Sentences with phrase «act as a disadvantage»

«While most of the regulation springs from good intention, much of it in practice acts as a disadvantage to economic activity.»

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Indeed, as more information has moved to the cloud, data that is hosted in the U.S. has actually been seen as being less secure because of the government's Patriot Act powers — and that could be a competitive disadvantage for companies based here.

Oppression Claimed to be systemic and part of group consciousness, as well as individual acts, that disadvantage certain social groups.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

As Greg Noth pointed out on Think Progress, one of the ironies here is that the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act actually expands access to food for economically disadvantaged kids through a variety of programs.

Geography will have a very significant impact here, while first past the post electoral systems, such as the one used in the United Kingdom, will always act to the advantage of the largest parties and will significantly disadvantage the smaller parties, unless their votes are strongly clustered in a specific geographical region — e.g. Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

d) the net effect of such visa fraud by a very few Honourable MPs as outlined in this letter is to raise the bar of suspicion against all such applicants, which is of course regrettably to the huge disadvantage of those very many MPs who do act honourably at all times.

Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: «Previous military ethos programmes have had a positive impact on those who have taken part — it's right that we extend this opportunity to the most disadvantaged pupils so they can achieve the same outcomes as their peers.»

For example, through subtle acts of exclusion, as bystanders who ignore racist incidents, or through social practices and structures that discriminate and disadvantage different ethnic and cultural groups.

As part of the «War on Poverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in poverty.

For over a decade now, test - based accountability has acted as a sort of insurance policy to make sure disadvantaged and struggling students are not ignored.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

New Leaders calls on states and districts to ensure that local implementation serves disadvantaged students as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is signed into law.

The civil rights movement of the 1960s and»70s gave birth to legislation such as 1965's Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which launched the Title I program to help level the playing field for disadvantaged kids.

From the passage of the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965, the federal government's role has been to protect historically disadvantaged students and ensure that they have the same opportunities as their more advantaged peers.

To settle for schools that simply act as institutions of containment for disadvantaged children seems a strategy of despair.

Formed in 2012, the Games On Song choir is made up members of the games industry who volunteer their time and voices to sing and raise money for GamesAid; a UK based video games charity which acts as an umbrella to support a number of smaller charities who help disadvantaged and disabled children and young people.

GamesAid is a UK based video games charity (Registered UK Charity # 1081706) which acts as an umbrella to support a number of smaller charities who help disadvantaged and disabled children and young people.

If the process of offering first dibs on available artworks to higher profile buyers acts against the interests of those who aren't as renowned, a waiting list disadvantages collectors even more by requiring them purchase more than just what they wanted.

This argument can be described as the Tragedy of the Commons: for any individual country acting alone, reducing greenhouse gas emissions could potentially cause an economic disadvantage.

The act of voluntarily paying for carbon reduction projects is often perceived favorably by green - minded consumers, and it's easier to tell a good story about innovative projects in disadvantaged communities than to focus on dry subjects such as incremental -LSB-...]

However, these disadvantages, which were only rarely noticed, are more than outweighted by an enormous advantage: progress not only explains the past without breaking up the contimuum but it can serve as a guide for acting in the future... Progress gives an answer to the troublesome quesiton, And what shall we do now?

Drawing on comparisons to Brown v. Board of Education, the complaint argues that the act creates race - based disadvantages for American Indian children, including a proposed class of all off - reservation Native children in Arizona, represented by family law attorney Carol Coghlan Carter as next friend.

If a person pretends such a marriage, and proclaims it to others, the law considers it as a malicious act, subjecting the party against whom it is set up to various disadvantages of fortune and reputation, and imposing upon the public (which for many reasons is interested in knowing the real state and condition of the individuals who compose it) an untrue character; interfering in many possible consequences with the good order of society, as well as the rights of those who are entitled to its protection.

In UK law, indirect discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 can only be established if the individual has the same characteristics as the disadvantaged group.

the regime was indirectly discriminatory as it disadvantaged those claimants with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 («EqA»); and

The Education Act 1998 defines educational disadvantage as «the impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools».

Previous Native Title Reports have commented on the Commonwealth's respondent funding scheme, 81 noting its effect in hardening the positions of those who already have their interests protected in any event, 82 and its seeming encouragement of litigation over negotiation.83 During the consultations, an NTRB in Queensland expressed frustration at the inequality created when mining and other companies are financed directly by the Attorney - General, putting NTRBs (and therefore the traditional owners they represent), with limited funding as described above, at a disadvantage when appearing in arbitration hearings about the doing of future acts.

For many women, pregnancy acts as a significant prompt to quit smoking.8, 9 Around one in five pregnant smokers quit by the time of their first antenatal visit.10, 11 Those who experience social disadvantage, and those who are heavy smokers, less educated, or exposed to SHS in the home are less likely to quit.12, 13

The preamble to the Native Title Act 1993 (the «Act») records Parliament's recognition that as a consequence of dispossession Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders have become, as a group, the most disadvantaged in Australian society.