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  • Its first sub-clause echoes article 8 of the human rights act: "Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications."

    A privacy law? Editors have taken leave of their senses 2010

  • These include a sub-clause that says that an authority must consider only such matters as are relevant to the subject-matter of the contract and proportionate in all the circumstances.

    What you need to know about the public services bill Mark Cook 2010

  • If we find any subordinate sub-clause that a single legal expert is willing to assert, contrary to all other experts, is evidence that the war was legal, then we say it is legal ...

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • The Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement (PEACE) Act of 2009, introduced by Representative Howard Berman on April 2 says in sub-clause “J” that Pakistan is “not to support any person or group that conducts violence, sabotage, or other activities meant to instil fear or terror in India”.

    Pakistan Does Not Need American Aid, Good News 2009

  • Of course, the sub-clause will bite only after Washington has made a move on Dr Khan and Pakistan has thwarted it.

    Pakistan Does Not Need American Aid, Good News 2009

  • Her artless, witless & fatuous discourse can transport from sanity to incohate rage before she's fumbled her first sub-clause.

    Blears on the Ballot 2007

  • "Um, we sort of disagree with Article 123.5 in the latest national budget sub-clause of Section 772.2, maybe," whined one Dem leader, sheepishly, before being smacked upside the head.

    Archive 2003-01-01 2003

  • The amendment envisaged in sub-clause (1) is intended to validate condemnation of late applications for benefits by the Review Board and subsequent decisions taken by the Board.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The last sub-clause of this option states that "this section must be construed in terms of the principle that a power must be allocated to the level of government at which it can be exercised most effectively".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • These include the Government's proposal that an extra sub-clause be added to the chapter on provincial legislation in an effort to toughen laws in that area.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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