Sentences with phrase «act counter to»

It allows individuals and families to «vote with their feet» — to move to jurisdictions that they like, where the authorities don't act counter to their liberties and preferences.

Religious zealots who proclaim these deep religious beliefs who then act counter to those very beliefs make no sense to me, any sane person realizes this type of behavior and comments as simply hypocrisy.

The confusion is not unexpected: cryptocurrencies were designed to act counter to government - run currencies.

Acting counter to our ingrained Pavlovian biases is a matter of the brain recognizing the conflict between the rational course of action and the instinct.

But Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries argued that the NAACP was acting counter to its mission.

The court disagreed, stating that the «best interests» imposed a duty on the buyer's representative to help buyers achieve their goals, not merely to avoid acting counter to buyers» interests.

Not exact matches

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

The expansion of the industry also runs counter to B.C.'s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a commitment to reduce carbon pollution 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020, he said.

Whether Congress will act to counter Trump's tariffs is a much more politically complicated question.

Some would argue that by acting cautiously on balance sheet normalization (without actively countering impacts of ECB policy measures), Fed policymakers have partially ceded control of financial conditions to foreign monetary authorities, but the same can be said about other central banks as well, for long - term rates are correlated among advanced economies:

Others counter that under Section 125 of the Trade Act of 1974, Congress delegated to the president the power to terminate obligations under free trade agreements.

Thus, in using force to counter Abedini's alleged evangelism - an oppressive act alien to Islam - Iran's religion cuts only its own throat.

The only way to counter ignorance and fear, which are always behind violent acts like these, is through education and understanding.

They use no weapons, no violence to counter violence, but rather rely on acts of loving resistance and noncooperation.

As a member of a worldwide organisation of very different people in different contexts that holds and acts on views that sometimes run counter to what is popular, I would like to encourage you to hold fast.

It is one which Christians, especially Christian women, need not only to despise but to counter proudly and vigorously with their words and their deeds; i.e. because they have thought things out and are acting according to their own values instead of yielding to peer - pressure.

We found it way too spicy as well, and so I googled how to counter act spicy food in a dish.I added two huge tablespoons of raw honey, and a generous splash of half and half.It turned out delicious Kerstin!The next time I will add less cayenne, because I said the same thing» I should have listened to my gut), but Hubby liked it so much, I will make it exactly the same, but with the honey and half and half...

I like to use ginger to counter act the flavor of the strong veggies, in this case the kale, parsley and celery.

Tried adding more oats and peanut butter to counter act the milk but made them far too thick.

they are both player who act like wingbacks it is very rare for a team like bayern to hit you on the counter It shows that your are either complacent or just lazy.

It was his time with Bayern when he innovated a new position called «Sweeper» playing behind the two central defenders and act as another line of defense while also had to licence to move the ball out of defense in counter attacks.

You make some very good points and most i agree with... however, i have a couple points... 1) the invisibles were efficient, like Chelsea now they only need two / three players and a couple of top passes to score, they caught teams on the break, against the top teams arsenal cant do that, to many passes cause the counter to fail and then the hole team wants to get in on the act leaving the goal exposed..

Parents acting on imperfect information scared about insufficient breastmilk, afraid to try cans of formula and bottles sitting on the kitchen counter «just in case.»

He even acts out various stories in the living room (with elaborate sets, including couches on their sides and piles of cushions to jump into off our counter — not something a mama would think of regularly).

There is too much sugar added to flavored yogurts, that it often counter acts the acidophilus properties)

The Obama - is - a-Muslim emails were more insidious, since their effect had to be countered one - at - a-time rather than through a nationally televised speech, and the very act of denying them seemed to give them more credence in some people's eyes.

The lefty duo's final argument: Now that Cuomo has succeeded in leading the nation on gun control, he could do so again on this issue, being the first to act in a significant way to counter the power of big money in politics since the US Supreme Court's January 2010 Citizens United decision.

Osborne reeled off the numbers — the highest upward growth revision since the millennium, a fall in the trade deficit, action on business rates to counter Labour's focus on SMEs, extending tax relief to regional theatre as an act of punishment against the provinces.

Perfect — give people a chance to act (and to exercise their fundraising muscles) without seeming selfish, a nice counter to the endless «gim me gim me gim me» emails bombarding our inboxes these days.

He criticises them harshly; for him their response to the Oslo agreement had been characterised by scandals, self - harm and discord, and the factions acted without enthusiasm and had no plan to counter the Oslo agreement.

And learn how social media tools helped people to overcome psychological barriers to acting against the government, to report human rights violations, to counter official messages, to collaborate and ultimately to overthrow an entrenched regime.

That led rebel Mark Pritchard to counter by claiming that the «ultimate act of self - indulgence» would be to ignore the will of the British people, who he said were angered by rising EU spending.

In 2010, when our party was in the majority in the House under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, we passed the Disclose Act, a bill designed to help counter the effects of Citizens United, but Senate Republicans stymied it.

The Republican challenger, who is severely underfunded compared to Cuomo, has taken to robo calling voters to try to counter act the negative image that Cuomo's ads created.

Enenche said in a statement, «In compliance with the recent Presidential directive by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, GCON, to service Chiefs to move to Maiduguri, the epicentre of the North - East Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorism Operation, the Service Chiefs have commenced the Command and Control of the Operation from the Military Command and Control Centre in Maiduguri.

The measure is a counter proposal to one advocated by New York Rep. Chris Collins (R - Clarence) and Rep. John Faso (R - Kinderhook) as part of the failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The implementation of SAFE Act is not only going to cost NY state 36 million dollars a year, it has created a hostile environment for both in - state and out of state sports men and women and shooting enthusiasts who now risk committing felony crimes for the countless technical criminal violations created by the SAFE Act for possessing items which can be purchased over the counter in all our neighboring states.

The coroners and justice bill contains plans originally included in last year's Counter Terrorism Act which would make some inquests where national security is judged to be under threat held out of the public eye.

A Republican Senate and Congress will be elected to counter act the Democratic President.

My fear is that the first Anglican church, synagogue or mosque that says, «It offends our principles and the basic tenets of our religion's faith», will be countered by the zealots of Stonewall moving in, saying, «We're going to sue under the Equalities Act and the Human Rights Act».

The counsel to the federal government, Mohammed Diri, however countered the application on the grounds that it did not fulfil certain conditions spelt out in section 162 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

In contrast to their one - on - one televised debates, which have consisted largely of Stringer alluding to the «black socks» prostitution scandal that ended Spitzer's career as governor (and Spitzer countering by pointing to the array of entrenched financial interests who along with Lena Dunham are backing his opponent), the candidates used this forum (co-hosted by Democracy for NYC, Living Liberally, and ACT NOW) to fill out their visions for how the office might be more of a progressive force than it has been under incumbent John Liu, the longshot Democratic mayoral hopeful.

The Republican challenger, who is severely underfunded compared to Cuomo, has taken to robo - calling voters to try to counter act the negative image that Cuomo's ads created.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

TIME is running out for the US government to counter claims that it is acting illegally by restricting the export of data encryption technology on the Internet.

Setting disciplines against each other also runs counter to the principles in the COMPETES Act, and the need to maintain a strong research basis across all areas of science.»

Authorities have to act fast, he says, by taking even the most bizarre rumors seriously and countering them with facts.

Currently, although it is known that Chd1 binds to euchromatin, the exact mechanisms of how Chd1 counters heterochromatin formation are unclear; it may act to prevent the spread of heterochromatin areas to euchromatin.

Illustrative of this serendipity is a discovery made in 2009 by LJI scientist Toshiaki Kawakami, M.D., PhD., who, while testing whether a particular enzyme might be acting to counter allergies (his area of expertise), engineered a mouse to lack that factor and found it, to his surprise, that it developed blood cancer.