Sentences with phrase «as national legislators»

One may also wonder whether the AG's opinion provides as much clarity as national legislators hope to get from the CJEU.

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Escobar went along with Colombia's democratic system and won a seat as a backup for a legislator in the National Assembly.

There is also a tip sheet with ideas to help you use social media to spread the word about National School Lunch Week, as well as associated events like «Take Your Parent to Lunch Day» and «Lunch with Your Legislators.»

Responding to the Abuakwa South legislator, the Organised Youth of Krobo said bringing development to an area should be national in character and not based on ethnicity, religion, economical status, race, or religion as propounded by the framers of the 1992 constitution.

Governor Samuel Ortom had thanked President Buhari for visiting and listening patiently to the representatives of socio - cultural groups, farmers, herdsmen, national and state legislators, former leaders and elder statesmen, among others, described him as «a father known for his integrity and fight for justice.»

He admonished the people against voting «skirt and blouse,» thus voting for Parliamentary candidates not from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as that could create numerical challenges for the party's legislators.

Sanders, a veteran US legislator who energized a nationwide movement of media - savvy young voters in his presidential race, and Teachout, whose political experience includes serving as the internet organizing guru for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — arguably the dawn of the current trend for social media to play a significant grassroots role in national political campaigns — operate largely from the same playbook.

Controversies began trailing the whereabouts of the budget since Tuesday January 12, upon the resumption of the legislators as it was said to be missing at the National Assembly.

That may be causing some (though not all) of the lingering animosity between the governor and legislators, who perhaps aren't interested in giving him yet another «on time budget» headline to crow about as he seeks to raise his national profile and looks toward a potential presidential run in 2020.

«As you, your Holiness, have said, faith is not a problem for legislators to solve, but rather a vital part of our national conversation.

Ologbodiyan said, «Rather than offering explanations, the Buhari Presidency, in the All Progressives Congress usual arrogance and disdain, opted to insult Nigerians, including federal legislators as well as the institution of the National Assembly.

And as both federal and state legislators grapple with increased restrictions on abortion, a new national poll indicates Americans have mixed reactions to some of the moves being made right now in state houses and the nation's capital.

The Common Core Implementation Panel, which he first proposed during his State of the State address in January, includes both national experts as well as state legislators, parents, educators, and business and community leaders.

Plans to overhaul the city's sex education curriculum, offer more birth control to women and join a national group of city legislators to promote a unified urban agenda are also likely to figure prominently in her last year as Speaker.

It was indeed «moments of madness» on Tuesday at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly as legislators on the platform of the ruling All Progressives...

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislators want President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to fire the deputy agric minister «as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions».

The Common Core Implementation Panel, which he first proposed during his State of the State address last month, includes both national experts as well as state legislators, parents, educators, and business and community leaders.

Officials at the authority have not explicitly explained how they selected the subsidized projects — Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the Kingsbridge National Ice Center in the Bronx as well as Empire Outlets and Lighthouse Point on Staten Island — except to say that state - created Regional Economic Development Councils and local legislators, in theory, have some influence.

The prospective candidates include former Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, a former physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; businessman Perry Gershon of East Hampton, who has worked in commercial real estate finance; Westhampton native Brendon Henry of Center Moriches, a bartender who also works in ordering and pricing for a plumbing contractor; David Pechefsky, a former New York City Council staffer from Port Jefferson; and Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

That cut, which the Association of American Universities had assailed as «inconceivable,» triggered a campaign by university lobbyists to convince legislators of the value of basic research to national security.

In «Enough Hot Air Already» [Perspectives], the editors say that because our legislators avoid carbon taxes as political suicide, we should adopt a national cap - and - trade market as an alternative.

Betty Castor: I came to the presidency of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards with a background as a teacher, a legislator, the Florida commissioner of education, and the chief executive officer of the largest metropolitan state university in Florida.

Faced with the challenges of improving learning in every classroom, state governors and legislators, local school boards, superintendents, and principals are backing National Board Certification as an effective means to upgrade teaching.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

Over 1,200 students, parents, educators, and legislators came out to support school choice and Idaho's myriad of K - 12 learning options as part of National School Choice Week.

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.

And their strategy garnered ConnCAN national fame, for the blatant misuse of data, as a way to mislead legislators, the media and the public.

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«Our policy agenda focuses on state houses,» said Tim Melton, a former Democratic state legislator in Michigan who recently began working as StudentsFirst's national legislative director.

February 6, 2017 — Stan Jones, who transformed education in Indiana and throughout the nation as a long - time state legislator, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education, and founder and president of the national nonprofit Complete College America...

Tim Melton, a former Michigan Democratic legislator who recently began working as StudentsFirst's national legislative director, is less pessimistic.

CEELO staff Tom Schultz presented as part of a virtual meeting to the National Conference of State Legislators Early Learning Fellows.

Thursday's press conference was coordinated with a national effort to draw attention to the needs at traditional public schools, and pressure legislators to increase funding for providing those services — an approach known as the community schools model.

Weeks before the legislative session the Humane Society of the United States was advised that a knee jerk reaction from certain legislators could negatively impact the bill and were asked to remain out of the issue as other national groups were doing.

It went on to have 20 - some screenings around the U.S. — including two official film festival selections (2013 St. Louis International Film Festival, 2014 Kansas City Film Fest), as well as supported by national animal welfare organization, Best Friends Animal Society, who sent copies of that version to legislators faced with this issue.

The study will help to inform legislators, regulators, and consumers about the role the pet industry plays in state and local economies, as well as at the national level.

They urge legislators to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to read, «Military dogs shall (not may as it is currently worded) be returned to the United States after their service ends.»

Hence, without a whisper of a doubt, several national legislators eagerly await the outcome of these joined cases, in the hope to get more guidance as to how to apply Digital Rights Ireland concretely to their national legislation.

And as long as the EU legislator does not interfere either, we will be able to observe similar contradictions between «national EU law» and «European EU law» in the future.

The proportionality test as applied in Viking and Laval is more or less the only thing left for the CJEU in the absence of a functioning competence (like in Schmidberger and Omega) and considering the unwillingness of the national legislators to tackle the issue (Monti II).

The CJEU has therefore always taken a restrictive stance on the locus standi of non-privileged applicants, effectively preferring the primacy of the EU legislator over the Court, as well as maintaining the important role of national courts through the preliminary reference procedure.

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.

It appears that the national legislator is using the national institution of referendum here as strictly as possible to oppose the EU's proposals.

The efforts by legislators in Arizona and Georgia appears to be part of a larger national trend to alter the number of justices on courts of last resort as detailed here.

Moreover, the Directive's scope is limited to natural persons: the EU legislator does not seem to be willing to consider to grant protection to legal persons, regardless of the fact that they can be held criminally liable in most MS.. In sum, the real added value of the Directive will depend on its implementation in national law and the willingness of the national courts, as well as of the Court of Justice, to ensure that the Directive contributes to the enhancing of defence rights in the EU.

Besides, national legislators must respect EU law even when they act in exercise of an exclusive competence of the State, so as not to adopt measures capable of compromising the protection of legal positions ruled on at the EU level.

Can something be said about steps the EU legislator and / or EU or national policy makers can take to ensure swift implementation of new EU instruments such as the Brussels I recast.

According to information provided by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America as of July 2015, 21 states have adopted laws on credit or regulations based largely on the National Conference of Insurance Legislators» (NCOIL) model law (discussed above).

Newly assertive leadership of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators appears eager to confront what it views as an ongoing usurpation of authority from state legislatures.