Sentences with phrase «around state bans»

Using tax credits to fund the scholarships, instead of direct payments from public treasuries, enabled lawmakers to work around state bans on the use of public funds to support religious institutions.

Not exact matches

The Forum (which has its own Facebook page even though Facebook is banned in China) invites luminaries from around the world — economists, business leaders, former heads of state, and even the occasional journalist — to share their thoughts about the global economy and China's position in it.

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

Its members had sat impassively at hearings around the state as citizens pleaded with the Constitution Revision Commission for the chance to ban assault weapons.

Last week, the coffee chain Starbucks announced a plan to hire 10,000 refugees at its stores around the globe in response to a recent executive order, temporarily banning many from coming to the United States.

A one - year bowl ban isn't a big deal at all, and USC, Ohio State and others have provided helpful road maps on how to recruit around scholarship reductions.

When our new Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, chose as his very first act in office a bogus «lifting» of a non-existent ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools, parents and health advocates around the state were understandably alarmed.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law banning most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, or at around six weeks of pregnancy, marking the strictest abortion regulation in the nation — but setting the state up for a lengthy court fight.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Exxon is now the world's biggest fracker, a practice New York State banned after a decade of organizing around health and climate impacts.

Around the time Nixon was joining hundreds of demonstrators at a rally outside the state Capitol, Cuomo announced he was introducing legislation that would ban all single - use, plastic carryout bags in New York state.

We have seen the success of Uber around the world, and for far too long New York State has unnecessarily banned ridesharing.

District attorneys around the state — with some notable exceptions, including Nassau County's Kathleen Rice — are looking to tweak the Albany measure by adding the Bratton exception, arguing that too broad a ban protects criminal enterprises.

Trump has made several campaign promises around immigration, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, imposing financial penalties on sanctuary cities that shelter undocumented immigrants, and banning Muslims from entering the United States.

Many county sheriffs oppose it, particularly its expanded definition of banned assault weapons, and have spoken out around the state.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined with 15 other attorney generals from around the country in a vow to fight the travel ban.

Fracking would be banned in and around the city's watershed as well as within 500 feet of state aquifers and on state land, including parks, forests and wildlife areas — a significant reversal from its 2009 position.

Bald eagles are still rebounding in the United States following the banning around 1970 of DDT, an insecticide that mimics hormones and caused a fatal weakening of eggshells.

Scientists in the United States have been trying to find ways around the ban on using federal funds to create stem cells from human embryos.

New, unpublished research has found that polychlorinated biphenyls — banned in the United States 35 years ago — are leaching out of clothing and printed materials from around the world

To enforce the ban, the city / state of Libria (i.e., Manhattan as a bad matte) has trained a group of «Grammaticon Clerics» (who have perfected the art of «gunkata») to wander around killing anybody reading Yeats, and these cops are flanked by a retinue of those jack - booted villains from Michael Jackson's long - form «Smooth Criminal» video.

Not messing around with the winning formula in any way, Gerald Butler «s Mike Banning returns to try and save President Ben Asher, played again by Aaron Eckhart, after a routine State visit to London ends up becoming a setup to kill all the world leaders and consequentially a deadly bloodbath.

Below is a list of 75 different dog breeds that are banned or restricted in different places around the United States.

Scores of counties around the country are continuing to ban the sale of commercially raised puppies in pet stores, including Albuquerque, N.M.; Austin, Texas; Chicago; El Paso, Texas; Toledo, Ohio; San Diego; Los Angeles; and the state of Florida.

As of today, bans of pet store sales of dogs and cats that come from commercial breeders have been enacted or are pending in 77 municipalities and states around the country.

Game developers around the world are protesting U.S. President Donald Trump's order banning refugees and barring citizens from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days.

New York State's ban on fracking is a hard - fought victory that will no doubt have reverberations around the world, so what's next in the fracking fight?

Many thanks to Montana State Contact Mike Fellows for submitting the following letter to the Ravalli Republic: Juries can check the government The talk of gun bans continues to be heard around this nation.

Effectiveness of Car Insurance Texting Bans Bans on texting while driving have come into force in one form or another in scores of states around the country, with special read more...

Clowning around aside, driving and texting is banned in 41 states.

Its members had sat impassively at hearings around the state as citizens pleaded with the Constitution Revision Commission for the chance to ban assault weapons.

Around 100 students took a bus to Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday morning to ask state legislators to reinstate a ban on assault weapons.

But he added the political reality that students will face as they prod federal and state lawmakers around the country: «My colleagues do not support banning every semiautomatic rifle sold in America.»

Kapron further stated that «The current regulation that's being talked about is banning bitcoin exchanges, which would cut out a lot of the trade flows we're seeing in China right now and the exchanges around bitcoin.»

Around the same time John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard oil which controlled most oil of the production on the planet at the time, began making millions of dollars in donations across the United States to chapters of Womens Temperance League, a group who's mission was to ban the private consumption and production of alcohol in the US.