Sentences with phrase «acts of particular groups»

It's always dangerous when preachers, (especially on national TV) make dubious connections between particular acts of particular groups of people, and calamities and natural disasters.

Not exact matches

The reason comes down to Facebook's Relevance Score, which acts a lot like the AdWords Quality Score; determining, filtering, and suppressing ads with little - to - no relevance to a particular group of people (based largely on their interests).

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

The group spent at least $ 160,000 last year to fight a variety of bills, but paid particular attention to the Child Safe Products Act, according to records filed with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

In particular, the groups hope the Trump administration can address aspects of the Affordable Care Act considered especially vexing for social conservatives as well as concerns such as «the numerous small business owners who have been negatively affected by the push to keep people of faith out of the public square.»

A group of government reform advocates and independent fiscal watchdogs including the CBC praised in particular the «database of deals» and the Public Integrity Act, calling on the state Assembly to approve them.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

The report's school accountability approach emphasizes two equally important goals for these new systems: 1) ensuring that accountability systems drive toward equal education opportunities by creating a system for identifying and acting on chronic low performance by particular groups of students and 2) ensuring that accountability systems are broadly framed in order to drive toward a comprehensive conception of student and school success and a culture of continuous improvement rather than just shame and punishment.

Mundane elements of everyday life are appropriated to emphasize the act of making, portraying reality as it is subjectively experienced by individuals, insider groups and particular cultural arenas — each with their own visual language.

He is interested in the way music provides a sense of collectivity, acting as a catalyst for particular groups to form, shaping and influencing people's lives and identities.

To receive one of those two benefits, the Immigration and Nationality Act requires that immigrants show membership in one of five groups defined by the law, including «a particular social group.»

She has particular experience in the defence of group litigation, having acted for manufacturers, suppliers and their insurers in the «Oral Contraceptive», «Toxic Sofa» and «PIP breast implant» group actions, and advised on issues relating to hip replacements and other medical devices.

To accomplish this, the ELTA board asked a group of handpicked well - connected legal tech pioneers from all over Europe and beyond, who volunteered to act as «swinging doors» between their particular counrty or region and the international level of ELTA.

Protects you under the Human Rights Act if you are harassed because of your membership to a particular group described in the Act.

It has been held in this ruling of the Constitutional Court that the doubts concerning the compliance of the impugned legal act with the Constitution raised in the petitions the petitioners — a group of members of the Seimas and the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court — are related, inter alia, to the fact, how it is defined who are citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, what legislative possibilities for citizens of the Republic of Lithuania also to hold citizenship of another state there are, how the relations of loss of citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania are regulated (in particular, upon acquisition of the citizenship of another state).

The dispute resolution practice group has particular expertise in regulatory and judicial proceedings related to environmental law, including compilation of, representations, appeals and reviews related to the grant of environmental authorisations under the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 and the National Environmental Management Act, 1998.

A lawyer is often involved in a non-legal setting where contact is made with the media about publicizing such things as fund - raising, expansion of hospitals or universities, programs of public institutions or political organizations, or in acting as a spokesperson for organizations that, in turn, represent particular racial, religious, or other special interest groups.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government of international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government or international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

The significance of the distinction between differential treatment which can be characterised as a special measure and differential treatment that arises from the unique cultural identity of a distinct cultural group was illustrated during the parliamentary and public debates over the amendments to the NTA and in particular over the amendments which sought to remove the right to negotiate from the Act.

For example, traditional owners must respond to third party issues such as site clearances or agreeing to a particular future act which often draws attention away from developing the capacity of the group.

One reading of the current Regulation 9 (2) allows a PBC to certify their compliance with the consultation and consent functions by engaging with the whole native title holding group in relation to a particular future act.

The High Court examined section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution (the race power) in the case of Kartinyeri v The Commonwealth [1998] HCA 22 specifically in relation to a law of the federal Parliament, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997 (Cth), and whether the constitutional power under which it was enacted supported legislation that clearly disadvantaged a particular racial group.

2) The Commonwealth has the constitutional power to discriminate against particular racial groups: The race power of the Constitution was used in 1997 to enact the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997 (Cth).

The case concerned a law of the federal Parliament, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997 (Cth), and whether the constitutional power under which it was enacted supported legislation which clearly disadvantaged a particular racial group.

The kind of consideration implied by section 237 requires a case - by - case analysis of the impact of proposed future acts on a particular claimant group and claim area.

The NCB Financial Group also works in a strategic alliance with NCB Capital Impact, a non-profit Community Development Financial Institution created under the same act of Congress as NCCB with particular focus on impacting low and moderate income communities.