• The founders laid down that House members must face election every two years, a frequency unmatched in any other country, now or then.

    ECONOMIST: Mark Neumann, Republican hothead

  • Do you think there should have been more conditions laid down of that type, David Ervine?

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • The Antigua Yacht Club split off the classics long before the La Nioulargue tragedy and has laid down rules that discourage the sort of vigorous maneuvers and confrontations that mark modern yacht racing.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • Okay, but what if Kinnucan laid down some other issues that could help his case?

    FORBES: Doug Whitman Gets No Break on Prison Sentence, But Few Do

  • The one possible exception to his partisan agenda was immigration reform, on which Mr. Obama wisely laid down no red lines that might kill a deal.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The President's Plans

  • On its side is a 2003 ruling from the European Court of Justice that laid down criteria for state monopolies for betting they must have a policy to limit gambling abuse, for instance.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling in Europe

  • So -- and again, we have more cuts primarily in Medicare in this budget that he laid down.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It will climb the rise, and, as it does so, study rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.

    BBC: Nasa's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars

  • They are aiming to bring in religious laws that are laid down by a divine being, and can be interpreted by only a handful of people.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • "And we've certainly seen by deed, over the last four days, a disinclination to meet the ultimatum that was laid down on Saturday afternoon by the United Nations and NATO, " Burns said.

    CNN: Bosnian Serbs unyielding as NATO renews assault

  • American syndicate BMW Oracle Racing , bankrolled by software billionaire Larry Ellison, is the so-called "challenger of record", the team that officially laid down the challenge to Alinghi for the next Cup.

    BBC: SPORT | Other Sport | Germany make America's Cup debut

  • But so far, none of the Bells has met the market-opening conditions for their local franchises that were laid down in the 1996 telecommunications act as a condition for ending their exclusion.

    ECONOMIST: Hold the line

  • Even if voters understood what nominal GDP was - as they currently don't - will they really ever believe that a government is going to withstand years of well above, or well below, target inflation, simply to get back to a particular, fairly arbitrary path for the cash value of the economy that was laid down by the folk who were in power before them?

    BBC: The Bank of England, the chancellor, and the target

  • The main problem with reforming these schemes is that their generous terms are laid down by law, and are seen as part of the reward for taking on a job that is difficult, dangerous and requiring a high level of fitness.

    ECONOMIST: Public-sector pensions

  • As related to reconciliation, it is one of the five lines of effort that my colleague laid down.

    WHITEHOUSE: Via Conference Call

  • Those are the ground rules that have been laid down by the IOC.

    BBC: Manchester out of Olympic running

  • Another Canadian patient, Steven Graham, was able to demonstrate that he had laid down new memories since his brain injury.

    BBC: Vegetative patient Scott Routley says 'I'm not in pain'

  • Each of these bills meets the principles that the President laid down in front of Congress and the American people back in a speech in September.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • But I think it would be wrong to look at the agreement that the President laid down as either a long-term tax or a long-term budget agreement.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • If there will be no resolution in the Security Council, it will be basically a failure of the international community to adhere to the basic rules that were already laid down with respect to the possible exit from the conflict about a month ago by the G8 leaders.

    NPR: Israel Delays Expansion of Lebanon Offensive

  • This is a generation that has grown up under an avalanche of rules and supervision laid down upon them by their boomer-era parents, many who believe that it was fine for them to smoke dope and protest authority but would never let their children do the same.

    FORBES: Why More CEOs Should Drink Beer

  • Newer games have the advantage of building upon the foundation that other games have laid down.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Microsoft has laid down some guidelines on what the phones that are built around its software will look like.

    FORBES: Wait, This Is From Microsoft?

  • Yumeshin failed to block Japan Engineering's defences of a stock split and an equity warrant issue, but the Tokyo District Court laid down reassuring criteria for their use: that they must not simply be in the board's self-interest, and that they are subject to shareholders' approval.

    ECONOMIST: Suddenly, shareholders are beginning to matter

  • The auditing firm says that it obeyed the principles laid down by America's Financial Accounting Standards Board.

    ECONOMIST: Ernst & Young sued over Lehman

  • That's the challenge laid down by our Constitution.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama: Our Security, Our Values

  • So the NY Times laid it down: yes, the NYPD has that report linking the iPod to a rise in subway crime in New York, but it gets a little more bleak when they call in Beckerman PR vice-prez David Brooks, who claims, "Half of you is cringing, but half is bursting with pride" over the news.

    ENGADGET: iPod muggings: Apple PR dream or nightmare?

  • LEDs be laid down, but also tiny solar panels and antennae that convert radio waves into electrical energy.

    ECONOMIST: Microelectronics

  • Gradually, the strictures on capital ratios laid down in Basel III will force the broadening of that capital base, at the expense of potential remuneration pools.

    WSJ: Bankers Are Still There for Bashing

  • And they should avoid rhetoric such as the extreme conditions Mr Boehner recently laid down for raising the debt ceiling again that thrills partisans but makes compromise impossible.

    ECONOMIST: America��s budget woes

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