Sentences with phrase «states act thus»

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«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

He was proved to be absolutely prophetic when, just ten years later, the court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional — thus striking down the federal statute defining marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, «I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Thus, insofar as the power of the state is associated with involuntarism and the act of love with voluntarism, we must conclude that the state can not love any more than love can be forced.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

The article states: «Pleasure and deeper union are thus secondary ends that are part of the marriage act.»

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.»

Breathing is thus the act that animates the body, the dynamic, invisible, transforming power that signifies the transition between two states of being, the link between the physical and spiritual worlds.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

Thus, stating that one feels uncomfortable observing acts that devalue women and endanger their well - being is most certainly not misogyny.

1973 expressly allows States to act either nationally or through regional arrangements, thus expressly permitting transfers to or assistance of other coalition members but not otherwise.

This needs to work within the framework of the Act and be agreed by the Secretary of State, thus allowing for different arrangements in different places.

Thus, at this moment Catalonia would be part of EU despite the political tension and despite the acts of sovereignty of Catalonia and despite the police and legal repression of the Spanish state over the Catalans.

Those who would look to reduce funding, thus weakening our libraries, should review these findings before acting,» stated Chairman Connors.

In the 1970s, both Europe and the United States adopted the «The clean air act amendments», which required filters in factories, thus reducing acid emissions and this is what we can now see the results of.

(Under the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, same - sex couples are not eligible for a federal tax credit on health insurance and are thus taxed for the benefit, even if a workplace happens to be required by state law to provide it for same - sex couples.)

An analysis of almost 18,000 popular free apps from the Google Play store found almost half lacked a privacy policy, even though 71 percent of those appear to be processing personally identifiable information and would thus be required to explain how under state laws such as the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA).

70 However, this has been construed non-substantively and claims by individuals or groups, claims against governments who remain inactive and claims against private parties have been regarded as impermissible.71 Nevertheless, the CEDAW committee has finally recognized violence against women as a type of sex discrimination, thus making states accountable for «private acts» if they fail to prevent, investigate or punish discriminatory acts of violence.72

Thus far, neither Congress, which has not even come close to fully funding the No Child Left Behind Act, nor most states, which have raised their academic standards but not their funding levels to a commensurate degree, have stepped up to the plate.

Unlike the Charter Schools Act upheld in Booth, which provided for a mix of state and local powers, the voucher program gave the local school board, in the court's words, «no substantial discretion over the educational program embodied in the voucher program,» thus violating the state constitution.

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Thus their disappointment with the Every Student Succeeds Act's devolution of power to the state and local levels.

Instead, districts act within the policy system, vying with state actors at all stages of policy making to ensure that policy actions will be acceptable.291 And, after state policies have been enacted, they must still be implemented; in matters of implementation, too, local districts and state agencies use personal contacts to negotiate how both parties can best respond.292 Thus, even though states have legitimate authority, it is exercised through informal and formal networks that help to shape local responses to state policy.

Charter schools, like all public schools are subject to the Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA), thus are subject to the state's collective bargaining laws.

Most likely what will happen is the late payment will not be removed and you will get a letter from the creditor stating that after careful research it has been identified that the current reporting is correct and the Fair Credit Reporting Act Law will not allow them to change that information as it would be incorrect and thus against the law.

It was thus distinct from the welfare benefits provided under Title I of the Act and from the various state «old - age pensions.»

The latest game from Edmund Mcmillen, developer of Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac and a huge etcetera, has stated that The Legend of Bum - bo acts like a sort of prequel to the Isaac's story, thus confirming that both are set in the same in - game universe.

Duchamp distinguished his «readymades» from other «found objects» by stating that, whereas «found objects» are chosen for their interesting aesthetic qualities, «readymades» are mass - produced objects transformed into art by the artist's mere act of selection - thus no exercise of taste is required or implied.

But maybe we are to much trapped in a world separated by money, hate and greed and thus we will go down in history, because we were unable to change and act united to preserve the ecosystem states we had during the Holocene.

Thus, one of society's most important goals now must be to develop mechanisms at the local, state, and national levels that foster and support social resilience — a shift From Me to We based thinking and acting.

Of course, to make such a decision, the president needs to act on good information, which the State Department thus far has failed to provide.

Heat picked up at the surface is thus rapidly vertically mixed and transported by all three mechanisms — conduction, convection and radiation — acting at different length scales and with considerable and non-ignorable chaotic and self - organized emergent mesoscale structure — to produce an atmosphere that, as you note, ends up somewhere between the DALR and isothermal most of the time, although inversions (warmer on top) or with a gradient even larger than the DALR happen all the time, and are unstable or transiently metastable states with some lifetime and break apart and perhaps reform somewhere else as the conditions that favor them recur.

Thus, in addition to US interests in climate change policies, President Obama acknowledged that the United States has obligations, responsibilities, and duties to act.

A New York Court judgment concluded the Nigerian state had thus acted as a «straw man».

A classic example is coal - fired power plants in the United States that were built before the Clean Air Act and are thus exempt from the obligation to install scrubbers.

Thus it is a type of immunity limited in the acts to which it attaches (acts of state) but will only end if the state itself ceases to exist.

«In Canada, the Indian Act is the central tool by which the federal government rendered itself the authority, under s. 91 (24), to completely manage the affairs of Indians, thus making hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people wards of the federal state.»

This picture has been complicated somewhat by the decision of the ECJ in Rottmann that when Member States determine the conditions for the revocation of this status from specific individuals then they act within the scope of EU law and thus their executive action must fulfil the conditions of the principle of proportionality.

So here we have an act of Congress under the present Constitution saying states could exist within the boundaries of the U.S. that would not yet be admitted states, thus although they were states, the equal - footing doctrine would not apply to them.

He therefore considered that a controller is established in a Member State if that Member State acts as the place of establishment for this revenue - generating limb of the enterprise and thus bridges the two (interrelated) limbs of the business, even if the technical data processing operations take place elsewhere [67].

The Supreme Court in its judgment of 23 October 2013, and in an enhanced bench of seven judges, unanimously held that the definition of terrorism in the Terrorism Act 2000 was intended to be wide and could thus include acts by insurgents against the armed forces of a state anywhere in the world in the context of a non-international armed conflict.

Thus state A's law might require a guardian to obtain court authority for certain acts but the law of state B would not then the measure may not operate in the way originally intended.

On July 27, 2016, a decision by an Administrative Judge on the Illinois Human Rights Commission stated that while Freedom to Work satisfied the definition of «aggrieved party» for the purposes of filing a charge, it could not satisfy the definition of an «employee» according to the Illinois Human Rights Act in order to claim discrimination, and thus the charge of discrimination was dismissed.

The rational debate considers what measures are needed to track and, if necessary, take action when Canadians head overseas to join up with a group like Islamic State, thus almost inevitably becoming implicated in such international crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and nationally criminal acts of terrorism.

Thus, the Ontario Evidence Act states that «in the absence of evidence to the contrary», proof of a conviction in Canada is proof that the crime was committed.

Notwithstanding that it had instructed Wilmer Hale, London - based solicitors who had represented it at all stages of the London - seated Arbitration and the related High Court proceedings, the KRG refused to give Wilmer Hale permission to accept service of the Claimants» application for a peremptory order, thus obliging the Claimants to serve that application in accordance with the slow and cumbersome provisions set out in section 12 (1) of the English State Immunity Act 1978 and Rule 6.44 of the English Civil Procedure Rules (the «English CPR»).......

When making the ex parte order I was informed that the DIFC had no equivalent to the English State Immunity Act and that there was thus no requirement to serve through diplomatic channels.

Thus, Article 22, entitled «Scope of Application,» states that the «Treaty shall apply to offenses specified in Article 2 committed before and after this Treaty enters into force,» and Article 2 directs that» [e] xtradition shall take place, subject to this Treaty, for willful acts which fall within any of [the extraditable offenses listed in] the clauses of the Appendix.»