The salary, which can be paid entirely in cash, will be renegotiated every year, thereby skirting all the regulatory restrictions.

But I also believe that the fundamentalist approach that can be sensed in certain circles is skirting the limits of the acceptable.

But just the opposite is happening a progressive weakening of protection, with states increasingly flouting their treaty obligations and skirting or ignoring the outcomes of international dispute resolution proceedings.

President George W. Bush has been skirting the question ever since he committed himself to an immigration agreement with Mexico when he visited President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato almost exactly five years ago.