Packaged as a crime-fighting measure unrelated to abortion, the bill is actually aimed at fulfilling a longtime goal of the right-to-life movement.

Voters rejected all four of his initiatives, as well as four unrelated measures.

Mr. Stevens countered that unrelated measures were often added to must-pass legislation in the closing days of a Congressional session.

Mr. Lott said Democrats clogged up the Senate with countless unrelated measures and then "they criticize us for not getting the work done."

That bill, which contains a host of unrelated measures, passed tonight by a vote of 259 to 164.

Both parties agree on the need for further disaster relief, but the legislation providing for it has become bogged down in bickering over unrelated measures.

In probability theory and statistics there is an unrelated measure of linear dependence between random variables.

The collapse in talks before the late-night deal was caused largely by the longstanding Albany strategy of linking unrelated measures to exert leverage.

But I must stress that the safety of shipping must not be used as an excuse for the enaction of measures unrelated to it.

The tax bill contained two unrelated measures.