Sentences with phrase «aimed at conflicts»

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election law.

Therefore, while civil law is aimed at conflict resolution, criminal law takes a decisive action by protecting society from the acts of the perpetrators and giving them specific punishments.

Not exact matches

With any expenditure aimed at bettering employees, the environment, and community instead of maximizing profits for shareholders, there arises the conflict between shareholders and corporate social responsibility.

WASHINGTON, March 21 - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil operators that it said were important sources of cash for the government, an action aimed at increasing pressure on President Salva Kiir to end the country's conflict and humanitarian crisis.

Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.

The rule requires that distributors of financial products into retirement accounts proceed on the basis of a fiduciary relationship and is aimed at removing potential conflicts of interest in which distributors steer clients into products because of higher commission revenue — unless distributors operate under an exemption.

In a first approximation one would expect that in a human society built on class antagonism various aims at intensity would often be in conflict.

At the common sense level we are all aware of the reality of conflicting aims.

Then gave about those reporters taking pictures or video recording during riots or conflicts or wars these people always are the first ones aimed at and picked.

If we're going to do something in Syria, then it needs to be part of a plan that aims at consequences that makes sense as part of a larger strategy of imposing at least the negative peace of an end to conflict in Syria.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

This phase aims at the synthesis of the conflicted or competing «subpersonalities» around the conscious self or ego (a method for doing this is described later in this chapter).

The initial conflict was a three - way fight between royalists and republicans among the white population (40,000) and the free mulattos or gens de couleur (35,000), some of whom were already aiming at independence.

We have seen that there are two conflicting aims at the fulfillment of a concrescing occasion in a living person.

If this is so, what is there to prevent a conflict between the aim at our fulfillment from Jesus and the ideal aim from God?

What distinguishes the response of Jesus is that for him there was no conflict between the ideal aim from God and all the other aims at his fulfillment out of the past.

We invite all the parts involved in the conflict to prudence, to social solidarity, and to action aimed at constructing peace.

It was a peace treaty and a political settlement, aimed at bringing to an end months of conflict between the despotic king and his defiant subjects.

Britain can not pretend to hold all the cards in the Syrian conflict but a clear strategic policy aimed at halting violence based on a commitment to the twin diplomatic - humanitarian track puts us on the good side of a bad conflict.

Speaking during the programme, the Executive Secretary of NHRC Mr. Tony Ojukwu said, the training programme was aimed at broadening and equipping the security personnel who were directly involved in the ongoing counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations in the North East with the fundamental principles of Human Rights as well as Rules of Engagement in line with the acceptable local and international laws and principles of arms conflicts.

Putin's defensive posturing is aimed at reframing Europe's perceptions of the Ukraine conflict.

The State Assembly has passed legislation that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from public officers convicted of corruption, as well as a resolution aimed at preventing conflicts of interest with regard to legislators» outside income.

Opponents claimed that it would lead to a poorly co-ordinated economic policy and could potentially lead to conflict in fiscal and monetary policy aims, resulting in particular from an over-emphasis in setting rates to meet inflation targets at the expense of other factors such as the exchange rate.

«This is in addition to range of other air operations and humanitarian intervention schemes aimed at winning the heart and minds of the populace in the conflict areas.

Mr. Cuomo boarded an El Al flight to Jerusalem at 7 p.m. Tuesday with a delegation of New York state lawmakers and other officials, a journey he said was aimed at showing solidarity with Israel in its conflict with Hamas.

The president reiterated Nigeria's commitment to supporting measures aimed at ending the conflicts in Burundi and South Sudan, including the proposed deployment of troops by the African Union to Burundi.

A communique issued and signed by the NUJ chairman, Comrade Adamu Yusuf, said, «The congress noted the rampant killings in Benue State in particularly, the incident at the Catholic Church in Ukpor - Mbalom Community and warned that such were clearly aimed at stoking up religious conflict in the country.

These were aimed at understanding different personality types, creating strategies for dealing with challenging situations such as conflict, and forming a support network to help follow up with a personal action plan.

With the exception of a proposal aimed at strengthening conflict - of - interest regulations, I find these unpersuasive and, in many cases, a little naïve.

Usually, techniques to improve the density of stored charge conflict with those that aim to improve the speed at which ions can move through a material.

It also doesn't help that the film seems conflicted in its aim to be a family - friendly adventure, while also allowing Eddie to spout of constant vulgarities (this is probably the film that has the most liberal use of the word «ass» that I can think of) and also elude to wanting to bed the lovely Kee Nang at every available opportunity alone.

The movie, another based on another first book in yet another series of books aimed at a young audience, is very clear about its five - tier arrangement of a futuristic society where the only apparent survivors of a massive war reside in and just outside a Chicago that appears to have missed out on most of the conflict.

Policymakers should focus on «translating» diverse political interests and adjudicating conflicts between them to arrive at goals regarding what should be taught, the rewards offered for getting the job done, and the sanctions aimed at those schools or individuals consistently failing to improve.

RIAC activities are aimed at strengthening peace, friendship and solidarity between the peoples, preventing international conflicts and promoting crises settlement

These calls for rethinking of the various approaches aimed at alleviating poverty and probably start targeting poverty, thereby looking more at the questions of the opportunities available to those living in fragile states or conflict affected countries.

The Investing in Future conference, which will be held for the first time outside of UHNCR's head - quarters in Geneva, is aimed at highlighting the issue of protecting children in the Middle East amidst the growing conflict in this region.

All are aimed at trying to get the students to really think about past conflicts and the loss that occurred.

Additionally, the most effective ways to deal with bullies and their victims is not through conflict resolution, which aims at creating a level playing field between two individuals engaged in a disagreement.

The Boston Herald reports on an ambitious new million - dollar program aimed at making schools safer... Read more about Program Looks to Fight Bullying by Teaching Kids to Resolve Conflict Themselves

According to the report, restorative justice practices are aimed at building school community and resolving conflict by restoring positive relationships through all of the following:

Most importantly, the researchers conclude: «Policies aimed at resolving conflicts of interest between advisors and clients do not address this problem.»

Conflict is part of the post-launch plan aimed at keeping the experience fresh for players by introducing new ongoing content.

He aims to bring painting into conflict on several fronts at the same time — with its own history, with its clichés, and with the ubiquitous power of the pictorial languages of advertising and pop.

Lawrence Rinder is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was Chief Curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial which was not restricted by a single theme, and aimed to expose multiple, sometimes conflicting currents, as well as extraordinary works that fall outside of any conventional aesthetic definition.

They aim to reflect how the mind holds competing perspectives together at once without conflict but sometimes tension.

Confessions * aims to reorganize the photographs into a critical exhibition that places his photographic endeavor in the context of the turbulent 1960s, at the nexus of gender relations buffeted by the conflicting terms of the sexual revolution and the women's movement.

Confessions * of a male chauvinist pig aims to reorganize the photographs into a critical exhibition that places the project in the context of the turbulent 1960s, at the nexus of gender relations buffeted by the conflicting terms of the sexual revolution and the women's movement.

If you're an earnest person who lives modestly and would like to fund clean energy or tree planting or landfill flares or whatever (even if someone carps that what you're funding isn't «additional») then her piece should not be aimed at you and you should not feel conflicted about whether offsets are good or not.

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

A social enterprise behind a new «ethical» smartphone, the Fairphone, aims to change that by using conflict - free raw materials for the devices, paying the workers who manufacture them a fair wage, and working to set up e-waste recycling programs for taking care of other electronics at the end of their useful life.