Sentences with phrase «government act standing»

Democratic Assemblyman from Orange County James Skoufis introduced his Integrity in Government Act standing with a number of local elected officials.

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The memo stipulates that the federal government would not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana so long as officials acted to keep it from migrating to places where it remained outlawed, and out of the hands of criminal gangs and children.

Prior to 2008, the federal government, under the Financial Administration Act (FAA), had standing authority to refinance its market debt.

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

Given the long - standing split in the Israeli electorate as to how to act in the peace process, did the Rabin government, in order to act at all, have to act as it did?

Johannesburg (CNN)- Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for.

is this not what these soldiers have been fighting and dying for «freedom» that's why we live in this country to have the freedom to live and have our own beliefs without the government telling us how we should live and act im proud of this soldier for standing up for his beliefs that's what he is fighting for if you holly rollers want forced religion then move to another country

He maintains that it simply stands for the power of the Court, as a coequal branch of government, to act on its own interpretation of the Constitution in deciding what it can and can not do.

«Should the federal government choose to act, we stand ready to cooperate.»

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

A Home Office spokesperson said: «It's long - standing practice, as set out in the Immigration Act 1999, for the police and government to share information for immigration purposes or the assisting of police work.»

Standing with elected officials, good government groups, union members, and voting reform advocates outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, Schneiderman released the legislation, called the New York Votes Act.

«We hope that that dedicated source of funding identified by the government to supporting the Mental Health Fund in the Act will help resolve this long stand financial challenge in the psychiatric front.»

Action despite partisanship is the core of the Cuomo narrative (he articulated it this week during a speech to David Gergen and students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) but the SAFE Act did lasting damage to his political standing with moderates and Republicans who admired his fiscal management.

The prime minister later stood up to defend the government's programme for the next 12 months, saying: «This is a government that is taking the tough decisions to help families who work hard and do the right thing, acting for the long term, governing in the national interest.

The position of the Federal Government is that in view of the fact that Cameroon has been a major key player in the war against insurgency and the involvement of Cameroon in fighting for the stability of Nigeria, it will be out of the foreign policy context of Nigeria to abandon Cameroon and the acting president directed me — and I have communicated appropriately that if the only vote that will come to Hayatou will be from Nigeria, Nigeria should stand with Hayatou.»

We request the rest of the Nigerian people and others around the world who have stood in empathy for the cause of our ChibokGirls to join our movement in prevailing on the Federal Government to act on our Demand.

The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.

It stands for the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act, which was passed in 1992 and designed to increase government oversight of the mortgage industry.

During and since this time, I attended ministry - sponsored workshops, presented before and submitted comments to the standing committee and the EBR registry on the Green Energy Act, attended meetings at government level, submitted information to provincial and federal health officials, to the senate, to the Premier to the Prime Minister, and so on.

As it stands now, by the end of TARP the government may not have lost any money on these particular big banks — all of which were targeted by the Dodd - Frank Act.

You may or may not be aware that when George Smitherman held the «energy» portfolio and shortly after he introduced Bill 150, the Green Energy and Green Economy Act (GEA), he appeared before the Standing Committee on General Government in 2009 and said this:

Counsel Molly Reynolds has contributed to a House of Commons Standing Committee Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics report of its recommendations to the government on revising the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

Seriously Consider: The Government House Leader says that «the government will seriously consider these recommendations of the Standing Committee when it plans its amendments to the Canada Elections AGovernment House Leader says that «the government will seriously consider these recommendations of the Standing Committee when it plans its amendments to the Canada Elections Agovernment will seriously consider these recommendations of the Standing Committee when it plans its amendments to the Canada Elections Act».

Government Contracts: Stands out as «a star junior», who is often instructed to act on high - profile procurement cases.

If enacted, the Act will provide that no person shall knowingly represent or advise a person for consideration — or offer to do so — in connection with an immigration proceeding or application unless the person is a lawyer that is a member in good standing of a provincial or territorial law society, or a member of a body designated by the government, effectively making it a criminal offence to operate as an unlicensed immigration consultant.

That is where matters stood until 2008 when the federal government amended the regulations under the Act to require lawyers to collect and maintain certain information about their clients and the clients» activities.

The value of that solidarity was acknowledged earlier at the conference by Warren Mundine, Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, who said he had been urged to take a public stand on the Federal Government's proposed repeal of Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by the Jewish Board of Deputies and Chinese community.

Various parties have standing to participate, and they may be funded by the Australian Government to participate in the proceedings under Section 183 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)(the Native Title Act).

Finally, when federal and state governments have provided a mortgage debt relief act for investment properties and commercial properties, then I will stand up and cheer.