Sentences with phrase «act on the certainty»

A CIHT spokesperson said it welcomes this milestone on the future of High Speed 2 and looks forward to the industry being able to act on the certainty this provides.

Not exact matches

As noted by Tony Nitti at Forbes, the certainty of knowing the limits on these accelerated depreciation benefits in the future allows businesses to «finally act with some certainty over the coming years about the availability of a wide range of tax benefits.»

God is love: every Christian would agree with that Johannine affirmation, based as it is on the certainty that God acts lovingly: «Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son that we might live through him.»

We know with certainty that your prayer will blot out all his acts of impiety» (Commentary on the Psalms 61.23).

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

In the view of the EFSA opinion, and considering that the Commission is currently working on a delegated act as regards infant formula and follow - on formula: 1) Is the Commission considering extending the advertising restrictions that apply to infant formula to follow - on - formula, and if not, how will the Commission provide Member States with legal certainty that they can adopt stricter rules on advertising?

And the Privy Council, acting as their highest court, still provides a useful guarantee of legal certainty to the owners of the many corporations nominally residing on these islands.

The little activity that he does report is his opposition to the DREAM Act which would have subsidized education for illegal immigrants, and he voted «yea» on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

On the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, Rep. Scott «supported this compromise» and was optimistic for the new student loan interest rate policy.

With that in mind, Rep. Randy Weber voted for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, a current law that stemmed federal influence on student loans in 2013.

The Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 (sometimes referred to as the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, the original House version of the bill), on the other hand, called for reform.

First, the Congressional voting record on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 was used (both Senate and House of Representatives).

On student loan interest rates, Rep. Lynch opposed the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which he believed «would actually make college more expensive.»

On that note, Lucas hoped Congress could find a long - term solution which he voted for in 2013, the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

On that note, he voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which removed federal control on student loan interest rateOn that note, he voted in favor of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which removed federal control on student loan interest rateon student loan interest rates.

He signed on for the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act in 2013, but this wasn't enough for him.

He has always wanted to keep rates low which is reflected in his statements on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act.

On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill regarding student loan interest rates, aptly named the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013.

Additionally, he has voted to keep rates low the past, but he prefers that the Federal Government define rates (voted «no» on Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act).

He was a cosponsor of Warren's Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, and he also supported the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act which set interest rates low for students.

After the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act passed through the Senate, Rep. Cramer (R) commented, «we need to get beyond the discussion of interest rates to focus on the larger issue of rising tuition and student debt.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

By definition, if your condition for acting on greenhouse gases is 100 % certainty in the science, then we can never act in time to make an impact.

I suppose, on reading it again, that you could construe what I said to mean that we should not act if we have full scientific certainty... but that's obviously not what I meant, because if we have full scientific certainty (as I pointed out in my examples of seat belts and condoms) we don't need the precautionary principle at all.

That finding was a certainty given that the Act defined «welfare» to include «effects on weather and climate.»

The Department for Energy and Environment stated: «The government is acting on the Chief Scientist's recommendation that new measures are needed to improve reliability and investment certainty in the electricity sector.

Barring an act of divine intervention, I would put my money on the virtual certainty that it is game - over for the biosphere and thus all of humanity.

If you guys can't recognize the difference between something being «settled» scientifically, and people's opinions on what constitutes enough certainty to act, then this argument will go nowhere.

A driving force for the development of the internet was to provide certainty for internet service organizations on the liability exposure they may have for acts of third parties on their internet sites.

For the reasons given by the Court of Appeal, we are all of the opinion that the exclusion from the insurance policy based on art. 2402 of the Civil Code of Québec may not be set up against the heirs of the insured, as that article must, even in light of s. 34 (1) of the federal Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I - 21, be interpreted having regard to the principles of interpretation that apply in the area of insurance law so as to favour the precision and certainty of the grounds for exclusion in such matters.

«Thanks to the federal government, who has done nothing on this issue other than pass the Indian Act, there is no over-arching legislation that provides certainty in relation to acquisition of consent, unless the band and the collective self - identify,» said Charles Willms, chairman of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver aboriginal law practice, speaking at the panel, Key Legal Cases in Canada: The Current Landscape.

In the court's view, where, as here: (1) the Director under the OBCA issues a certificate pursuant to a rectification order; (2) the appellant could reasonably have sought a stay of the rectification order pending appeal; (3) the court is not satisfied that no third party acted, directly or indirectly, in reliance on the certificate issued pursuant to the rectification order and would not be prejudiced by its revocation; and (4) there are no special circumstances which justify exercising the power to cancel the certificate, thereby undermining certainty in a court - approved corporate fundamental change, the principle in Norcan requires the court to decline to exercise its authority to order the revocation of that certificate or otherwise unwind the court - approved corporate fundamental change.

This difficulty is compounded by the fact that traditional laws and customs are transmitted orally from generation to generation, so evidence of these may be restricted or inadmissible under the hearsay rule.137 This is an issue that has been identified by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Review of the Uniform Evidence Act 1995.138 The Commission proposes that the uniform Evidence Acts should be amended to provide an exception to the hearsay and opinion evidence rules for evidence relevant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs.139 The Commission also observed that there are strong arguments that the NTA should be amended as the relevant provision does not provide sufficient guidance on or certainty on the admissibility of evidence in native title proceedings.140 However, legislative amendment to the NTA falls outside the terms of reference of this review.

Consider reform of Section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, to emphasise independence and greater certainty on the level and timescale for payment of maintenance, with children's interests at their heart.

McKey urged the Senate to immediately take up and pass the Flood Insurance Market Modernization Act (H.R. 2901) and also to reauthorize and strengthen the NFIP on time and for a minimum of five years in order to provide real estate market certainty.