Sentences with phrase «attempts by legislators»

Breed - specific legislation (BSL) is an attempt by legislators to reduce dog bites by targeting specific types of dogs.

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«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.»

With one of the most sophisticated and well - heeled lobbies in the country ($ 8 to $ 9 million annual budget), the NRA fiercely stymies all efforts by legislators to pass gun laws, even though the results of local attempts have shown beyond reasonable doubt that such laws can be effective.

One method by which they attempted to rally support for politicians who supported their particular causes was by endorsing a «rating» system which collated scores for each individual legislator according to how that legislator voted on several issues considered by the broadcasters to be «Christian» issues of the election.

In response to a lack of concern by the federal government, cities, states, and legislators have warned and attempted to ban BPA from kids» products.

Unfortunately, the Grand Jury accepted the politically charged testimony of this legislator and claimed «Financial Disclosure forms were used by a county official in a failed attempt to end the legislature's investigation into the ethics commission.»

But every time congestion pricing has come up — and not just recently — it's been shot down by legislators in Albany, from John Lindsay's attempt in the 1970s to Michael Bloomberg's close - but - no - cigar efforts during his administration, which ultimately died (thanks to Sheldon Silver) in 2008.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

«By threatening to delay the budget he is attempting to bully legislators by withholding their paychecks; if he succeeds our school children will be the ones who pay the price.&raquBy threatening to delay the budget he is attempting to bully legislators by withholding their paychecks; if he succeeds our school children will be the ones who pay the price.&raquby withholding their paychecks; if he succeeds our school children will be the ones who pay the price.»

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.

The criticism, he said, was unfair because he did not attempt to change the system of part - time legislators, citing staunch resistance by Republicans who control the State Senate.

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.

Attempts to reduce the Legislators» salaries last year were blocked by members of the Majority Caucus and the County charter does not allow salary reduction legislation to be voted on during an election year.

While that opinion was echoed by several legislators, an attempt to refer the measure back to committee so the issues could be separated was defeated, 11 - 9.

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.

When asked by a journalist if she thought the dual - review plan was a «Solomonic» attempt to, in a sense, «split the baby,» Jennifer Schwartz Berky, Kingston's incoming county legislator, said the ancient king's wisdom exceeded New York State's.

Like several other state legislators, Rodriguez is making a run this year for City Council, attempting to leave behind the many commutes to Albany and to boost his base salary by nearly 100 %, from the $ 79,500 of a state legislator to the $ 148,000 of a City Council member.

Córdova launched that priority - setting exercise knowing NSF has spent the last 4 years fighting off attempts by another powerful legislator — Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), the chairman of the House science committee — to reshuffle the agency's portfolio.

Ed schools presently benefit from a lack of public accountability, low political visibility, public policy inertia, and iron triangle protectionism provided by self - interested coalitions of executive branch credentialing managers, teacher union officials attempting to restrain labor market entry, and a few aligned legislators.

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.

However, attempts by certain legislators to try and renegotiate last year's law and strip these efforts to improve our education system are unacceptable.»

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

Despite attempts by opponents to repeal the REPS law in recent years, a strong bipartisan group of legislators have voted numerous times to maintain the REPS, which has been a driving force behind NC's $ 7 billion clean energy industry and its 26,000 + jobs.

This followed many failed attempts by ALEC legislators to freeze or repeal RPS laws in North Carolina, Kansas, and many other states, ALEC legislators in Ohio froze its RPS law, effectively gutting the clean energy and energy efficiency incentives.

In any event, during this period of uncertainty, we may see an increase in WSIA premiums, and we may see legislators attempt to amend the WSIA to address the constitutional issues raised by WSIAT.

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.

In states all over the country, traditional practitioners are attempting to 1) encourage legislators or regulators to enact minimum - service requirements for brokers, 2) require the use of exclusive right - to - sell listing agreements in order for listings to be included in the IDX data feed, 3) selectively limit access to listing information through the use of NAR's current VOW policy, 4) add a limited - service data field in the MLS to allow salespeople to eliminate limited - service brokers» listings from their search, and 5) require a visual inspection or in - person measurement of properties by salespeople.