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Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well as model legislation.

Not exact matches

As well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiativAs well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiativas disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

This will serve as a foundation for developing strategic information assurance initiatives against a fixed budget.

There has been strong pushback against the EFF initiative from the content industry in the US, and from others, such as IP blogger Neil Turkewitz.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

They were able to introduce their measure as a secular and rational initiative directed against religious coercion.

As an ever - growing number of natural product companies take action against climate change, a new awards program recognizes leadership and bold initiatives.

They have created banners for specific matches or moments in the season — such as the «Believe» message that was unveiled when Arsenal were perceived underdogs last month against Tottenham — and want the club to support more initiatives.

The project has brought people together regardless of background and has supported D&RFC initiatives such as «Fans for the future» and «Red card against racism».

As we move forward, we will measure each idea, decision, program, and initiative against these Core Values and determine how they will impact our three primary areas of impact: our members, the IBCLC profession, and the world.

Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after - school programs, where extra academic help is available.

Initiatives such as this are crucial to making sure that athletes have the information they need to protect themselves against lasting harm, and that their guardians and trainers help keep them healthy and safe.

Boris took promotion of the summer initiative «Playsport London: FreeSport» — launched in 2010 to encourage Londoners to get active — rather seriously as he sought to thrash the school children he was playing against.

Of course, others, such as the National Audit Office and the Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor team also hold the government to account by scrutinizing reform initiatives against such data as is available.

The statewide probe led to indictments against eight men, and again shook the foundation of political ethics in the state: Among those indicted were Joseph Percoco, who'd been close to both Andrew Cuomo and his father; Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a key economic adviser; and several top officials from LPCiminelli, a Buffalo contractor involved with millions in business as part of the state initiative.

While Cuomo is not accused of wrongdoing and isn't expected to testify, the charges against Percoco have damaged both his image as a reformer and one of his signature policy initiatives, the investment of billions of dollars in public money in to upstate economic development programs.

This was as he lauded RCCG and its leadership for deeming it fit to join the fight against the menace of drug abuse, just as he assured that the State Government would support the initiative to achieve the desired results.

For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.

Even as the campaign against Cuomo's agenda was in full swing, UFT members have continued implementing new school - based initiatives established by the UFT contract that are moving New York City schools forward, Mulgrew said.

And he says that money could be used to unduly influence the process of electing delegates, to «wine and dine» and lobby them, as well as to finance advocacy campaigns for or against initiatives that the delegates might ultimately endorse.

The AI will also serve as a point - in - time baseline against which future progress in terms of implementing fair housing initiatives will be evaluated and recorded.

Said County Executive Anthony J. Picente «This year we have added our pink ribbon initiative and lighting of the County Building as well as raising $ 1305 for our Team Oneida County participation in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, with a dress down day.

A sprawling federal initiative to strengthen Long Island against coastal storms is inching closer to becoming a reality even as doubts persist in the South Shore towns and villages that stand most to benefit from it.

The President of the National House of Chiefs also commended government for other initiatives such as the industrialization policy and the fight against corruption and environmental degradation.

As the state's dairy farmers continue to navigate a tailspin caused by reduced demand and changes in Canada's milk classification policies, the lawmaker is prioritizing fixing the Margin Protection Program (MPP), an initiative to safeguard farmers against fluctuating prices.

Dadey says the murky appropriations — which he says are simply labeled as $ 200 million for transportation, or $ 300 million for labor initiatives, for example — led to some of the criminal charges against former Speaker Sheldon Silver, and a former senate leader, Malcolm Smith, who misused the funds for personal gain.

Clinton and Huckabee have collaborated on initiatives such as the fight against childhood obesity.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

The initiative is an extension of Biden's 2016 appointment as head of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an assignment President Barack Obama extended, aimed at pulling together federal agencies and private, academic and philanthropic organizations to identify new cancer research topics, break down barriers slowing advances and pinpoint necessary investment areas to advance the fight against cancer.

The Transformational Medical Technologies (TMT) initiative, born in the US Department of Defense in 2006, was originally conceived as a five - year, $ 1.5 - billion project that would substantially accelerate the development of countermeasures to protect soldiers against biological attacks.

Beside the climate change mitigation goal, the initiative contributes to many other challenges as biodiversity conservation, food security, governance and fight against land degradation.

Considering that these standards are one of the most significant educational initiatives of our time, the fact that fewer than half of Americans know about them — and that fewer than half of those recognize what is touted as one of the biggest benefits of the Core — is concerning, particularly since in many states there is a great deal of pushback against the Common Core right now.

Participants» suggestions on how to surmount the identified challenges and barriers to effectively addressing sexual violence against women / girls or rape in general and their area in particular (probe for what they perceive as appropriate individual, community, civil society and government level initiatives)

And even as they badmouth families, they also engage in intimidating families daring to speak out on the ground, and are working together with traditional districts to push back against Parent Power and choice initiatives in states such as Mississippi and Alabama.

One - to - one computing initiatives, such as the one described here, are juxtaposed against districts where mobile technology use among students is banned.

The chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee Meg Hillier has spoken out against costly private finance initiative contracts and warned that the scheme's relaunch as PF2 is...

The chair of the parliamentary public accounts committee Meg Hillier has spoken out against costly private finance initiative contracts and warned that the scheme's relaunch as PF2 is little more than a rebrand.

The fight against school closings in Chicago travels to Rahm's house... The fight against privatization in Puerto Rico just begins, as the Governor and Education Secretary announce their initiative, and the Legislative Assembly takes up a charter law.

Her department has also taken action against various civil rights initiatives from the Obama administration such as guidance on the rights of transgender students, and her department announced it was scaling back civil rights investigations and would avoid looking into systemic issues.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

Amidst all the fanfare, however, was a growing backlash against the standards, especially among conservative state legislatures whose members increasingly saw the Common Core as a federal initiative, a directive to states from Washington.

As part of a T - Mobile and LA Angels initiative, viewers will have the option of wither a Galaxy Tab 7 or the LG G - Slate to choose from, both of which comes against a nominal rent of just $ 10 per game.

«We are focused on improving our customers» experience in - store and online as we continue to execute against our long - term strategic initiatives.

When this involves confronting enemies, the challenge is to do so on your own terms, maintaining the initiative against capable AI whose routines and actions are well randomized and who flank effectively using the same cover as you do.

The virtues of Sony's Cross Play initiative are effectively proven with PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale, as players of different versions can still compete against each other, or sync their online profiles and records between both systems.

From cultural interventions such as happenings and the Artists Against the Expressway movement, to legislative initiatives such as the AIR (Artists in Residence) re-zoning and historic district designation, the panel will consider how activism and community engagement impacted this neighborhood.

Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?

Today's funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are concentrated on giving art and artists opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?

During a roundtable discussion, several leaders of African countries that are a part of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership spoke with urgency about the need for the United States, which is also a member, to provide more money for the initiative, particularly because such forests not only provide a wildlife haven but also serve as a buffer against the buildup of greenhouse gases.