Word: rubber-stamp
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...long as the Supreme Court Continues to rubber-stamp all the misdeeds, misbehavings and misdemeanors of the current Administration, it will surely remain irrelevant...
...security apparatus: Deputy Premier Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The morning after the dictator's death, the Speaker of the National Parliament - who, under the Constitution, was to become acting President - was dismissed and arrested. The Constitution did not allow new Acting President Berdymukhammedov to run in the February election, but the rubber-stamp Parliament immediately amended it to allow...
...minister, is Hugo's chief Marxist consultant - and a driving force behind Chavez's harder-than-usual left turn since his re-election last month. Chavez has announced plans to shut down an opposition-run TV network and nationalize Venezuela's largest telephone and electricity firms, while pushing his rubber-stamp Congress to allow him to run for re-election indefinitely and rule by decree well into 2008. It's no wonder Chavez watchers compare Adan to Latin America's other conspicuous First Brother, Raul Castro, who would succeed Fidel...
...consecutive sessions. All that now remains for the question to be sent to the general ballot is a second one-quarter vote from the Legislature.Supporters of the marriage ban argue that, since they acquired the required number of signatures for their petition, the Legislature has an obligation to rubber-stamp the amendment and send it to the people. They stood outside the Statehouse Tuesday, hearkening back to populist rhetoric with sanctimonious shouts of “Let the people vote!” But this is anything but an issue that should be decided by popular opinion. As the Massachusetts...
...could be more damaging than he imagined. He was determined not to be "swift-boated" again. So he declared: "If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the President and his failed team and a Republican majority in the Congress that has been willing to stamp - rubber-stamp policies that have done injury to our troops and to their families." But even Rand Beers, his national security adviser in the 2004 campaign, said: "It's unfortunate that Senator Kerry misspoke. No one who has ever been in combat would intentionally impugn our brave troops...