Sentences with phrase «about passing laws»

Sponsored by The HSUS in states across the country, Humane Lobby Day events give animal advocates like you an opportunity to talk to your state legislators about passing laws that protect animals.

And since the environmental threats of pharmaceuticals are not yet fully understood, some experts worry about passing laws without properly assessing the risk that they pose.

Votes in the House of Commons are not just about passing laws, or not passing laws.

It's not about passing laws or actually doing their job; it's the salary!!

While many of my colleagues agreed, they cared only about passing the law during the April — the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Fair Housing Law.

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

«These pastors were concerned about the possibility of no law passing that would protect the safety of women and children in bathrooms.»

In the early days after the 2012 law passed, at least, many were outright cavalier about the fate of the crowd's investment.

Kulich added that, according to the site's statistics, North Carolina's taste in porn is more open minded than the passing of the HB2 law would suggest — in March, viewers from the state searched the term «Gay» 319,907 times and «Transsexual» about 400,000 times.

Likewise, the president - elect has been very vocal about wanting to «dismantle» the Dodd - Frank law and Volcker Rule, two pieces of banking regulation passed in the wake of the financial crisis.

The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

Many investors worry about laws passed last year that increase the government's role in managing the pre-salt assets, closing them off from open bidding and mandating that Petrobras be the lead operator in exploiting them.

On any given day, he may or may not express the policy views associated with the American right — he will muse about raising taxes on hedge funds, or passing gun control into law, or slapping deep tariffs on foreign steel.

The story is about a man who found some friends to brighten up his gloomy life, not about religious hacks trying to pass pro-Jesus laws.

So far Rush has been wrong about everything from womans reproductive rights, endangered species, climate change, how laws and bills are actually passed in congress, drugs, alcohol, gay marriage, marriage (what is he on now his 5th?)

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

How can laws be passed if representatives reason differently about the common good?

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

Because the National, Mandatory Sunday Law that is talked about in Revelation has not been passed yet in America and it is not yet being enforced by the United States worldwide... only after this happens... then the Time of Probation will close... and then beware everyone... stand by...

You do realize you're talking about a man who passed on a lucrative law career to become a community organizer and help the poor, right?

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

Our commitment to human rights, if it is to be sustained, must depend not on practice, law, or the passing policies of governments (though we must be earnestly concerned about all of these), but rather on a promise that bestows dignity upon every person and demands of every person a respect — no, a reverence — for the dignity of all others.

Just as you can not just pass a no physical $ ex allowed law today people in 2,000 will be in disbelief that no one did anything about this animalistic practice.

They continued talking about how to put the squeeze on the Legislature to pass laws to descriminate against Jewish people.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Ireland stepped up its battle with the Roman Catholic Church over child abuse Sunday, with Justice Minister Alan Shatter vowing to pass a law requiring priests to report suspicions of child abuse, even if they learn about them in confession.

The sticker is a bit tattered, since it goes back to the controversy about «civil unions» — the Vermont law passed in 2000 establishing various legal equivalencies to marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.

Also, what was that about that verse the jesus dude said about not changing a word in the law till heaven and earth pass or whatever?

Right now, a major climate fight is blowing up in Australia — the government is about to pass a law that would cut carbon emissions and get polluters to pay.

Christians would almost be pleasant if they would stop worrying about what other people believe and stop trying to pass laws to have their beliefs enforced on all of us.

How about getting your republican friends to pass a gun law!

In his vigorous outline for the defense of marriage, published in National Review in May, for instance, Ryan Anderson chooses as the first step, «Stand Up for Our Authority as Citizens and Pass Laws Reflecting the Truth about Marriage.»

Just leave me alone about it, don't assume you know my level of intellect or happiness, and don't try to pass laws based on your religion.

The national bill is similar to laws passed in about a dozen states so far.

It seems to me that if the Republican Party was serious about appointing judges to overturn Roe v. Wade and passing laws that would make abortion illegal, they would provide voters with some specifics about how this would work out practically.

Good, maybe we can pass normal laws now without having to worry about religion rearing its ugly head.

That's what this (Republican created / Democrat passed) law was about, to force people to take personal responsibility.

I hope it gets overturned and then each aspect of it really gets debated and thought about and passed slowly one peice at a time, rather than a mad rush like this law was passed.

CNN has also published an online article about the disaster waiting to happen in Guatemala if these current laws are passed.

The sprays are now forbidden to be carried about aircraft, and they were banned for personal defense in California until a law permitting their use was passed in 1994.

My sister - in - law Estelle, an avid recycler who has played a large part in keeping Laurel dressed via hand - me - downs, passed on word about an amazing consignment event in Albany, NY.

i think it is a terrible shame that women are hassled about this — the UK has just (I think) passed a law giving breastfeeding mothers some kind of protection and it was quite controversial.

the post Cowards, Cowards about my disappointment in the Congress to pass a law on background checks, something over 90 % of the country supported!

Our sports hydration and heat illness expert, Susan Yeargin, Ph.D., ATC, has been working alongside Doug Casa, head of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, to get states to pass laws modeled on the 2009 heat acclimatization guidelines developed by a joint task force on which she and Doug served, and to educate the youth sports community about heat illness.

2013 has been a whirlwind of activity for youth sports concussion laws as a handful of remaining states passed legislation, or currently have legislation pending, leading nearly every state in America to have its own laws to educate coaches and parents about concussion prevention and recognition in youth sports.

It is with dismay that I have listened, for the past five years or so, to direct - entry midwives criticizing nurse - midwives as «medwives» and «physician extenders,» and to nurse - midwives talking about professional direct - entry midwives as if they don't know very much, and working in some states to pass exclusionary laws.

As a matter of routine, the village, which employs about 100 people, needed to update its employee policies to reflect the state breast - feeding law passed in August.

In March, Hong Kong passed a law that classified milk powder as a restricted export, alongside items like rough diamonds, mandating that anyone without a license caught exporting more 1.8 kg, about two cans of milk powder, will be fined or jailed.