Accordingly, Ms. Berger said, the best thing to do is to get the deck approved retroactively, if possible.

Abraham Lincoln, for instance, terminated a treaty without prior Congressional authorization, but Congress retroactively approved his decision at a later point.

Convening in July 1861, Congress retroactively approved Lincoln's actions and authorized another one million three-year volunteers.

Xiang Yu sent a messenger to inform King Huai II and the king was forced to retroactively approve his command.

But the PEF executive board retroactively approved the sick leave buybacks in a private meeting in August 1999, forcing Benson to drop the lawsuit.

But Mr. Hevesi said the board never delegated that authority or retroactively approved Mr. Turan's actions, which the auditors said was required.

A year ago, they blithely quit the Capitol and let the unemployed stew through the holidays before retroactively approving a benefit extension that was far too modest.

At the May 4 meeting, the company will ask shareholders to retroactively approve the grants.

In 1893 the legislature retroactively approved many of these practices by giving the commission the right to sell timber from the lands and trade them as it saw fit.

Upon his return to Missouri he retroactively approved Lyon's capture of Camp Jackson, then secured warrants to search and seize illegal weapons in the area.