Sentences with phrase «argued against action»

Mr. Barbour mainly works to loosen enforcement of environmental regulations affecting utilities, though other Washington lobbyists said that he had also argued against action on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

George Osborne heading to Europe this week to argue against action on bonuses.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

Not exact matches

Moscow has tried to legitimize this course of action by arguing that the Taliban is helping in the fight against ISIS.

During the meeting with executives Thursday, Cohn argued against taking action, according to a person in the room.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

In arguing against class action status, Uber had submitted sworn statements from hundreds of drivers supporting the company.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.

Virtual currency business owner Theo Chino commenced an action against the State, arguing that the DFS does not have the authority to enforce the BitLicense.

Bartz argued that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act would now pre-empt state law under the rule and that the rule improperly created a private right of action that could set up class - action lawsuits against insurance companies and agents.

Qualcomm has countered with a patent suit and argued that Cupertino, California - based Apple encouraged regulators from South Korea to the U.S. to take action against it based on false testimony.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

$ 40,000 extra for six weeks worth of testifying and strategy is good work if you can get it, but perhaps SQN could have found someone who didn't previously publicly argue against trade action in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty petition filed in 2014 by SolarWorld.

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

Wishful thinking of this sort is difficult to argue against, but it may be relevant to note briefly that the status of «action at a distance» is by no means so clear cut in contemporary philosophy of science as they seem to suppose.

Against the intellectualism of these ways of knowing God, Christian thinkers argued that the knowledge of God rested on «divine action» and on «God's appearance» among human beings in the person of Christ.

What we have in these chapters, in turn, is an almost gentle presentation of natural theology, a Christian theological proposal that is argued vigorously against alternative views, and a straightforward apologetic for a certain physics - based conception of God's action in the world.

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

Perhaps it is more and more on here seeing no reason to argue against this sentiment and are finding it harder to defend some of his actions / in - action?

Nevertheless, if the FA do opt to take action and discipline Alonso, he'll surely have no case to argue against it as the replay speaks for itself.

She brought the legal action against the pool, arguing staff had contravened her legal right to breastfeed in public areas without discrimination.

He argued that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision tossing out the corruption case against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell showed that his actions also did not involve illegalities.

The New York State United Teachers argues in the legal action that the confidentiality requirement — which the labor group says is essentially a «gag order» against teachers is unconstitutional and violates free speech rights.

The government's motion, which also seeks to prevent mention of Town of Oyster Bay actions related to the corruption allegations against Venditto, argues that these topics are «inadmissible hearsay, irrelevant... and would create a substantial risk of jury confusion.»

The state prosecutors argued that ending the Obama - era executive action to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation discriminates against people of Mexican origin, who make up 78 percent of DACA grantees, according to the attorney general.

In a separate memorandum of law, Bohrer argued for the full dismissal of the federal superseding indictment against Percoco, arguing in part that he could not have taken official action for those paying him.

Instead, Silver's team is expected to argue that however unethical or duplicitous Silver's actions may appear, they were never against the law.

The Gill Action Fund, on the other hand, wants a win and is arguing against a vote if all it will be is a symbolic victory.

The group further argued that the Commission would also meet the longstanding and legitimate demands of the Nigerian people for vigorous and meaningful action against corrupt leaders, past or present.

Emerging economies have often argued that they should be compensated before they take action against climate change.

Arthritis: Allergy, Nutrition & The Environment by Dr. John Mansfield and Dr. Stephen Davies argues against suppressing arthritic symptoms with drugs, and outlines exactly what action sufferers of arthritis can take in terms of nutrition and identifying allergens to tackle the cause of the illness.

A parallel can be drawn between the tactics of the skinheads in the film and those of the country of England itself in the Falklands War, bullying those who can't properly defend themselves (though it can be argued that England was provoked to action) under the pretense of entitlement, but the effect of the violent action against Argentina did drum up feelings of nationalism and support among the British people.

At the time, students commonly used Foucault's writings to argue against federal action to alleviate the harms of the status quo.

In such a forum, balancing can play a key role and they argue that the proper method for assessing the new counter-terrorism laws, from a human rights perspective, is to adopt a «balancing approach» according to which the importance of the relevant human right is weighed against the importance of the societal or community interest in deciding whether to take legislative action (or, from the position of a judge, in deciding whether a certain law is valid).

In this case, the plaintiff's lead attorney argued that Smith should be personally liable because his actions were negligent and against the best interests of the corporation.

Some view this «training tool» as an acceptable way to curb an unwanted action by your dog; others will argue it's a horrible act of violence against our canine companions, and was designed only for those who don't want to spend the time with alternate, less invasive means of training.

HAHF argues that «the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act negatively implicate TVNR and creates the possibilitity [sic] of legal action against veterinarians engaging in TVNR,» and that «the primary veterinarian medical malpractice carrier will not provide insurance coverage for illegal activies [sic].»

This, of course, is the same Peter Marra who, along with nine of his colleagues, has argued that «trap - neuter - return is essentially cat hoarding without walls,» and called for «legal action against colonies and colony managers.»

But the Big 3's entreaties for action from the Obama administration have been opposed by smaller U.S. carriers, which say that the legacy carriers have themselves been beneficiaries of government largesse and argue that measures against the Gulf carriers would reduce competition and thereby harm consumers.

Sashka's main goal seems to be convincing us about the uncertainty in climate science, then to use this uncertainty to argue against regulatory action.

To argue, or even suggest, that [human action, including alterations in landscapes and emissions of greenhouse gases] «can»» or even doesn't, or even «may not» affect climate is in essence to argue against the very basic of geophysics and chemistry itself.

For instance, opponents of US government action on climate change have for over 30 years predominantly argued against proposed policies on two grounds.

«Our results argue strongly against using abnormally large losses from individual Atlantic hurricanes or seasons as either evidence of anthropogenic climate change or to justify actions on greenhouse gas emissions.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

And we will argue — against those who pooh - pooh his influence — that Joe Romm is, in fact, far more influential today than Joe McCarthy was in the 1950s, a fact that, unfortunately, has proven poisonous to creating the consensus needed for serious action on climate.

if you want to argue against the need for action on climate change, fine.

-LSB-...] the way to pitch the analysis is to argue that precautionary action must be taken now to protect reserves etc against the inevitable

thefordprefect You can not argue against the obvious — that an audit involves the collection and examination of facts and data and their reporting to the relevant people for action.

Frequently, climate contrarians argue against taking action to mitigate that risk by claiming the uncertainties are too large.

Arguing against the probabilistic causation that exists at the quantum level — and thus evidently for causal necessity, but then also arguing for volition — in which free choice is the is the ability to choose between two potential courses of action in which either may be equally actualArguing against the probabilistic causation that exists at the quantum level — and thus evidently for causal necessity, but then also arguing for volition — in which free choice is the is the ability to choose between two potential courses of action in which either may be equally actualarguing for volition — in which free choice is the is the ability to choose between two potential courses of action in which either may be equally actualizable.