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And there are few precedents for the sort of retroactive legislation the banks want.
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At least the government can answer those who say its attitude to retroactive legislation is inconsistent.
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Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.
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Many suspect that retroactive tax cuts could be ditched.
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Some schemes use retroactive notation in order to signal new facets.
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The result seems imposed and artificial, a seemingly retroactive attempt to fit unwilling text to some overarching high-concept frame.
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There's an immediate freeze on all anti-USSR activities, retroactive to 2400 hours last night.
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This means that the payment may have been for multiple months, which indicates there may have been a retroactive salary payment.