Recent efforts to update the law have included providing training and other measures to extend legal status to irregular manufacturers.

First, the League has a tradition of extending protectorate status to what might be called "third-world planets" along and beyond its current frontiers.

The United States is pressing China to improve its human rights situation as a precondition for extending its most favored nation trade status.

If Congress had a bill on the table for "extending exempt status to people with the last name 'Teal' ", there's the "who is it going to affect?"

At the end of May, I had to decide whether to extend most-favored-nation status to China.

Vietnam remains one of a handful of countries that has not been extended such status by the United States.

By extending most-favored-nation status, a country agrees to give a trade partner the same treatment that is accorded to any other trade partner.

Last year, President Bush succeeded in extending most-favored-nation status despite opposition in Congress.

To that end, it extended legal status to many already in the work force.

Calvin's Case did not extend English subject status to the antenati (Scots born prior to 1603).