The move permits the insurers to sell stock to investors without the longstanding requirement to pay policyholders a share of the profits accumulated in their name over decades of doing business.

The deal would also exempt American and Canadian companies from the Mexican Government's longstanding requirement that foreign advertising companies open offices and hire staff in Mexico before they may run ad campaigns.

Four years ago, Brazil's Civil Aviation Department dropped a longstanding requirement that airliners on domestic routes carry jungle survival kits.

None has garnered more attention or enthusiasm than the new marriage law, which ends two longstanding requirements: a health certificate and, most annoying, a letter from an employer confirming that a person is single.

In a closed meeting this afternoon, the regulators decided that Lloyd's would have to meet longstanding requirements to set aside 100 percent of the money needed to pay the World Trade Center claims.

While our longstanding regulatory requirements for pesticides are designed to protect beneficial insects such as bees, since 2007 we have been looking at many different ways of possibly improving pollinator protection.

Mr. Dole's bill would eliminate a longstanding requirement that states spend their own money as a condition of getting Federal money.

The Syrian withdrawal has been a longstanding requirement under the Taif agreement, signed by the Syrians in 1989, which ended the Lebanese civil war.

They also noted that the plan cuts longstanding requirements that power companies invest in conservation programs.

An important feature of the House bill is that it would end a longstanding requirement for states to spend their own money as a condition of getting Federal money for assistance to poor people.