This narrowing of the regulatory scope was a victory for builders, mining operators and other commercial interests often at odds with environmental rules.
Mr. de Klerk said people will remember Mandela for the importance he placed on reconciliation -- being able to reach a settlement between conflicting sides.
By generation gap we mean that young people and old people have misunderstandings of each other and that both generations have different or even clashing values.
A time where enemies are greeted as potential friends, conflicting views are invited as a potential for greater understanding, and differences are embraced to build wholeness.
It's a blindness at odds with the full measure of responsibility which sometimes, he says, involves collective responsibility or responsibilities that may flow from historic memories.
Often something must give, and as a result, many women drop out of the workforce or work part time, especially if working hours clash with childcare commitments.
In the United States, the court has also recognized corporations' rights to make unlimited political donations and to ignore laws that conflict with the religious beliefs of their owners.
Alongside that, globalisation means that we now live in a world of new diasporas, colliding communities, of neighbours who were once strangers in a foreign land with foreign customs and practices.
In two minutes he was in the room, and Rosamond went out, after waiting just long enough to show a pretty anxiety conflicting with her sense of what was becoming.
The problem is that rules have a way of being simplified with repetition, until they wind up in a stark and simple form that conflicts with how the language actually works.