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The bills amend CEQA to expedite court review of legal challenges to "environmental leadership projects" that commit to meet certain loosely-defined environmental standards and create a significant number of jobs.
Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011
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The bills amend CEQA to expedite court review of legal challenges to "environmental leadership projects" that commit to meet certain loosely-defined environmental standards and create a significant number of jobs.
Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011
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Eventually the Nordic scene stepped back from immersion a little in favor of a story/dramatist approach, as you can see in the new loosely-defined but Diana Jones award-winning Jeepform style of LARPing.
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The two companies 'proposal would allow the Federal Communications Commission to enforce net-neutrality rules on wired Internet services -- excluding a loosely-defined category of "additional online services" -- but would rule out such oversight on wireless broadband.
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The Church of England (the Cambrays) can either ally itself to the Roman Catholic Church (Agatha Radcliffe), or to that very loosely-defined conglomeration of churches defined as "Protestant" (Donald Douglas).
Religion 2009
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The threat to the American homeland is posed by Al Qaeda, not by the loosely-defined Taliban.
Rep. David R. Obey: We Owe It to Our Troops to Bring Hardnosed Realism to Whatever We Ask Them to Do 2009
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This is one tough, smart, attractive engaging woman who is more than up to meeting the high-stakes but loosely-defined demands of a position where the Goldilocks chorus will always find too much or too little -- seldom just right.
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Democrats (and some Republicans) are split into two loosely-defined camps.
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In the end, this pretext bears a striking resemblance to the Bush doctrine of loosely-defined prevention (not preemption), a doctrine that has no legitimacy under international law.
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The cease-fire that both countries agreed to calls for a Russian withdrawal to two separatist regions, with the right to roam (ph) a loosely-defined security zone.
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