11. The archdiocese opposes such a clause. 12. The prime contractor under a federal highway construction contract containing such a clause awarded a subcontract to a company that was certified as a small disadvantaged business. 13. The speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, has refused to consider any bill with such a clause. 14. Critics charged that passing a law with such a clause would make Israel the only country in the world that legally sanctioned torture. 15. France had advocated such a clause. 16. France had insisted on such a clause. 17. It was unclear whether the contract signed Wednesday included such a clause. 18. Others fear such a clause would provide a justification for powerful nations to retaliate against their enemies. 19. Such a clause might be aimed more at GM and Ford than DaimlerChrysler. 20. Such a clause had no place in an anti-terrorism bill, they argued. |