Sentences with phrase «as policy amendments»

Additionally, as policy amendments on REDD + move toward crediting forests as tradable carbon offsets, forestry management entities stand to benefit from new economic incentives.

Not exact matches

Even if following through on this promise is more difficult than Trump admits because of the First Amendment (as I explained in a recent post), the fact that he even talks about such policies and is cheered by his adoring fans for doing so is disturbing.

As the American Conservative's Matt Purple wrote, «Conservatives objected that leveraging kids in policy arguments was a lousy tactic — until they found a kid of their own: Kyle Kashuv, just as bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquAs the American Conservative's Matt Purple wrote, «Conservatives objected that leveraging kids in policy arguments was a lousy tactic — until they found a kid of their own: Kyle Kashuv, just as bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquas bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquas his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.»

NAFTA is just as insufficient for the American innovation economy as it is for the Canadian, which is why U.S. policy - makers are busy making major amendments to federal copyright law to ensure that the profits generated by its creative content keep flowing.

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Embedded in an omnibus transparency and economic modernisation bill (known colloquially as «Sapin 2»), this amendment institutes two separate binding votes on remuneration; a forward looking vote on policy, and a backward looking vote on variable and exceptional pay amounts.

As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»

At the dawn of the 20th century, Catholics finally learned — as evangelical Christians had a century earlier — that the First Amendment gave the churches wide latitude to influence public policy.

«I believe that our action plan, combined with the broader reforms that are already in train to further strengthen competition policy, such as the amendments to the misuse of market power provision and the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct, will ensure that the grocery market remains competitive,» the Assistant Treasurer said.

The Consent Policy for pregnant women directly cited the 8th amendment and deemed the High Court and Protective Services as appropriate action for pregnant women whom refuse medical recommendations.

As commentators note: «one person's technical amendment is another person's policy shift».

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

The measure was put forward by former MP Evan Harris as an amendment to the party's equalities policy paper.

The chapter amendment to the bill removed the prohibition as noted by Hinman Straub's generally excellent policy blog.

But the amendment's introduction this month comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated he wants greater influence over how the state carries out education policy.

Will stop David Cameron being ambushed by Conservative backbenchers on EU policy, as he was by John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

«In supporting this amendment, this side of the House is offering no endorsement of the health policies of the coalition agreement,» Mr Burnham warned, as he encouraged Labour MPs to back the Lib Dem rebels» plan.

«That the department, at least as currently constituted, intends to follow and adhere to that policy should amendments to the agreements between the state and the tribes be submitted for approval does help to alleviate concerns about risk to the revenue sharing agreements,» Falkowski said.

As written, the amendment would allow a judge to reduce or revoke the public pension of any elected official, state official appointed by the governor, judge or certain employees involved in policy making who is convicted of a felony related to their duties.

The Obama administration policy was intended to obey this amendment, as it did not allow for federal funding in the generation of hESCs, but only for their downstream use.

It is the policy of San Antonio ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or disability in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and SAISD's board policies DIA, FFH, and FFI.

The outcome of that process and of the House's parallel bill which left committee already and which failed to adopt a Democratic sponsored amendment to require states to adopt «college and career ready standards» and to use standardized test results in accountability systems, will play a significant role in the current policy environment that is best summarized as «test and punish».

Also posted are archived rules, regulations, guidance, and policies on the DBE program as well as various amendments and reports.

Essentially, I needed to accept the group offset amendment which meant, in effect, «We will increase your individual LTD policy benefits, but as long as you are part of your group LTD plan, those benefits will pay first and reduce additional benefits from your individual plan — until you are no longer part of the group.»

The language was then added as a floor amendment to the House omnibus agriculture policy bill.

The bill was not heard in committee but it was offered as a floor amendment to the House agriculture policy bill (HF1717) but failed on an 80 - 53 vote.

Description: Omnibus agriculture policy and finance bill featuring a hemp amendment providing framework for the state's Department of Agriculture to develop a pilot program allowing participation from the state's higher - education academic institutions as well as public and private growers.

Less Government is an «organization dedicated to reducing the power of government and protecting the First Amendment from governmental assault,» which was founded and run by Seton Motley, who is also listed as a policy adviser to the climate science - denying Heartland Institute.

As the bills passed through parliament we worked closely with policy makers and civil society to call for changes and offer recommendations on further amendments for the laws.

As was noted in Tuckey's letter, I did not discuss the specifics of the government's ETS policy, canvass alternatives such as a carbon tax, or speculate on the amendments being negotiated between the government and the then leadership of the oppositioAs was noted in Tuckey's letter, I did not discuss the specifics of the government's ETS policy, canvass alternatives such as a carbon tax, or speculate on the amendments being negotiated between the government and the then leadership of the oppositioas a carbon tax, or speculate on the amendments being negotiated between the government and the then leadership of the opposition.

«biofuel blending» as policy, measure or instrument [is] «shown to be environmentally effective... in at least a number of national cases» — a successful Brazilian tabled amendment to the Summary for Policymakers text.

In subsequent Treaty amendments the old article 113 EC has been amended as to include «commercial aspects of intellectual property» as part of the Common Commercial Policy.

In addition, there is no specific grandfathering of activities currently carried on under the provisions which are being replaced, and we believe that these provisions should be interpreted as broad enough to encompass those activities — as a policy matter, we believe these proposed amendments are intended to expand and not restrict activities.

In June 2010, previous amendments to the OHSA, known colloquially as «Bill 168», took effect, and essentially required employers to implement new workplace policies dealing with violence and harassment in the workplace.

As a result of these amendments, the CSA modified Companion Policy 45 - 106CP to provide additional guidance on the steps that issuers and sellers relying on certain prospectus exemptions (including the accredited investor exemption) should take.

A - as long as you have the ability to consider non-sixth amendment protected reasons (such as policy considerations, deterence, future dangerousness etc.), then the maximum sentence for Apprendi purposes is the statutory maximum, and the judge can use any fact or hypotheses he wants to raise the sentence anywhere to the statutory maximum.

In addition to his case work, Mr. Safwat worked on policy matters such as new criminal discovery initiatives within the Criminal Division and on proposed amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines relating to corporate accounting fraud and insider trading.

Note that as of June 15, 2010, employers in Ontario have an obligation to formulate policies addressing workplace harassment and violence, due to the recent amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Employers will have to take a proactive approach to preventing chronic mental stress by identifying and addressing potential causes, which will be aided by the harassment policies workplaces have had to implement as a result of the Bill 132 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act that came into force last fall.

There are a number of other amendments — such as the limitation of the infamous «public policy» ground for challenging awards — that are on the whole positive.

Continuation of the study is listed as a tentative policy priority for the amendment year ending May 1, 2018.

Conspicuously absent from the Policy Framework (as well as from the packages of legislative amendments) is any express reference to «alternative business structure» or the use of any comparable expression.

[15] In explaining to the Council the need for the legislative amendment changing the make - up of the Council, the NSBS Executive Director, Darrel Pink, stated that such a change not only is called for by the (admittedly still draft) policy document, but also is «widely accepted as elements of good governance.»

However, the Committee argues that as far as any further use of the powers is concerned, a distinction must be drawn between «technical amendments» (involving the maintenance and updating of the body of domesticated EU law) and «larger amendments involving policy choices» (i.e. wider ranging reform).

In light of the government's new action plan and upcoming legislative amendments, employers should proactively review their current workplace health and safety violence and harassment policies and procedures (including complaint, response and investigation processes), as well as training requirements and processes, to ensure a safe workplace free of sexual harassment for all their employees.

The hundreds of dollars non-members are forced to pay to the union as a condition of employment in California schools is a clear violation of educators First Amendment rights, since the unions used those coerced payments to advance their policy agenda when bargaining with the government.

The ombudsperson's submission to the assembly is important because as its French name indicates, the protecteur du citoyen's mandate is to protect the rights of citizens or groups of citizens, which includes proposing amendments to existing or draft acts, regulations, directives, and administrative policies in order to improve them for the public good.

The panel discussed and evaluated current practical considerations in asserting and defending cybersquatting claims, trademark considerations in light of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy («UDRP») decisions, litigation concerns under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act («ACPA») 1999 amendment to the Lanham Act, and related enforcement and defense approaches, as well as counseling strategies for assisting clients that are operating and staking claims online., Moderator, Trademarks, Domain Names & Cybersquatting, NY State Bar Association, IP Section Trademark Committee, 2016