Sentences with phrase «affirmative acts of»

The mountain is the surface, pigment, and subject of sculptures, paintings, and video installations in Neha Choksi's exhibition, Liberty Matter, which gestures between «affirmative acts of destruction» and non-productive acts of creation.

Marking a clear departure from the retrospective impulses of the Remix paintings of the past decade, these vibrant new works focus afresh on the affirmative act of painting.

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Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

The JOBS Act did at least make verification affirmative by the sell side for the online portals instead of mere self - affirmation as before.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

Martinetti emphasized the Pope's affirmative quotation of the Emperor Manuel that «not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature».

In any case, positive value in the area of conduct occurs when there is an affirmative response to it by the person acting.

Yet deciding what it means to act justly in particular situations (whether it's a case of affirmative action or the huge global inequalities in living standards) is highly controversial.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

The khat ban is being introduced through the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) No. 2 Order, which is an affirmative instrument.

The affirmative duty to protect arises not from the State's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expressions of intent to help him, but from the limitation which it has imposed on his freedom to act on his own behalf.

• Several new statutes (the Gender Violence Act, 2005; the Equality Act, 2007) with the explicit aim of empowering women, most of them adopting affirmative action policies.

After hearing an explanation of «affirmative consent» — it requires the initiator of a sexual act to ask first, rather than waiting for his or her partner to say «no» or interpreting silence or passivity as consent — Long reaffirmed his opposition: «I really believe the governor is making a stretch during a political campaign,» he said.

Democrats in the Assembly have annually passed versions of the reproductive health act, which creates an affirmative right to abortion.

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and its affiliates administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination or based on any protected characteristics such as race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or Veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, national laws, Executive Order 11246, Executive Order 13496, the Vietnam Era Veterans» Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended, 38 U.S.C. 4214 (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 7903), regulations, and guidelines.

They believe that tackling deep racial inequities is the measure of one's commitment to educational improvement, and view measures like the DREAM Act and affirmative action as inseparable from elements of that work.

First, the Public Service Act 103 of 1994 restricts eligibility of employment in public sector to citizens and permanent residents.13 Second, the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 prioritises and optimises employment of South African citizens who are previously disadvantaged by apartheid policies in what is termed «Affirmative Action Measures (AAM).»

In the firm's early days, Bolick was known for his work opposing affirmative action legislation, and acted as one of the top strategists endeavoring to hold up the passage of the 1991 Civil Rights bill.

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(b) Each department, agency, and instrumentality (including the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission) in the executive branch shall, within one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this ACT, submit to the Civil Service Commission and to the Committee an affirmative action program plan for the hiring, placement, and advancement of handicapped individuals in such department, agency, or instrumentality.

38 USC 4212, Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Act of 1967 All federal contracts of $ 25,000 or more shall contain a provision requiring the party contracting to take affirmative action to employ qualified special disabled veterans.

Consistent with the Department's Ladders of Opportunity Initiative, DOCR recently launched a robust program for the affirmative enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

(a) This subpart is applicable to all grantees and other covered organizations under this part, and implements the requirements of section 30 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, which provides: The Secretary shall take affirmative action to assure that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex, be excluded from participating in any activity conducted with funds received from any grant made under this title.

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The statutory language in sections 480 (a)(2) and (f)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 represent an affirmative statement that distributions from certain qualified education benefits are not included in income or assets.

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Because failure to provide proper care for animals is an act of omission or neglect rather than an affirmative act, animal hoarding is considered a misdemeanor offense in most states.

The mountain is the surface, pigment, and subject of sculptures, paintings, and video installations in Neha Choksi's exhibition, Liberty Matter, which gestures between «affirmative acts...

«Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for state economy and agricultural industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product; placing enforcement under commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification requirements; requiring commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

«Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for the development and regulation of an industrial hemp industry; defining certain terms; providing for industrial hemp as an agricultural product; requiring licensing; specifying production and notification requirements; requiring rulemaking by the commissioner of commerce; providing for fees; providing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

SF 826 «Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for state economy and agricultural industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product; placing enforcement under commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification requirements; requiring commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

Under the Securities Exchange Commission's Advisers Act of 1940, investment advisers must make «an affirmative obligation of utmost good faith and full and fair disclosure of all facts material to the client.»

Hemp Production; Citing this act as the «Hemp Industry Development Act»; providing that hemp is an agricultural crop; providing legislative intent; requiring registration of hemp producers; providing registration requirements; providing exemptions; requiring rulemaking; providing for an affirmative defense to certain charges relating to cannabis; providing exceptions to other laws, etact as the «Hemp Industry Development Act»; providing that hemp is an agricultural crop; providing legislative intent; requiring registration of hemp producers; providing registration requirements; providing exemptions; requiring rulemaking; providing for an affirmative defense to certain charges relating to cannabis; providing exceptions to other laws, etAct»; providing that hemp is an agricultural crop; providing legislative intent; requiring registration of hemp producers; providing registration requirements; providing exemptions; requiring rulemaking; providing for an affirmative defense to certain charges relating to cannabis; providing exceptions to other laws, etc..

EPA's statutorily prescribed, affirmative duty under the Clean Water Act to protect the natural environment and the public health of citizens played second fiddle to the concerns of coal mining representatives at a July 14 House Oversight subcommittee hearing.

In its judgment of 26 February 2013, the CJEU responded to the first two questions in the affirmative, and clarified that Article 53 of the Charter only allows national authorities to apply higher standards of protection of fundamental rights where an EU legal act calls for national implementing measures, but not where, as in this case, the EU legal act harmonises the law between the Member States.

[Where state trooper took affirmative action of allowing police dog to be off leash, there is no immunity from suit; actions for personal injury caused by police dog will be analyzed under the dog bite common law, whether the owner of the dog knew or should have known of the dog's vicious propensities, as the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act does not permit actions under strict liability.]

Since 1998, the Washington State Medical Use of Marijuana Act has provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and of qualified patients for their medical use of marijuana.

The Supreme Court will revisit affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas, address whether dog - sniffing is considered a search in Florida v. Harris (11 - 817), and whether Amnesty International has standing to challenge section 1881a of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FICA) in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA (09 - 4112).

In Barwick v. Government Employee Insurance Co., Inc., 2011 Ark. 128 (March 31, 2011), the court properly held that the state's version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act disposed of the question in the affirmative.

Common elements of what definitions there are, are: First, malfeasance in office requires an affirmative act...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 went further, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin, while never explicitly mentioning affirmative action.

720 ILCS 11 - 20.1 (b)(1) states that an affirmative defense may be asserted if a defendant «reasonably believed, under all of the circumstances, that the child was 18 years of age or older... prior to the act or acts giving rise to [the] prosecution... he or she took some affirmative action or made a bona fide inquiry designed to ascertain whether the child was 18 years of age or older... and his or her reliance upon the information so obtained was clearly reasonable.»

So, you may assert an affirmative defense if (1) you reasonably believed the child to be 18 or older at the time of the act (s), (2) you took steps to make some kind of inquiry or investigation, and (3) your reliance on the inquiry was reasonable.

The purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to implement affirmative action to redress gender discrimination in the compensation of employees employed in female job classes.

one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.

In Quebec, the Animal Health Protection Act (R.S.Q. c. P - 42) includes sections which impose en affirmative duty of care towards animals.

During 2011 - 12 Professor Huhn coordinated the writing of and submitted appellate briefs to the Sixth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court in defense of affirmative action and the Affordable Care Act.

To be sure, there are storm clouds on the progressive legal horizon: the UT affirmative action case; Shelby County and the future of the VRA; the reargument in Kiobel; the Article III standing question in the constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act; and a host of other cases in the food chain in which the Court's conservative majority is likely to assert itself at the expense of progressives.

The duty of care to a trespasser is that the property owner, «would not be liable for anything but affirmative acts amounting to wilfulness.»