lieu of loan payments.
Two days later, after cursory debate, the lower house of parliament passed a new law allowing Japan's ailing life insurers to cut the rates of return they guaranteed to policyholders, and thus to break unprofitable contracts.
He notes in particular the lack of a law allowing a systematic witness-protection programme.
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On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
He warned of the risks of allowing non-lawyers to own legal practices, and said private capital could jeopardise the independence of law firms.
Advocates credit stricter requirements for teenage drivers in place since 2009, including a law allowing drivers under the age of 21 to carry only one passenger.
In 2009 the government of Michelle Bachelet - herself detained under the dictatorship - passed a law allowing them to inherit their parents' wealth without a death certificate and dissolve their marriages without divorce papers.
To enable these trusts, most of the states allowing them had to get rid of an old common-law principle called the "rule against perpetuities, " which allowed trusts to exist only for about 90 years.
The presidential bid of Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, came to grief partly because he had signed a law allowing certain undocumented students to pay the same rates as other state residents at public universities.
The US state of South Dakota has enacted a law allowing school districts to arm teachers and other school staff.
Mr Rajoy passed a law allowing the centre to intervene in the finances of poorly performing regions.
Among them -- the authority to conduct roving wiretaps, the use of wiretap information from other governments and allowing law enforcement to seize suspected terrorists' voice mail and e-mail with a search warrant.
The Iraqi Parliament passed a law allowing former low-level members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to hold government jobs.
Not allowing them to over rule the rule of law in fact.
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Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, although six other states have allowed civil unions that are marriages in all but name, and a law allowing full marriage rights passed through the lower house of New York's state legislature on June 19th.
The five-year-old law allowing in duty free many categories of imports from Ecuador is set to expire in February, and might well not be renewed.
The new law is supposed to ease South Africa's chronic shortage of skills by allowing educated foreigners to work in the country.
One plan is to extend the practice usual under English-style (as opposed to New York) law of allowing a majority of bondholders to agree to a rescheduling, rather than insisting on unanimity.
Consequently, it passed a law prohibiting auditors from prescribing any particular accounting treatment of the credit--thereby allowing companies to flow the credit through to earnings all at once or amortize it as they pleased.
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Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal reported a change in the politics surrounding this issue. (See "Tax Break Nears End for Online Shoppers, " July 16.) Hungry for a share of the lost dollars, some governors have dropped opposition to a federal law allowing collections, and now bills with broad bipartisan support are pending in both houses of Congress.
Reno also said she hopes the "passion" surrounding the custody case can be put aside, allowing the fate of the young boy to be resolved quickly in accordance with federal law.
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