Sentences with phrase «as agents of the state»

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

Thus disencumbered from its role as an agent of the state, the Church would be free to teach, encourage, and set an example for the rest of the world.

It will not be enough for the Church simply to surrender its role as an agent of the state in marriage; the bishops of the Church must also provide visible and courageous leadership, including setting their own house in order, regardless of the cost to their popularity and standing with the cultural elites.

They want councils who serve the people, not wasteful or intrusive town halls who serve as agents of the state.

Once the charge has been approved, the Crown counsel lawyer will act as an agent of the state and will represent the government in court.

Because they are responding to requests from law enforcement, private organizations are acting as agents of the state when providing this information.

Not exact matches

While border security agents view biometrics as a useful tool, state lawmakers are starting to respond to their constituents» concern about the potential theft and subsequent fraudulent use of biometric data.

Six badges she carried while rising through the ranks as an agent with the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control are on display in her sunny, corner office.

Clinton continued to face scrutiny over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State, burdened anew after an announcement in late October by FBI Director James Comey that agents would examine newly discovered emails to determine if they were relevant to an investigation he had previously announced as closed without charges.

In a recent post, we reported that Zenefits, a software company and online brokerage firm that claims to have automated much of what brokers do, seems to have alarmed enough insurance agents that last month, the insurance commissioner in Utah banned Zenefits from serving as a broker in the state.

According to the J.D. Power 2016 study of renters insurance companies, State Farm gets 4/5 stars for things such as customer interaction, or how well the company's agents interact with customers.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets of U.S. - funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Agents Registration Act (FARA).

RT was in fact forced to register in the United States in November, and Russia passed a law that month allowing foreign agent status to be conferred on media outlets.103 In December the Ministry of Justice designated Voice of America and eight media outlets associated with RFE / RL as foreign agents.104

The Fund pays State Street Bank and Trust Company for its services as custodian, transfer agent and shareholder servicing agent and pays SSGA Funds Management, Inc., an affiliate of State Street Bank and Trust Company, for investment advisory services.

In Florida, title insurance premiums are set by the state, but the agent's portion of the total as well as agency fees are variable.

«The IRS offers no explanation as to how the IRS can legitimately use most of these millions of records on hundreds of thousands of users; instead, it claims that as long as it has submitted a declaration from an IRS agent that the IRS «is conducting an investigation to determine the identity and correct federal income tax liabilities of United States persons who conducted transactions in a virtual currency during 2013 - 2015» the Court must find that the Summons does not involve an abuse of process.

Rockcoons at first assured the agent, who went by «Nima,» that he was aware of federal anti-money laundering requirements, as well as reporting requirements when cash transactions exceed $ 10,000, the affidavit states.

(1) engage in the «Geographic Area» (as defined below) as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor, proprietor, partner, officer, director, or otherwise of a Competing Business (as defined below); (2) have any ownership interest (except for passive ownership of one percent (1 %) or less in any entity whose securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction of the United States) in a Competing Business; or (3) participate in the financing, operation, management, or control of a Competing Business.

On Friday morning, federal agents, state troopers and local law enforcement officers fanned out to search areas in the vicinity of Dartmouth, Mass., as part of their continuing investigation into the bombings, an F.B.I. spokesman, Jason J. Pack, said.

The bureau has been relying on a small number of agents based in the United States Embassy in Moscow to serve as intermediaries with the authorities there.

Manafort and Gates allegedly «acted as unregistered agents» for the Ukrainians, generating «tens of millions of dollars in income,» which they then «laundered» through «scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts,» per their indictment.

As proposed by New Keynesian economist and Ph. D. Huw Dixon, there are three properties to a state of equilibrium; the behavior of agents is consistent, no agent has an incentive to change its behavior, and that the equilibrium is the outcome of some dynamic process.

(4) Serious ecumenical theological dialogue is impossible with men who are acting in the world as agents of Russian state power.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

When the state imposes prison or fines, it acts as the agent and enforcer of normal social justice, with powers derived from and limited by the social contract of its citizens.

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

This conception of war also has as its villains the states who engage in it, so that states, instead of being potential sources of human good, are recast as the agents of massive evil.

The second type of self - consciousness is termed by Duvall and Wicklund «objective self - consciousness» and is the state in which the causal agent self is taken as the object of consciousness.

The reason has to do with the nonuniversality of «totemism» or transcendental ideology featuring the state as chief agent.

The obstacle before St Thomas that prevented him from seeing the reasonableness of the doctrine of immediate animation was his belief that the sperm, acting as an instrument of the father, was the enduring agent behind the construction of the foetal body to a state ready for a rational soul.

That choice is to recognize what the Bible and such exemplars of the Christian tradition as Augustine have taught us: to see and trust that the church and not any nation - state is preeminently the social agent through which God works God's will in history.

The possessors of power (through the communications technology) to control men today are the political and economic institutions which rely on and in turn maintain the national state as the prime agent of mankind's organization.

Hence, what none of us are permitted to do as private citizens on our own authority the state may do» not because it is itself «lord» of life and death, but because it is the authorized agent of the God who is that Lord.

The people as participating agents in the political process succumb to the syndrome of apathy, hopelessness, and de-capacitation, and the national democratic states are weakened.

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

For example, Fisk cultivated the attentions of George Bethune English, a former divinity student from New England who had gone to the Middle East in 1818 as an agent of John Quincy Adams, then - secretary of state.

(2) Does not require compliance with any production or handling practices other than those provided for in the Act and the regulations in this part as a condition of use of its identifying mark: Provided, That, certifying agents certifying production or handling operations within a State with more restrictive requirements, approved by the Secretary, shall require compliance with such requirements as a condition of use of their identifying mark by such operations.

(1) If the Administrator or State organic program sustains a certification applicant's or certified operation's appeal of a certifying agent's decision, the applicant will be issued organic certification, or a certified operation will continue its certification, as applicable to the operation.

When rebuttal is unsuccessful or correction of the noncompliance is not completed within the prescribed time period, the certifying agent or State organic program's governing State official shall send the certified operation a written notification of proposed suspension or revocation of certification of the entire operation or a portion of the operation, as applicable to the noncompliance.

(b) The Administrator, applicable State organic program's governing State official, or the certifying agent may require preharvest or postharvest testing of any agricultural input used or agricultural product to be sold, labeled, or represented as «100 percent organic,» «organic,» or «made with organic (specified ingredients or food group (s)-RRB-» when there is reason to believe that the agricultural input or product has come into contact with a prohibited substance or has been produced using excluded methods.

When a certified operation demonstrates that each noncompliance has been resolved, the certifying agent or the State organic program's governing State official, as applicable, shall send the certified operation a written notification of noncompliance resolution.

The statute goes further, becoming all - encompassing as it states, «nor shall such manufacturer distributor, importer, primary American source of supply, brand owner or brand registrant or any broker, sales agent or sales person thereof, (a / k / a industry members) assist any vendor by any gifts or loans of money or property of any description or by the giving of any rebates of any kind whatsoever.»

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The research paper stated as part of its findings: «The promising outcomes of this study strongly imply the possible use of VCO, not only as neuroprotective agents for those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, but also as brain food.»

Two players known to be available last week were Denver point guard Nick Van Exel, who has demanded a trade, and Golden State center Marc Jackson, whom the Warriors retained as a free agent in the off - season with the idea of trading him.

Of those five, no one more typifies Pittsburgh's genius for diamonds in the rough than Harrison, who arrived as an undrafted free agent out of Kent State in 2002 and was cut three times before finally learning Dick LeBeau's system and sticking in 200Of those five, no one more typifies Pittsburgh's genius for diamonds in the rough than Harrison, who arrived as an undrafted free agent out of Kent State in 2002 and was cut three times before finally learning Dick LeBeau's system and sticking in 200of Kent State in 2002 and was cut three times before finally learning Dick LeBeau's system and sticking in 2004.

Their bucolic distillery, as described by a state treasury agent named W. George McMullen in his self - published memoir, Twenty - Eight Years a T - Man, maintained a production capacity of 400 gallons of corn liquor.

(JUDAS ALEXI$ $ ANCHEZ), I don't care what Ya'll think, maybe he has stated he will be leaving Arsenal or not or maybe he's still on holidays that is not an excuse for him not to sign a new deal, the FACT he is and his agent are trying to manipulate the club, he has never come out to quench the rumors in anyways and we all know even Bellerin assured us all he's contracted to Arsenal and going no where this season after series of rumors from the press liking him to Barcelona, $ anchez should come out and tell us if he's leaving once and for all and he should stop playing games, it's high time Arsenal make a drastic decision as regards $ anchez issue, it's either he leaves or not, we can have this kind of atmosphere in the dressing room before the season starts, i believe all contract issue should be sorted out before we kick start the season to give us a good shot..