Sentences with phrase «about issues of law»

I was also able to learn about issues of law and politics at an early age which shaped my desire to both teach and advocate.

Not exact matches

«I've been talking about this issue of off - duty conduct, and especially social media, for years now,» says Stuart Rudner, a founding partner at the law firm Rudner MacDonald LLP that specializes in employment law.

Free law advice: A driver once told me a story about how he had a high - priced lawyer in the back of his car during a time when he was going through a legal issue.

Law professor Eugene Volokh, who blogs about free speech issues at the Washington Post, has made the same point in the past to argue that Google's (GOOG) choice of search results are a form of free speech.

Among the things that prompted the creation of the inquiries were: financial difficulties facing DB pension plans and related concerns about DB funding rules; long simmering and unresolved legal issues, the most prominent of which revolve around the use of surpluses in DB plans; ambiguity about how EPP regulations apply to new hybrid plans; a lack of harmonization among Canadian regulatory laws; and declining coverage by EPPs in general and DB plans in particular.

So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.

This isn't an issue of law, it's about risk vs. reward.

When I interviewed local community advocate Sean Sheppard last year about Game Changer, his program that uses sporting events to bring members of law enforcement and the community together to talk about racism and other thorny issues, we met at Starbucks.

That about sums up the state of U.S. token sales in the wake of new dialogue on whether the mechanism, by which startups are issuing custom cryptocurrencies to raise funds, is compliant with the law.

Take, for instance, Florida's gun laws: A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control nonprofit formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violence laws.

-- With the spotlight on him, the president's son - in - law has become «paranoid,» CNN reports: «Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that «everyone is out to get him,» a source said... Kushner... told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking.»

It disclosed a whistleblowing mechanism for reporting violations to privacy - related issues (G3), and published information about the impact of Russian law on user privacy (G4).

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

As for this issue, it is not just about contraception, it includes abortion which is a direct violation of our Declaration of Independence, but more important, a direct violation of Gods Law.

There was, to be sure, a pastoral problem of the «troubled conscience» in the late medieval Church, brought about — to oversimplify — by the convergence of certain unresolved issues in Augustine's theology of grace with certain developments in the canon law of penance.

Amnesty International is up to no good, and they don't want you to know about it.My friend Richard Stith, professor of law at Valparaiso University, first drew my attention to the issue on the Mirror of Justice blog about a year ago.

It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to treat others as persons.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

When the Law of Love becomes the measure of whether or not an act sinful, the issue is no longer about sexual orientation, hetero or homosexuality; but whether the act is one of expressing love or exercising power / control over another.

In general, based on the 2003 interview, it doesn't look like Santorum knows how to talk or think about this issue very well; he doesn't, for example, appear to know how to distinguish the three levels of the right to privacy debate: a) the natural rights level, b) the Constitutional level, and c) the plain - old law level, state and federal.

The Bishop of Birmingham, invoking the full authority of canon law, has issued a decree about how the Mass will be celebrated in that diocese, on television or off.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

The fears about standing and about funding of religious organizations are important questions of law, but both were satisfactorily resolved under the Supreme Court's traditional standing rules and there is no reason to think RFRA would reopen the issue.

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

The only reason you people do not have an issue with the President's support of gay marriage is because you do not care about or are not bound by the laws of God.

The Republicans were freaked about JFK's Catholic issue... Then the GOP» ers are very concerned about Islamic Brothers and Sharia law rule... BUT, they seem little problem with the Book of Mormon... Hummmmmm... are they leading us to the «land of (bilk) milk and honey» now, and prosperity?

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

It seems that when teams of doorstep canvassers are sent out to chat with thousands of residents about same - sex marriage, swift and durable change occurs in the opinions on that issue held by subjects who chatted with a gay canvasser whose script told him to say that he'd really like to get married but the law won't allow it.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

«When it comes to challenges to religious liberty, the Johnson Amendment is just about the least important issue I can think of,» said John Inazu, a professor at Washington University School of Law.

Those who argue that since Christ is the end of the law, the Old Testament law is irrelevant must, if consistent, deal with the New Testament pronouncements about sexual issues, including Paul's various declarations.

My way of approaching the issue of whether to facilitate, conduct, or defend enhanced interrogation, he says, «is to urge that decisions about the detention and interrogation of such prisoner be made according to the codes of those professionals involved in the process... rather than, say, according to the law of the United States.»

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

And this time it is not about the FSS law but the issue pertains to the appointment of its present chairman.

The practice has raised fresh concerns among insiders about possible collusion issues and potential breaches of price signalling laws.

Sims» speech also sets out the ACCC's activities in relation to a number of areas of competition law (cartels, anti-competitive agreements and practices, MMP (noting the ACCC has «about» 10 in depth investigations underway)-RRB- and touches on the Harper Review and Murray Report as well as key issues surrounding privatisation, communications and water.

There are fathers standing up and speaking out across the globe about these types of issues and the laws that were created many decades if not centuries ago.

Where a couple used a known donor, issues about the donor's parental status have arisen not only under New York's law, but also in other states as well, reinforcing the importance of second parent adoptions to forestall conflicts that could arise in other jurisdictions.

Here are the videos that accompany my DN column today about critics of Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice accusing her of flip - flopping on a touchstone issue for liberals — Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

The same basic ideas that a lot of us in the Democratic political world have been talking about, that Democratic campaigns ignored big - picture messaging around the economy, the health care law, immigration and other base - mobilizing issues while still running a turnout operation that was highly proficient technically.

It's fairly rare for a backbench MP to have the opportunity to change the law of this country and there were hundreds of issues that I could have taken forward, so I took my time and thought long and hard about what I wanted to bring forward.

Many of these rules come about via statute while others emerge from the courts in the resolution of common law issues, in particular issues of tort.

While more Americans lose their jobs every day, the Obama Administration is blatantly ignoring the law of the land for a political stunt, and I hope the Administration will reconsider this wrong decision and focus on strengthening the economy and creating jobs, the number one issue the majority of Western New Yorkers care about.»

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

The fact is that the European Union issue is more important than any of that, because it's about the decision of whether you want your laws made in Brussels and that march towards ever - closer union, or whether you want our country to make its own laws, our politicians to make the laws in this country, for us to be able to determine our immigration policy, to decide how we're spending our public money.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

5.3 All the people of Rep. of Cyprus (even the President of RoC) MUST apply to the LEGAL SYSTEM of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»of Rep. of Cyprus (even the President of RoC) MUST apply to the LEGAL SYSTEM of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»of Cyprus (even the President of RoC) MUST apply to the LEGAL SYSTEM of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»of RoC) MUST apply to the LEGAL SYSTEM of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard»OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard».

Tsedeye Gebreselassie of the National Employment Law Project, Senator Daniel Squadron, and 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa, joined us to talk more about the issue of income inequality and the effort to build support for higher wages.