The patent office is perceived to be rubber-stamping obvious technologies.
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But if she's just rubber-stamping deportations, they go much faster.
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"We're not rubber-stamping the Senate bill," Hensarling said in March.
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It appears her investigation centered more around just rubber-stamping the police.
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It will need formal rubber-stamping by both bodies to take effect.
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" Bernal described the double-lock as "just a new rubber-stamping mechanism.
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"We're not rubber stamping the bill," said Hensarling, a close Ryan ally.
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"The judges are very thoughtful in weighing and not rubber-stamping," Ms. McKeown said.
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Formal rubber-stamping of the deal is needed for the changes to come into effect.
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The leaders were rubber-stamping a decision that had previously been taken by EU governments.
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But we can't have that debate when we're just rubber-stamping $1.3 trillion omnibus bills.
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Democrats are also unlikely to be interested in rubber-stamping one of the president's signature promises.
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Yet, that didn't stop the USDA from rubber-stamping the facility's license renewals year after year.
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A constitutional monarch, in effect, rubber-stamping the decisions of his Hand — most likely his sister Sansa.
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Our Supreme Court should never be a partisan entity rubber-stamping the agenda of an extreme president.
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The public agendas show CMS is rubber-stamping almost all of the applications for new permanent codes.
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In the past, Cabello's proposals have quickly gone to the entirely pro-government Constituent Assembly for rubber-stamping.
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Officials seemed to be busy serving corporate donors and rubber-stamping the projects and plans that benefited them.
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But an overworked or overly trusting person can fall into a rubber-stamping role, unquestioningly following algorithmic advice.
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Mr Friehling had entrusted Mr Madoff with his savings and pleaded guilty to rubber-stamping the Madoff fund's accounts.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Questionable elections for a rubber-stamping new assembly may give President Nicolas Maduro more power.
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Should Trump win, even better: The GOP gets an iron-fisted governing trifecta, plus a rubber-stamping Supreme Court.
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In Mr. Lichtenstein's case, the charges were related to bribing officers in return for rubber-stamping handgun license applications.
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"There is a sense they are rubber-stamping cases and not taking time to reach a just decision," he added.
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It's not dissimilar story were Trump to enter the White House with little hope of Congress rubber-stamping his proposals.
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Critics question this, arguing judges will just be rubber-stamping warrants on process, not interrogating the proportionality of the substance.
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Second, the federal courts should reassert their constitutional oversight role, and stop rubber-stamping legal interpretations of statutes offered by agency officials.
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In keeping the language so broad in this instance, the Constitution effectively places the Senate in far more than a rubber-stamping role.
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OPEC next meets in June, and that meeting is no longer expected to be about rubber-stamping the production agreement through year-end.
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Instead of either overruling or rubber-stamping decisions, the European Court of Human Rights refrains from overriding decisions within a margin of appreciation.
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The judge overseeing the BlackRock case in 22000 declined to dismiss the suit, saying the allegations raised questions about "rubber stamping" by boards.
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For example, a gun turret could target individuals but not fire on them, with a human "in the loop" simply rubber-stamping its decisions.
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After the rubber-stamping of the nuclear deal with world powers last year, however, Tehran has ordered a 500,000 bpd increase in oil output.
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The legislature should use the budget approval process to raise questions about procurement and conduct, instead of simply rubber stamping expenditures for security forces.
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But President Trump cannot politically survive any rubber stamping of a DACA deal that passes Congress and doesn't include immediately boosted border security money.
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest jabbed at Senate Republicans on Monday, saying they are forming a "cheap-suit caucus" and "rubber stamping" Trump's picks.
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He will keep staging misguided shows of strength, as he did by trying to bully House Republicans into rubber-stamping his initial replacement for Obamacare.
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Rather, we want to see Congress restoring its place as a coequal branch of government, not merely a rubber stamping empty shell of legislative power.
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Likewise, Republican members of Congress should think twice before rubber-stamping a presidential decision that is bound to cast them in a similar unfavorable light.
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There are a half-dozen or so Senate Republicans who are said to have misgivings about rubber-stamping Trump's Cabinet appointees and early policy goals.
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"Rubber stamping" these scenes onto objects is a quick decorative solution, but one that can be obvious for players with some basic art historical background.
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Instead of rubber-stamping the stipulation, Judge Alsup pored over the patent himself, only to come to the conclusion that their stipulation made no sense at all.
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After the rubber-stamping of the nuclear deal, however, Tehran has ordered a 500,000 bpd increase in oil output, of which 200,000 bpd will go to Europe.
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But she was tempering expectations, hoping at least for a "second request," which is when antitrust enforcers ask companies for more information rather than rubber-stamping the merger.
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"The Republicans have been rubber stamping people through the committee since Trump was elected," Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, told Vox.
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Many committee meetings in Albany are ill-attended affairs, with most members missing, and agendas that involve little more than rubber-stamping bills headed for the legislative chambers.
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Ms. Lam's next move will be to secure approval for the agreement from the rubber-stamping Standing Committee of the National People's Council, China's top-level legislative body.
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Much of the national ire over the scandal has focused on KPMG, which helped the chaos along by rubber-stamping some explosive accusations that it could not prove.
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She could tell her various commissioners to put a stop to the federal practice of rubber-stamping new fossil fuel projects, rejecting those that would "significantly exacerbate" global warming.
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Some Macron rivals are calling his future lawmakers "godillots", or yes men, a label given to President Charles De Gaulle's parliamentarians who were viewed as rubber-stamping his policies.
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The producers had gathered in Qatar, Doha at the weekend for what was expected to be the rubber-stamping of a deal to stabilize output at January levels until October.
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Sure, they say, you might be excited about Stranger Things' 18 nominations now, but what about in five years when you hate it, and we keep rubber stamping its nomination?
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The whole committee rubber-stamping thing, the no hearings, this is much more centralized than what we see previous speakers go through on a major rewrite of legislation like this.
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In 2008 Iftikhar Chaudhry helped to oust General Pervez Musharraf, a military dictator, overturning the Supreme Court's previously pliant reputation, which it had gained by rubber-stamping a series of coups.
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Shareholders have no one to blame but themselves for rubber stamping mergers, CEO pay packages and board appointments, Kim said, adding that there was little industry engagement with company boards or activism.
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The rubber-stamping of Mr Tokayev (who was already interim president) is part of an experiment that Mr Nazarbayev has dreamt up for his country, untested elsewhere in the post-Soviet world.
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Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the chamber had no intention of "rubber stamping" the measure that the Senate passed on Wednesday evening.
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Nearly 80,000 people across the country are legally rubber-stamping messages like "Not To Be Used To Bribe Politicians" on paper currency in order to spread the message and register their disgust.
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The appointment of conservative judges will no doubt have a large impact on the country for decades, but rubber-stamping Trump's Federalist Society-endorsed picks didn't take much in the way of skill.
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A cottage industry of lawyers has popped up to guide businesses through the process, and the FAA has begun essentially rubber-stamping the waivers, raising the question of what purpose they actually serve.
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The withdrawals of three of President Trump's most troubling judicial nominees — Matthew Petersen, Brett Talley, and Jeffrey Mateer — are an encouraging sign that even the rubber-stamping Senate Republicans have reached a breaking point.
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The government's aim is not only to get firms to distribute some of their vast piles of cash, but to shake up boards that tend to see their job as rubber-stamping management decisions.
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"Today's vote continues the Senate Republicans' record of rubber stamping all of President Trump's judicial nominees," Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement.
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As Roma partners and raises a daughter with a fellow activist, Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffiths), the political issues become personal: Does fighting for equal rights mean rubber-stamping the traditional construct of marriage?
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On nominees and treaties, the Constitution instructs the Senate to give "advice and consent," but that could mean anything from rubber-stamping to sitting down with the president to confer about every single nominee and treaty.
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The apparent rubber-stamping of Mr Tokayev (he is currently interim president) in this choreographed election is part of an experiment that Mr Nazarbayev has dreamt up for his country, untested elsewhere in the post-Soviet world.
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Its tax authority in effect sold tax-avoidance services to large firms by rubber-stamping opaque arrangements that helped them to cut their tax bills dramatically in both their countries of residence and their countries of operation.
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One strategy is cost-saving mergers between local authorities: at the moment some, such as Lancashire County Council, simply go without archaeologists, which critics fear could mean planning officers rubber-stamping developments that a trained archaeologist would not.
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When your abuse reports are constantly bounced back with canned explanations, the actual people handling your abuse reports begin to seem like distant, uncaring automatons that are rubber stamping all your pleas for help with DENIED, DENIED, DENIED.
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AIBA adopted the change for amateur fighters some three years ago but needed to bring it to the IOC Executive Board, which noted it without objection on Tuesday, essentially rubber-stamping the decision and clearing the way for Rio.
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Similarly, people close to Cheney had a hand in the consistent use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the most secret realms of government, in memos rubber-stamping the torture, and on the front page of The New York Times.
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However, that is expected to be a rubber-stamping decision as Infantino has repeatedly promised that VAR will be used at the June 14-July 15 tournament and has made it one of his priorities since being elected in February 2016.
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Sure, this demand apparently came from the creepy star-chamber rubber-stamping Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and was accessorized by an open-ended gag order — nothing says "checks and balances" like clandestine courts issuing classified orders enforced in absolute secrecy, right?
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You also could criticize local and state governments for rubber-stamping development in flood-prone areas and for planning but not building infrastructure designed to lessen the rush of floodwaters, said Craig Colten, professor of geography at Louisiana State University.
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As egregious as these tactics are, they carry real downside risks for Republicans, who will likely end up rubber-stamping cabinet officials who turn out to be corrupt or incompetent or both, and ultimately damage the administration and the party.
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The only way to stop abuse of the process is for the USPTO to be forced to do its job and actually reject bad patents, rather than rubber stamping as many patents as possible to drive up its number of applications.
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Some 18 oil nations, including non-OPEC Russia, gathered in the Qatari capital of Doha for what was expected to be the rubber-stamping of a deal - in the making since February - to stabilize output at January levels until October 2016.
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Should Qatar agree to the change — its consent is required — and should logistical challenges be overcome, Infantino would most likely seek the approval of FIFA's 211 member federations, a grouping long known for rubber-stamping policies favored by the president.
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So, has America already become an authoritarian regime where law enforcement serves the supreme leader, not the Constitution, where questioning or even ridiculing the regime's officials has become a crime, and in which the legislature is just a rubber-stamping operation?
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The VSOs and MSOs get away with this kind of mission creep by rubber-stamping left-leaning, anti-veterans' choice letters because the general public is not paying attention and the left-leaning mainstream media will never call them out for it.
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Add to this growing list of grievances the Democrats' "nuclear" demolition of the judicial filibuster and President Obama's subsequent efforts to pack the courts — the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in particular — with judges committed to rubber-stamping his progressive agenda.
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The 65-year-old foundation chief has has also flexed her muscles since joining the supervisory board in January, most notably by questioning the rationale of the Tata Steel deal, ending years of rubber stamping management's proposals, people briefed on the talks said.
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The 65-year-old foundation chief has also flexed her muscles since joining the supervisory board in January, most notably by questioning the rationale of the Tata Steel deal, ending years of rubber stamping management's proposals, people briefed on the talks said.
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"Washington's recent moves in South China Sea, plans for steel tariffs and the rubber-stamping of an arms sale to Taiwan indicate that Trump is shifting toward a more hard-line approach on China," said Guo Yu, principal China analyst at Verisk Maplecroft.
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Counting of votes from Saturday's election dragged on into a sixth day, with a rubber stamping of Turnbull's government expected to be still a few days away, but the likelihood of a minority government and an obstructive Senate has already set off alarm bells.
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"It's hard to tell what is based upon genuine disagreement about safety, what is based upon lack of trust, and what is based upon not wanting to be seen as rubber stamping the FAA approval," said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst for the Teal Group.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's Congress on Tuesday formally accepted the November resignation of leftist leader Evo Morales and his deputy Álvaro García Linera, rubber stamping the end of his 14-year socialist administration as the South American country heads for new elections in May.
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LAVISH OBAMA CENTER HITS MOUNTING OPPOSITION IN CHICAGO AS PROFS BLAST PLANS, &aposSOCIALLY REGRESSIVE&apos IDEAS "The City Council's rubber-stamping of the Obama Presidential Center was totally expected," Charles A. Birnbaum, CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., said in a statement Wednesday.
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Shulkin would be wise to note the continuing issues with the VA appeals process, but also to take note of why the reform package did not pass, and be open to new ideas for reform as opposed to simply rubber-stamping the appeals reform package of his predecessor.
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While other Senate Republicans generally agree with Trump that the situation at the border has been at crisis levels for some time, they're also weighing what the lasting repercussions of rubber-stamping the president's emergency declaration will mean when a Democrat recaptures the White House in the future.
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The suit seeks the disclosure of documents that would show whether DOJ has ever secretly forced a company like Google or Apple to provide technical surveillance assistance in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a federal court that issues secret surveillance warrants in national security cases and has been criticized for rubber-stamping NSA overreach.
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The group, the Center for Biological Diversity, in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, had challenged what it said was the U.S. Department of the Interior's practice of rubber-stamping fracking off California's coast without engaging the public or analyzing fracking's threats to ocean ecosystems, coastal communities and marine life.
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The White House on Monday accused Senate Republicans of "rubber stamping" President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's administration picks before their government ethics reviews are complete.
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Thanks to a legal settlement between conservation groups and the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore has now stopped blindly rubber-stamping long-term dairy and beef grazing leases on public land, and the agency will write a general management plan that hopefully will guide this cattle-bitten area toward a more environmentally sustainable future.
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Domestic violence is a very complex subject that I don't want to dilute into five sentences, but Hill is sort of a banner figure for the NFL at a moment when all of us are struggling with how to cover athletes who have done objectively horrible things, beyond just rubber-stamping bad behavior as "boys being boys" or ignoring it entirely.
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"Once again the GOP majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee is rubber-stamping Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's nomination of a person with an extreme and disturbing record for the federal bench," said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice.
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And if many House Republicans are working to enable Trump's authoritarian instincts while various Senate Republicans work to constrain them, surely that's cause for precisely the kind of discriminating thinking that Wittes and Rauch want their Republican readers to rule out — for praising Richard Burr and criticizing Devin Nunes, let's say, or for hoping Republicans keep the Senate while not minding if they lose the House, or otherwise judging conservative leaders case by case rather than insisting that they're all rubber-stamping an incipient dictatorship.
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Shih also demanded an end to the political monopoly of the Kuomintang, the control of the Taiwanese press, and martial law, so that the 30-plus-year rubber-stamping legislative session could be dissolved.
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Mexico's ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, ruled unchecked by any viable competition since the Mexican Revolution. During the PRI's political dominance in Mexico, the nation was a delegative democracy with the executive branch ruling supreme and the Congress effectively rubber-stamping decisions.
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It also overlooks the Secretary's extensive supervisory powers, > and his statutory duty under 7 U.S.C. § 602(3) to insure that regulations be > carried on "in the public interest." And no case has been cited to us which > indicates that the delegation to the regulatees of the power to propose > regulations in the first instance violates any provision of general law.373 > U.S. at 177 n.20. The state legislature rubber-stamping the demands of the California avocado industry and the Secretary of Agriculture rubber-stamping the proposals of the Florida avocado industry thus appear to present a pot and kettle in a relative blackness contest.
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67, available here but he and other Carlist deputiesDiario de Burgos 07.01.68, available here immediately launched public campaign to change the role of the Cortes from "producción de leyes" – i.e. rubber-stamping drafts prepared by administration – into a platform of "effective dialogue" between the people and the government.Diario de Burgos 20.12.
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In practice, as was the case in all other Communist countries, its function was largely confined to rubber-stamping decisions already made by the KSC. Laws in Czechoslovakia were decided at the highest level of the KSC. They were then presented to the Federal Assembly for approval, which almost always came unanimously.
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Unlike the previous treaties of Nanking (1842) and Tientsin (1858), the Mackay Treaty was not a document drawn up by a foreign power for rubber stamping by Qing officials. Instead, the Chinese delegation tried hard to leverage advantage for their side and were aware of the impact of foreign initiatives on both domestic and foreign taxation policies.
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Some Islamic Banking observers believe the industry suffers from handpicked, highly paid Shariah experts approving financial products that have resorted to ḥiyal (legal stratagem) to follow sharia law, "shunning controversial issues", or "rubber stamping" bank management decisions after perfunctory reviews.Warde, Islamic finance in the global economy, 2000: p.227Khan, What Is Wrong with Islamic Economics?, 2013: p.
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David G. Friehling (born November 27, 1959) is an American accountant who was arrested and charged in March 2009 for his role in the Madoff investment scandal. He subsequently pleaded guilty to rubber-stamping Bernard Madoff's filings with regulators rather than fully reviewing them. His role in covering up Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme makes it the largest accounting fraud in history.
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This process is not a careless rubber-stamping of the request; the neutral, independent provider should review the client's records, interview the client, consult with the therapist, and do whatever additional testing is necessary to determine the extent of disability and the appropriateness of the recommendation, and, if necessary, be willing and able to defend the diagnosis and decision to prescribe the animal in court.
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Acid-Free As the name clearly indicates this is a paper that is completely acid free. The quality makes it an outstanding choice for making scrapbooks, rubber stamping, and creating frames for pictures. It assures your project will last a lifetime, without any side effects on the framed picture or album. Graduated This type of paper provides an exceptional look to decorative quilling projects.
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The Flax stores remain independently operated. Each has its own unique product assortment. Collectively, the available range includes paint, paper, drawing materials, drafting supplies, fine pens and writing paper, custom printing services, desk accessories, books, home decor items, photo albums, sketchbooks and journals, stationery, portfolios and presentation materials, bookbinding supplies, studio furniture, picture frames and framing, office supplies, paper crafts, scrapbooking, rubber stamping, urban art, digital printing services, digital arts, general crafts supplies and gifts.
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The president and his Council of Ministers have extensive powers, with the council, on the president's behalf, exercising both executive and legislative functions. Laws are usually drafted by the president and Council and submitted to the elected National Assembly for what is essentially a rubber-stamping. In November 2011, members of UNITA, the opposition party, “walked out of a parliamentary debate on the new Electoral Legislative package for the 2012 general elections", complaining that it “contained unconstitutional provisions".
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Michael Ellman, Socialist planning (Cambridge UP, 2014). Enterprises were called upon to develop in the final period of state planning in the late 1980s and early 1990s (even though such participation was mostly limited to a rubber-stamping of prepared statements during huge pre- staged meetings). The enterprises' draft plans were then sent back up through the planning ministries for review. This process entailed intensive bargaining, with all parties seeking the target levels and input figures that best suited their interests.
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Rather, he pleaded guilty to all charges. It has been speculated that Madoff pleaded guilty instead of cooperating with the authorities in order to avoid naming any associates and co-conspirators who were involved with him in the scheme. In November 2009, David G. Friehling, Madoff's accounting front man and auditor, pleaded guilty to securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, making false filings to the SEC, and obstructing the IRS. He admitted to merely rubber- stamping Madoff's filings rather than auditing them.
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However, that it chooses to not do so cannot be attributed to the unanimous approval of presidential policies. In actuality, the People's Assembly is restricted to the role of rubber-stamping presidential authority because it is confined by presidential powers beyond its control. Under Article 152 of the Constitution, the president is able to have his proposals bypass the People's Assembly and endorse them through a referendum. Consequently, it is impossible for the Assembly to consider or reject the policy.
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Many of the early court cases involving consent decree set precedents for the roles that judges would play in the negotiating, approving, interpreting, and modifying a settlement between two parties. The role of the judge in regard to consent decree wavers between "rubber stamping" versus applying their own judgments to a proposed settlement. In 1879, Pacific Railroad of Missouri v. Ketchum bound the court's role in consent decrees to simply supporting to an agreement that parties have already established on their own. .
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Before 1989, however, as in other Communist states, its function was largely confined to rubber-stamping measures placed before it by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). Czechoslovak Laws passed under Communism were drafted in advance by the Presidium of the KSČ and presented to the Federal Assembly, which almost always approved them unanimously. The democratic centralist principle extended to elections as well. Voters were presented with a single list from the National Front (Národní fronta), an all-encompassing patriotic organization dominated by the Communists.
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Some Islamic Banking observers believe the industry suffers from handpicked, highly paid Shariah experts who have been approving financial products using ḥiyal (legal stratagem) to follow sharia law, "shunning controversial issues", and/or "rubber stamping" bank management decisions after perfunctory reviews,Warde, Islamic finance in the global economy, 2000: p.227Khan, What Is Wrong with Islamic Economics?, 2013: p.318 and that the banking practices approved by this small number of Islamic jurists have moved closer and closer to the practices of conventional non- Islamic banking.
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By 2006, the company had peaked with sales of $598 million, but these numbers began to decline in the years that followed. A.C. Moore sold a variety of arts and crafts products, including scrapbooking, beading, knitting, rubber stamping, home decor items, floral items, children's crafts, paints, framing, greenery and seasonal items. They were known for a policy of discounts and beating competitors' prices. In 2011, as A.C. Moore was experiencing a crash crunch, one of its suppliers stepped in to save the company through a merger.
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45 Lesser also served as the first chairman of the Workshop's advisory board, a position he held until his retirement in 1997. According to Lesser, the CTW's advisory board was unusual because instead of rubber-stamping the Workshop's decisions like most boards for other children's television shows, it contributed significantly to the series' design and implementation.Lesser, pp. 42–43 Lesser reported in Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street, his 1974 book about the beginnings of Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop, that about 8–10% of the Workshop's initial budget was spent on research.
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Friehling pleaded guilty in November 2009. He admitted to simply rubber-stamping Madoff's filings with the SEC; rather than perform actual audits, he signed blank SEC forms before Madoff and others filled them in. He also revealed that he continued to audit Madoff even though he had invested a substantial amount of money with him; accountants aren't allowed to audit broker-dealers with whom they're investing. He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff, as well as his three-story, 4,400-square-foot house in New City and one other property.
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Amnesty International and numerous commentators have accused the Military Commissions Act of 2006 of approving a system that uses torture, destroying the mechanisms for judicial review created by the Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and creating a parallel legal system below international standards.Amnesty International, "Rubber stamping violations in the 'war on terror': Congress fails human rights", 27 September 2006.Martin Scheinin, "UN expert on human rights and counterterrorism concerned that Military Commissions Act is now law in United States", UN High Commission for Human Rights, 27 October 2006.Jeremy Waldron, "The Rule against Torture as a Legal Archetype" , Charney Lecture, 2006.
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Despite this, Maduro said "I will stop by hook or by crook the opposition coming to power, whatever the costs, in any way". In the following months, Maduro fulfilled his promise of preventing the democratically and constitutionally elected National Assembly from legislating. The first steps taken by PSUV and government were the substitution of the entire Supreme court a day after the Parliamentary Elections contrary to the Constitution of Venezuela, acclaimed as a fraud by the majority of the Venezuelan and international press. The Financial Times described the function of the Supreme Court in Venezuela as "rubber stamping executive whims and vetoing legislation".
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Michaels Stores sell a variety of arts and crafts products, including scrapbooking, beading, knitting, rubber stamping, home décor items, floral items, kids' crafts, paints, framing, greenery, baking and many seasonal items. Michaels produces a number of private brands including Recollections, Studio Decor, Bead Landing, Creatology, Ashland, Celebrate It, Art Minds, Artist's Loft, Craft Smart, Loops & Threads, Make Market, Foamies, LockerLookz, Imagin8, and Sticky Sticks. The company also offers custom framing through its Aaron Brothers Custom Framing store-within-a-store and online. Online, customers can upload, edit and print photos from their computer or social media sites.
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Whereas Charles I had been in part restrained by a Parliament that would not always do as he wished (the cause of the Civil War), Cromwell was able to wield much more power as only loyalists were allowed to become MPs, turning the chamber into a rubber-stamping organisation. This was ironic given his complaints about Charles I acting without heeding the "wishes" of the people. But even so he found it almost impossible to get his Parliaments to follow all his wishes. His executive decisions were often thwarted – most famously in the ending of the rule of the regional major generals appointed by himself.
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A glamorous Resistance agent (a circus artist in peacetime), code-named Viktoria Freie, delivers a time bomb to Hubička for use in blowing up a large ammunition train. At Hubička's request, the "experienced" Viktoria also helps Miloš to resolve his sexual problem. The next day, at the crucial moment when the ammunition train is approaching, Hubička is caught up in a farcical disciplinary hearing, overseen by Zedníček, over his rubber-stamping of Zdenička's backside. In Hubička's place, Miloš, liberated by his experience with Viktoria from his former passivity, takes the time bomb and drops it from a semaphore gantry, that extends transversely above the tracks, onto the train.
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Western media sources commonly describe the NPC as a de facto rubber stamping body although at the turn of the century some academics asserted that the NPC had then begun to emerge as an influential force in Chinese politics. The NPC is elected for a term of five years. It holds annual sessions every spring, usually lasting from 10 to 14 days, in the Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The NPC's sessions are usually timed to occur with the meetings of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a consultative body whose members represent various social groups.
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Maluf with President João Figueiredo in the 1980s. In 1972, following his mayorship, he served as secretary of transport of the state of São Paulo. He would then dispute a convention of the dictatorship's ruling party, ARENA – which was supposed to be a rubber-stamping caucus aimed at choosing as official "candidate" to the state government the former governor Laudo Natel. Maluf, however, succeed in being appointed official candidateJosé Nêumanne Pinto, A República na Lama. São Paulo: 1992, pages 37/38 for the following indirect elections by the State Legislative – something he did by means of abundant personal (and generous) promises to the convention's membersThomas Skidmore, Brasil: De Castelo a Tancredo.
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The proposed scheme of reforms was at once taken in hand but was never carried out. The emperor signed a ukase creating several commissions, composed of officials and eminent private individuals, to prepare reforms in various branches of the administration, and while popular peoples' representatives from the Zemstvos were granted positions, they were not allowed to vote. The intellectuals of Russia derided these reforms as rubber-stamping and an unwillingness to put forward any substantial, constitutional reforms. This ukase was designed and advocated by Loris-Melikov, and on the very day (13 March 1881) of its acceptance by the emperor, the emperor was assassinated.
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In the 1990s Southend United started planning to leave Roots Hall for a proposed new ground at Fossetts Farm. In January 2007, the club received planning permission from both Southend and Rochford councils for the stadium, retail outlets, a hotel and new training facilities but this was subject to rubber-stamping from the Secretary of State. The Department for Communities and Local Government gave broad approval to the plans in March 2008 and planning permission was granted later the same month for the HOK-designed new stadium. Roots Hall has been sold to Sainsbury's, which has received planning permission to build a new supermarket on the site.
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Partisanship, more than any other factor, appears to be the divider in the controversy surrounding Garcia Moreno's legacy. Liberal opposition did and does continue to portray him as a tyrant by emphasizing the more authoritarian policies of his regime. Under Garcia Moreno's presidency, his persuasion alone directed government policies, an easily undermined structure for a stable government, and the legislature loved him so much that it often was reduced to a rubber stamping body. Even when confronted with evidence of the good which was done under his presidency, most opponents then and now still would likely argue that the end does not justify the means.
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The agency has been accused by groups like the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa as being a 'rubber-stamping' body doing nothing against increasing foreign control over New Zealand assets. In 2007 spokesman Murray Horton said the sale of large farms to foreign buyers, including the high country station bought by Canadian country singer Shania Twain, drives up prices and makes it harder for young New Zealanders to become farmers. In 2009, Wanganui brothers Allan and Frank Crafar owned 18 dairy farms and had 20,000 cows, making them New Zealand's largest family owned dairy business. Following allegations of animal cruelty, they went into receivership.
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The band was trying to make a point about technology in doing this, and the album sleeve was a 12" square brown bag with stickers and rubber stamping to display the band name and album title. After Warsaw Pakt, guitarist Andy Colquhoun joined Brian James' Tanz Der Youth, subsequently moved on to the band The Pink Fairies, and then a band with ex- MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. When Needle Time was deleted by Island Records within a week of release (after reputedly selling 5,000 copies), the band released a few out-takes under the title "See You In Court" before evaporating. Also released a 7" Single on Island, Safe and Warm.
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He admitted to simply rubber- stamping Madoff's filings with the SEC; rather than perform actual audits, he signed blank SEC forms before Madoff and others filled them in. He also revealed that he continued to audit Madoff even though he had invested a substantial amount of money with him; accountants aren't allowed to audit broker-dealers with whom they're investing. He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff, as well as his three-story, 4,400-square-foot house in New City and one other property. Friehling faced a maximum sentence of 114 years in prison, but unlike Madoff has agreed to cooperate with the government.
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19 December 2007. Communist protesters with the sign: "The order of dismissal of Vladimir Putin for the betrayal of the national interests", Moscow, 1 May 2012 In August 2008, The Economist claimed: "Russia today is ruled by the KGB elite, has a Soviet anthem, servile media, corrupt courts and a rubber- stamping parliament. A new history textbook proclaims that the Soviet Union, although not a democracy, was 'an example for millions of people around the world of the best and fairest society'". In November 2008, International Herald Tribune stated: > The Kremlin in the Putin era has often sought to maintain as much sway over > the portrayal of history as over the governance of the country.
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By 1908, the Tribune was losing $2,000 a week. In an article about New York City's daily newspapers that year, The Atlantic Monthly found the newspaper's "financial pages … execrable, its news columns readable but utterly commonplace, and its rubber-stamping of Republican policies (making) it the last sheet in town operated as a servant of party machinery". The Herald also saw its reputation for comprehensiveness challenged by the Times, purchased by Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs in 1896, a few weeks before the paper would have likely closed its doors. Ochs, turning the once- Republican Times into an independent Democratic newspaper, refocused the newspaper's coverage on commerce, quickly developing a reputation as the "businessman's bible".
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One of the main planks of CAFCA is opposition against foreign acquisition of New Zealand assets. In this regard, they criticise the free-market policies which have made such foreign acquisition possible, and the fact that the relevant regulatory authorities (such as the Overseas Investment Office) are amongst the weakest government branches, 'rubber- stamping' investment instead of regulating it. Direct ownership of New Zealand companies by foreign parties increased from $9.7 billion in 1989 to $83 billion in 2007 (an over 700% increase), while 41% of the New Zealand sharemarket valuation is now overseas-owned, compared to 19% in 1989. Around 7% of all New Zealand agriculturally productive land is also foreign-owned.
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Metal Maniacs, page 81, Spring 2008 Skates promoted Overkill by creating the components he deemed essential to the success of national recording acts that included: creating stage name banners made with slide projectors and magic markers, modifying ornaments from Halloween costumes into stage clothing and stage props, silk-screening T-shirts, a castle-dungeon stage design made of hand-textured Styrofoam walls and supported by milk crates, rubber stamping the Overkill logo on guitar picks and drum sticks for fan souvenirs, and advertising with rubber-stamped stickers placed on highway toll booths.Bowar, Chad. About.com (06-07-07)Sakellariou, Markos. Metal Hammer Issue #282, page 72, June 2008 In March and September 1983, Skates co-composed five original songs for a demo tape titled Power in Black.
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Nanotransfer printing (nTP) (compare with microcontact printing) is a purely additive and high resolution metal printing technique. It mainly relies on the principle of surface chemistry - chemically modified surfaces act as interfacial "release" or "glue" layers to aid in transfer printing nano- structured metal ink from relief features (aka "stamp") to a surface of interest. The nTP can be simply envisioned as "a process of signature stamping using rubber-stamp". In a rubber stamping, conventionally crafted signature/logo on a rubber stamp is transferred or replicated onto a paper surfaces using organic dye or ink while in nTP, nanolithographically created structures on silicon or PDMS "stamp" are transferred or printed on other surfaces such as glass or polymers using metal ink.
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The countback system was previously used for the McClelland Trophy in 1954 when Geelong and Melbourne tied for the award; the Cats were named winners as they had the best percentage in the senior competition. From 1991, the criteria for winning the McClelland Trophy was changed to its current status, being awarded to the team finishing on top of the AFL ladder at the end of the home-and-away season. Newspapers continued to publish cumulative results of the McClelland Trophy across the three grades up until a third of the way through the season, despite the alteration, and there was notable apathy throughout the league about the award's relevance. At the end of 1991, the Under 19s level of the league was replaced with a separate junior competition to be known as the TAC Cup (now the NAB League), effectively rubber-stamping the award's format change.
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Dr. Raymond Francis McLain (May 2, 1981) was president of Eureka College, Transylvania University, and The American University in Cairo during his career in academia, while his wife Beatrice "Bicky" Kane McLain (1906–2004) was the director of the Center for Southern Regional Folklife Studies at the University of Alabama from 1966–1976. Raymond Francis and Bicky had two children: daughter Rosemary (a "singer/songwriter and artistic pioneer in the rubber stamping industry"), and son Raymond Kane McLain (1928–2003). Raymond Kane combined the passions of his parents; he majored in music theory at Denison University and did graduate work in folk music studies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina before moving to Hindman, Kentucky in 1954 where he became the director of Hindman Settlement School. While at Hindman, Raymond Kane developed an interest in bluegrass music; he introduced his three eldest children—Raymond Winslow, Alice, and Ruth—to the genre, and the four of them began playing together.
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