Sentences with phrase «american objections to it»

The significance of this vote, particularly to those who have been fighting the Reagan Administration on the environmental front, was that the lone dissenter was the U.S.. However, according to transcripts of the debate on the charter's passage, American objections to it weren't inspired by Interior Secretary James Watt or anyone else in Washington.

Not exact matches

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

The administration inserted protectionist «Buy American» language in the President's jobs bill in September, despite Canada's objections to similar language in his stimulus bill two years ago.

The main objection to my argument about the treasury transfer effect is that American companies do not actually repatriate their Canadian profits and pay US corporate tax on them.

American Airlines isn't likely to cut back operations tomorrow if the mayor disregards its objections to the airport's expansion plan.

Over the objections of hundreds of major American businesses, Trump announced plans last year to yank the United States from the Paris climate accord.

My White American Father had no objections to our house hold in the way my Mother kept it.

For example, the Pew Research Center found this fall that 48 percent of Americans believe that owners of wedding - related businesses should be able to refuse services to same - sex couples if they have religious objections, while 49 percent of Americans believe those owners should be required to serve same - sex couples.

Our own President didn't even issue an official objection when the Israeli military executed with multiple point - blank gunshots to the head an American teen - aged citizen on a ship in international waters not three months ago.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

In an earlier age many Americans had Class II objections to the Mexican War and the Fugitive Slave Act.

I don't really understand the American Atheist objection here other than to try and remove any mention of religion from everywhere.

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

The general trend of Americans becoming more socially liberal has not translated to the abortion issue in the same way, and a major cause of that, it seems, is the emotivist objection to abortion.

These objections represent generalizations, of course (and, it should be stated, this whole conversation is unique to Western — particularly American — Christianity).

These objections were raised in the United States with regard to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The American Civil Liberties Union originally had no objection to a general Christian outlook in the public schools, as long as it was that of no particular sect.

For example, the American bishops declared in November 1971 that the United States» military action in Vietnam was unjust, and they gave support to selective conscientious objection.

We are on our way to the approval of homosexual conduct, despite the moral objections of most Americans, because the Court views such moral disapproval as nothing more than redneck bigotry.

There were valid objections to the Bush proposal, but Obama removed it without exacting anything in return from Russia, and he did so in a way that undercut the position of American allies.

Things might very well be different, however, with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on April 11 was empowered, on a permanent basis and over strenuous American objections, to try individuals» including sitting heads «of «state» for geno cide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

I mean, within the minority that objects to it, are most of the claims that it supports racism (i.e. liberal objection), or that it falsely displays American society as racist (i.e. conservative objection)?

Dan Maffei joined President Obama in ramming through Obamacare over the objections of the American people and he perpetrated the «If you like your plan, you can keep your plan» whopper we now know to be untrue.

Demos would also like to see the end of right - to - work laws, presumably over the objections of the 71 percent of Americans who supported them as of 2014.

New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand expressed her objections to repealing insurance protection that is currently covering 20 million Americans.

He also called on all concerned Americans to write letters of objection to newspapers, harangue their local elected officials and use the hashtags #NotNormal and #DontNormalize on social media to decry any effort to present Trump's ideas as mainstream.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who like Senator Stewart Cousins, is African American, says he has no objection, but it's not up to him.

Over the objections of Rangel and his supporters, the federal court overseeing the just - completed congressional redistricting process declined to stretch Rangel's district northward to take in more African - American voters, and instead increased the Hispanic population in the district, raising it to 55 percent of the overall population.

I enjoyed reading about how she overcame all of those issues, but my favorite part of the book was her explanations on how she handled common objections, combated anecdotal evidence, and dealt with negativity from people who were threatened, and / or didn't understand why she chose to give up the standard American diet for a plant - based lifestyle.

Of course, any argument that soy is unhealthy tends to raise the «Asian objection»: Asians are so much healthier and longer - lived than Americans and they eat a lot of soy, so it must be healthy.

Instead of criticizing 401ks because they give American workers enough rope to hang themselves, a cogent and reasonable objection that would be widely ignored, they attempt to whip up populist sentiment against (largely imaginary) Wall Street fee gouging.

Free investing tip: When it comes to answering client objections regarding American Funds, they're mostly untrue, backwards, and just wrong.

Eventually, despite many objections, the breed standard emerged but no one was too happy with the name «pit pull» and the breed became known as the Staffordshire Terrier (it was later changed to the American Staffordshire Terrier).

The only question remaining is how much ecological destruction will be tolerated, and how many irreplaceable North American species will be lost, before there is sufficient political will to stop listening to the «pet» lobbyists» and their corporate sponsors» selfish objections and do what needs to be done.

In an objection to the Orbitz deal filed with the U.S. Justice Department, the American Hotel & Lodging Association asserted the deal would raise consumer costs and hurt small hotel operators.

Leaving aside the question of why Piper chose this late date to register her objections [iii], is there merit to her claim that African American artists would be better served by inclusion in «multi-ethnic exhibitions»?

Leaving aside the question of why Piper chose this late date to register her objections [3], is there merit to her claim that African American artists would be better served by inclusion in «multi-ethnic exhibitions»?

Defying her parent's objections, Edith moved to New York City in her early twenties and enrolled at the Art Students League, where she studied under the guidance of noted American Impressionist William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916).

This consensus lasted only a few days before it was demolished by an angry cascade of angry objections to the inclusion of Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket, a semi-abstract rendering of a photograph of the corpse of Emmett Till, an African - American youth who was brutally lynched in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.

Until Americans understand this and make known their objections to the electricity price increases to their elected representatives, they will be vulnerable to the CIC's falsehoods and untrue assumptions concerning the supposed need for and advantages of a major expansion of «renewable» sources of electricity.

You had to know this was coming... A new piece in Scientific American highlights the objections of some scientists over claims that the world's largest geologic carbon sequestration project in Saskatchewan is leaking.

What I think are wrong and spurious are the objections to putting «American» in the name.

My comments start from three propositions which are rooted in constitutional theory: (1) absent constitutional objection, legislation binds; (2) administrative decision - makers enabled by statute can only go so far as their home statute allows (3) it is a court's job, on any standard of review, to enforce those boundaries; in American terminology, to «say what the law is» (Marbury v Madison; Edmonton East, at para 21).

The basis of the plaintiff's objection is that Mr. Khadr was captured by American Forces when he was fifteen years old and is thus covered by the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child and especially Section 7 of the Optional Protocol to that Convention.

On behalf of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, we filed an amicus brief arguing that religiously based objections to the right of same - sex couples to marry are not valid reasons to refuse to recognize the right.