Sentences with phrase «against the policy at»

«That's not the appropriate use of our tax money,» Ramos said at a rally against the policy at City Hall on Thursday morning.

You are the owner and as such, you may borrow against the policy at any time while the insured is living.

One of the virtues of cash value life insurance is that insurance companies are willing to make loans against the policy at relatively favorable interest rates, because the insurance company knows that it can always foreclose on the policy (i.e., force its surrender) as collateral to repay the loan.

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At such companies sometimes it's difficult to gain approval for a work practice that goes against set policies.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

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In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Officially, this is against Twitter's policy, but if the service is doing anything at all to enforce that policy, it's not saying.

Julie Yap, a Sacramento - based partner at Seyfarth Shaw, which represents employers, said she advises companies to emphasize their policies against harassment by non-employees as well as employees, to encourage reporting of incidents, and to require robust training.

The latter suggestion goes against decades of US policy aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, and in Japan's case, decades of anti-nuclear sentiment.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

Policies are also most cost - effective when the costs are transparent, but when you see the NRDC campaigning against Keystone XL by telling Americans that their gas prices might go up, you know just how politically palatable a transparent price at the pump will be.

Trump helped push Syria back to the forefront of foreign policy debates, hinting at retaliating against a deadly chemical weapons attack.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

If tax policy should be doing anything to change the income distribution, I would prefer it lean against these strong winds of inequality rather than making life still easier for those at the top.

While that price may feel steep to some SMBs, at the very least they can follow the advice to put into practice some kind of written security - enforcement policy, even if they opt against adopting premium - price protections.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

The Department of Justice is investigating admissions policies at Harvard to see whether they discriminate against Asian - Americans.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Putting animals in the overhead compartment is against the airline's policies, which say pets are required to travel in carriers that «must fit completely under the seat in front of the customer and remain there at all times.»

Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade policy, met Trump at the White House twice last week to make the case against the tariffs and suggest alternative proposals for how to revive American steel.

If there is a danger that monetary policy will be seen as «too difficult», there is also a risk that too much will be expected of it or, at least, that its success or failure will be judged against an impossibly - high standard: it can't cure the business cycle; it can't reduce inflation costlessly; and it can't be operated with surgical precision.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

In my personal opinion, the emphasis upon taking out insurance against downside risks lies in conflict with the shift to data dependency given long and variable lags of monetary policy impacts on the broader economy which could have counselled front - loading insurance cuts rather than scattering them (if delivering any more at all) in which case precious little insurance has been taken out.

Against this backdrop, Governing Council decided to leave our key policy interest rate unchanged, as we judged that the balance of risks at present are still within the zone for which the current policy setting remains appropriate.

While they never even hinted at support for Segwit2x, and even had previously stated they were against it, it never seemed anything more than a «Policy» decision.

LESBOS, Greece (AP)-- Greek riot police fired tear gas Thursday at angry protesters on the island of Lesbos who tried to topple a police bus during a demonstration against a European Union migration policy.

US Uses «Hybrid Aggression» Against Venezuela to Oust Maduro — Defense Minister © REUTERS / Marco Bello Vladimir Padrino Lopez, the Venezuelan defense minister, lashed out at Washington's current policy toward...

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Against this background, the Board took the view at its June meeting that the economy had entered a period where the monetary policy decision would be whether to hold interest rates unchanged or to reduce them.

These expectations were given further force when minutes of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee showed that it had voted only narrowly against raising policy rates at its October mePolicy Committee showed that it had voted only narrowly against raising policy rates at its October mepolicy rates at its October meeting.

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

«The Chinese are deeply concerned and we hear now from reliable sources in Beijing who suggest the Chinese government, the Communist Party, are developing lists of U.S. interests against which they could retaliate, commercial interests, and obviously one merely has to look at top U.S. exports to China to get a quick sense of whose heads may be on the chopping block,» said one China trade policy expert who interacts closely with U.S. business.

Although compassionate in its intent to allow those who came to the United States unlawfully as children and through no fault of their own to begin the process of integrating legally into United States society, it contributes to the current crisis at the border by further signaling United States policy not to enforce its immigration laws against low priority targets.

His «skin color» has been used as a protective shield by the mainstream media, against any scrutiny, criticism of his policies, ideology, or governance, at the risk of being called a racist.

The track record of those policies, once allowed everywhere by FDR's court, has after all proved poor - to - mixed, and even in the exceptional «success story» cases, the record is at least questionable when posed against the best counterfactual scenarios of how the market would have taken care of the problem had we let it.

I am angry at Congress, more specifically any person in Congress who calls himself or herself a Christian and votes against policies and programs for the poor.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you are so against Representative Boehner because of his unjust policies against the nation's poor, then why in God's name are you paying him to speak at your university?

Desmond Tutu, then Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, had just returned from one of his trips abroad where he openly sought support for the fight against the racial policies of his country At an airport news conference in Johannesburg, he declared that he was not at all worried about his passport being confiscated yet agaiAt an airport news conference in Johannesburg, he declared that he was not at all worried about his passport being confiscated yet agaiat all worried about his passport being confiscated yet again.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

Islam at the beginning held the sword only when it was necessary to survive the wars launched against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.

The FFRF had alleged that the IRS failed to have a policy in place for investigating political activity at tax - exempt churches and religious organizations, nor did the agency enforce its 501 (c)(3) codes against electioneering.

Moms and dads wondering whether they wanted to cope with the crusade throngs at least could be confident that the kids would not be subjected to a tirade against Roman Catholics or a harangue about American foreign policy.

«These men and women are criminals, complicit in light of day defiance of the Uniform Code of Military Justice through unconstitutional proselytism, discrimination against the non-religious and establishing formal policies to reward, encourage and even at times require sectarian religious participation.

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Governments across the world — including our own — have swung into action against obesity at least at the level of inquiries, recommendations and policy initiatives.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable