Sentences with phrase «as legislators attempt»

Not exact matches

Without saying as much directly, the ESRB is adding the label in an attempt to assuage the concerns of legislators.

Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's leader threatened to block the move and the opposition Labour Party's leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Second, as Richard «Dick» Lipton explains in the American Bar Association Tax Lawyer article «Hyperlexis» (which I can't link here) legislators in an attempt to curtail bureaucratic discretion draft more and more complex and arcane laws to clarify Congressional intent.

Although the administration has lauded the deal as a potential source of $ 140 million in additional tax revenue over the course of 40 years, lawmakers have approached the plan with caution, criticizing Astorino's attempt to fast - track its approval by tying a Board of Legislators» decision to a required Dec. 27 budget deadline, and for not sending out a formal request for proposals.

ALBANY — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo assails gender imbalance on corporate boards, one state legislator is attempting to address a similar problem much closer to home.

Ken Lovett says legislators will use Cuomo's comments against him as they attempt to quash commission subpoenas.

The Republican Caucus, led by Minority Leader John J. Mills, has grown continually frustrated by Legislators and opportunists who have attempted to ignore the will of the people and as a result hindered efforts to present a fair map in a timely manner that would allow interested candidates to become involved in the process.

Normally anonymous legislators — and one chamber aide who returned time and again with vegetable and cheese platters — were besieged by a crush of cameras as they exited elevators and attempted to scurry into a conference area that, for the day, was closed to reporters.

Legislator Patrick Burke, D - Buffalo, who is running for State Assembly, said he was offended by Loughran's attempt to paint legislators as complicit in a corrupt system when all sides agree reform is needed.

His priorities, if elected as legislator, will include appointing members to the IDA board who will work for the best interests of the residents of Gardiner and Shawangunk; and opposition to attempts to site a landfill in Ulster County.

The Feb. 11 resolution went on to say that the legislators felt that part of the SAFE Act was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.»

The legislators are expected to attempt an override vote on Paterson's education spending veto, perhaps as early as Tuesday.

Even as NEA and AFT affiliates rallied rank - and - file members to the state capital in order to remind legislators that they will attempt to make them pay for opposing the union's will, Parent Power groups such as Black Alliance for Educational Options rallied members to call state senators and made clear that families would no longer sit on the sidelines.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

Republican state legislators in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia are attempting to change state election rules so as to apportion electoral college votes to counties rather than the entire state.

Killing off both minimum and partial harmonisation as hinted at in Tobacco Advertising I would have left the EU legislator with nothing but full harmonisation; allowing both would have run the risk of rendering harmonisation under Article 114 TFEU into no more than harmonisation attempts, which would soon be undermined by ever more divergent national rules.

Attempts to legislate for particular technologies tend to fail, too, because legislators do not act as fast as technology evolves.

The NAIC from time to time comes up with these resolutions or model laws as an attempt to aid state level legislators in their efforts to create legislation for introduction in their home states.