Sentences with phrase «act as an impediment»

If anything, it acts as an impediment to treatment.

«The appellant maintains that, by its nature, a tax on criminal defence legal fees will, at some level, be prohibitive or at the very least act as an impediment to or will interfere with the right to counsel since the additional cost of the tax to an accused will interfere with the financial resources available to mount a defence to the charges brought against him or her,» wrote Tax Court of Canada Justice Brent Paris, summing up the firm's case.

The current bureaucratic and administrative burdens facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations that accompany their day - to - day operation can act as impediments to running effectively which in turn can result in powerlessness.

Not exact matches

The arguments against paid sick leave, as stated in the Capital Region Chamber's petition opposing Local Law «C» on behalf of its more than 2400 area businesses and organizations, include: the proposal will hurt our economy, reduce jobs, lower the county's sales tax revenue, and act as «an impediment to attracting, retaining and growing jobs.»

There is no legal impediment hindering the Court of Appeal from returning the APGA candidate in the circumstance because the hitherto hindrance in Section 140 (2) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) has been struck down by the Federal High Court as unconstitutional.

While not all artists and writers are bipolar, «madness» can sometimes act as both an inspiration and impediment for those who are.

«Despite much progress since 1983, there remain impediments to the full realization of Parliament's intent as expressed in the Act.

The main reason for the permissibility of the Act is that it includes a «reasonable impediment» provision, allowing «registered voters with non-photo voter registration cards to vote without photo IDs, so long as they fill out an affidavit at the polling place and indicate the reason that they have not obtained an R54 - listed photo ID.»

It also includes addressing institutional and organizational problems, such as forms of law firm governance that encourage lawyers to act badly, and structural impediments to access to justice.

Act as an advisor throughout the negotiations including the development of solutions to potential impediments to a transaction.

An additional impediment to legal research in the Internet Archive is that the materials have been digitized and can only be retrieved as «volumes» and not as discrete «documents»; i.e., you can find and retrieve v. 1 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario 1914, but it's time - consuming getting to p. 317 of that volume if you're looking specifically for the Succession Duty Act, RSO 1914, c 24 (though once there, you can easily bookmark the page).

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».

The third reason Mr Willett offers as demonstrating the inefficacy of the right to negotiate is that the Act «has become a severe impediment to exploration and mining, causing massive discouragement of the former».