Sentences with phrase «act of independence»

This act of independence ushered in a decade of artistic innovation and exploration.

Traveling solo as a woman is an act of independence and courage.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

The repudiation of odious debts would be an act of independence by the debtor nations that could greatly decrease the power of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to shape their economies for the sake of greater profits and power for transnational corporations.

Not exact matches

After the Enron and WorldCom scandals of 2002, the Sarbanes - Oxley Act was instituted in the United States to, among other things, increase the independence of outside auditors when they review corporate financial statements.

The CHOICE Act also takes away the independence of the CFPB by subjecting the director to being fired by the president for no reason.

Each member of the Audit Committee shall meet the independence standards and expertise requirements of the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rules promulgated thereunder, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), and other applicable laws and regulations, in each case, as of the Firm's most recent annual meeting.

The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee qualifies as an «audit committee financial expert» as defined under applicable SEC rules and also meets the additional criteria for independence of audit committee members set forth in Rule 10A - 3 (b)(1) under the Exchange Act.

-- Title X of the CHOICE Act, the brainchild of the R's on this committee, proposes to micromanage the Federal Reserve in ways that would be hugely detrimental to its independence and its ability to carry out its mandates.

Both were born after India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, and both came to the United States after the Hart - Celler Act of 1965 abolished national origin quotas.

Ethereum has been acting week throughout the weekend and the Independence day holiday, and the coin is still trading below the $ 275 level and the declining short - term trendline, while several of the smaller coins are already in short - term uptrends.

The Approved: May 23, 2014 Committee is not required to assess the independence of any compensation consultant or other advisor that acts in a role limited to consulting on any broad - based plan that does not discriminate in scope, terms or operation in favor of executive officers or directors and that is generally available to all salaried employees or providing information that is not customized for a particular company or that is customized based on parameters that are not developed by the consultant or advisor, and about which the consultant or advisor does not provide advice.

The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee qualifies as an «audit committee financial expert» as defined under applicable SEC rules and also meets the additional criteria for independence of audit committee members set forth in Rule 10A - 3 (b)(l) under the Exchange Act.

All religions for obvious reason (male domination) shows extreme hatered for females with islam as the center of these haters, but christainity is only second due to strong men such as Aams, Franklin, handcock, Jefferson and Washington acting with reasoning in creating the declaration of independence that created this country.

The human link between them is obviously the person of Naaman, and if these acts are all petty, insignificant, and of no evident worth, it is because God respects the independence of Naaman just as he does that of each of the other characters in the story.

Nevertheless, it is disturbing to see so many young people acting on the supposition that independence means escape from the sense of duty, freedom from compelling moral obligation.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

In that case, God does not force His human children, nor do they act in entire independence of God's concern.

Every declaration of independence such as those of Venezuela and Bolivia can increase the likelihood that economically enslaved nations will begin to act in their own interest.

11:15), in Elijah (I Kings 19:4), in Jonah (4:3), as also in Jeremiah and Job, the wish or request for death is seen in the Yahweh faith as an act of defiance of deity, an unwarranted gesture of independence, a bitter — perhaps the bitterest — protest of disrespect of Yahweh.

Infinite transcendence to being as such, hence independence and indifference with regard to a definite finite object within the horizon of this absolute transcendence:, this infinite transcendence exists only insofar as it envisages the original unity of being in every act that is

Then 14 years after the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed «all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,» the lie was embedded in the U.S. legal structure through the Naturalization Act of 1790, which barred the rights of citizenship from both free and enslaved black people.

The War for Southern Independence was caused by a myriad of immoral acts, usurpations, and the threat to «domestick» institutions however, inherently it was about the expansion of the power of the central state to benefit an elite.

What seems important is the distinction of the Church from the realm and rule of God; the recognition of the primacy and independence of the divine reality which can and does act without, beyond and often despite the Church; and the acceptance of the relativity yet indispensability of the Church in human relations to that reality.

If these selves are not partially capable of self - determination and thus partly free to wish, choose, and act in independence of the rest of the universe, then they are not distinct selves at all but are indistinguishable from a cosmic causal system.35 Similarly, as explained above, Hartshorne holds that love in the form of sympathy, either immediate or mediate, is a fundamental feature of the human condition and of the total cosmos.

Dave Righetti is famous for throwing a no - hitter on Independence Day, and now he's famous for grabbing a one - hitter on Memorial Day, but seriously, folks, Hunter Strickland was acting like a freak, and it took three of his teammates to corral him.

The simple act of letting your baby or toddler make choices is a great way to encourage early independence.

Assuming that these concepts are operationally defined (independence or dependence) it is highly likely that childhood independence, defined here as some measurement of a child's ability to act alone or to make a decision alone, or to solve a problem alone, or to comfort itself, is likely produced in any number of ways, and it may be an accurate description pertinent only to the domain within which it is being measured.

Since a toddler won't usually have the same kind of need to assert her independence or act negatively toward her grandparents as she does with you, she may be more cooperative in using the potty when she's with them.

We read about the early days of Ghana's politics towards independence the yielding of Parliamentary Leadership of the 1956 Parliament by Chief S.D Dombo to Prof K.A Busia after the fusion of the various parties which were affected by the Discrimination Avoidance Act introduced by the CPP, namely; NLM, GCP, NPP, Islamic Party, Ga Shifo Mo Kpe, Togoland Congress Party.

The article 395 was written after all the previous articles were written in Indian Constitution hence the roots of the previous articles can be traced in Indian Independence Act 1947, Government of India Act 1935.

The Indian Independence Act, 1947, and the Government of India Act, 1935, together with all enactments amending or supplementing the latter Act, but not including the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act, 1949, are hereby repealed.

The bill in question was proposed by Tory John Stevenson, and asked «that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.»

In America they are the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Federal Constitution of 1788, Jacksonian Democracy in the 1830s, the Civil War, and the Voting Rights act of 1965.

In summary, my proposal is that following a «no» vote the Scotland Act be amended to empower the Scottish Parliament to hold a binding referendum on independence, but only if 30 years have elapsed since the last referendum or if two - thirds of all MSPs vote for such a referendum.

The desire to be free of such discretionary power does not have to be held in virtue of the belief that we ought then to proceed to use our independence to act in specific ways.

For example, the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doing something quite ordinary, signing a document but, because they did so in an extraordinary setting, with a revolution begun but not yet won, their act was extraordinary.

However, I do think any Eurosceptic will end up in in reactionary territory were they to take Powell seriously as a prophet on the substance of what «national independence» means, not least because this was already a self - professed reactionary project in 1968 (with Powell believing the British Nationality Act of 1948 was the root of all of our troubles).

In November 2013, the Scottish government pledged to use the powers of independence to reverse key aspects of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, which was implemented across the UK despite opposition from a majority of Scotland's MPs.

Meanwhile, the idea of a new Act of Union to replace the 1707 original has been floated in the past by Dennis Canavan, the then maverick Labour MP who later became chair of Yes Scotland for the 2014 independence referendum; and more recently by the likes of former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell and former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain.

Other important historic documents include a record of the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, a copy of the American Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights 1689 and the Great Reform Act of 1832.

Look at the wordings of independence act of India.

India was granted dominion status because organisations arranged talks with the then Viceroy of India which then formulated into the Indian Independence Act 1947 to grant said status:

«This N.Y.P.D. bill being advanced by Torres is neither the Right to Know Act nor a compromise, but political back - room dealing and a surrender of legislative independence to the N.Y.P.D. and the mayor,» Monifa Bandele, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, said in a statement.

Second, that the independence of the Electoral Commission notwithstanding, the Supreme Court, having found an act or action of the Commission to be unconstitutional, is vested with power under the Constitution (article 2 (2)-RRB- to compel the Commission to take such steps or actions as the court deems appropriate to undo or remedy the constitutional violation.

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

Admittedly he was an afterthought for the role, only moving into the Cabinet once the resignation of David Laws saw Danny Alexander shifted from Scotland to the Treasury, but his time there has been impressive: Moore navigated the Scotland Act through Parliament and was doing a good job in ensuring the referendum on Scottish independence was being held on the government's terms.

1.4 In the 2014 referendum, an Order in Council under section 30 of the Scotland Act 1998 was agreed by Westminster and the Scottish Parliament, recognising the mandate of the Scottish Government, and the support of the Scottish Parliament, for a referendum on independence.

Onnoghen, who had served in acting capacity for four months, had his appointment confirmed by the Bukola Saraki - led Senate after series of questions which bordered on independence of the judiciary, judicial reforms, corruption in the Judiciary as well as disobedience of Court orders.

Sir Menzies is also demanding a civil service with its «independence guaranteed» and a more «robust» Freedom of Information Act.