This would essentially codify into law the Constitutional Court's ruling of 22 October 2009.

Officials said the proposed treaty, which could be presented on Friday, essentially codified the current American position that each side should agree not to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty through 1994.

Carlos Pascual, coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization at the State Department, said the directive essentially codified developments that had been under way for a year.

The Commission essentially codified existing practice.

The statute essentially codifies the common law rule of self-defense.

Those Western moves essentially codified the military plans of NATO nations, whose forces have shrunk because of declining budgets and an evaporating Russian military threat.

Last week the Senate approved legislation that would essentially codify some court rulings, making vertical price-fixing by manufacturers and retailers automatically illegal.

The statute essentially codifies the Tea Rose-Rectanus doctrine, established by the United States Supreme Court in two cases decided in 1916 and 1918.

The detainee provisions, if enacted into law, would essentially codify the military court system established by the White House for "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

In 2003, the administration expressed support for legislation that would have adopted the chemical industry's voluntary standards, essentially codifying a program based largely on self-assessments by plant owners.