Sentences with phrase «authority in a given subject»

My guess is that she's making this statement in a rude way because it feels good to be able to tell someone who is seen as an authority in a given subject matter that they did something they think is wrong.

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Unless we are prohibited from doing so by any applicable law, regulation, court order or instruction or guidance of a competent regulatory authority or agency, in terminating your account we may do any of the following at our sole discretion: A. transfer the funds back to the source; or B. convert your account balance to Bitcoins at our then - prevailing rate, subject to applicable fees and as soon as practicable give you 48 hours» notice that we intend to deactivate your account, requesting that you provide us with an alternative bitcoin wallet address to which we can transfer your bitcoin within that period (the «Redemption Period»);

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

Senate Republicans granted at least one of the de Blasio administration's wishes: it joined with Assembly Democrats in rejecting a Cuomo proposal to subject bonds for housing to approval by the state's Public Authorities Control Board, a maneuver that would have given Albany veto power over a significant slice of the city's housing program.

The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.

«Subject to the details regarding provision of employment as enunciated elsewhere in the Policy the project authorities shall give preference in the matter of employment, both direct and indirect as well as through contractors employed by them, for execution, operation and maintenance of the project...».

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The frameworks were designed in association with Cornwall Learning (previously Cornwall Local Education Authority) to replace the system of levels and give schools a new «ladder of progression» for the core subjects.

Subject: Request by two local educational agencies to waive California Education Code Section 51224.5 (b), the requirement that all students graduating in the 2015 — 2016 school year be required to complete a course in Algebra I (or equivalent) to be given a diploma of graduation, for nine special education students based on Education Code Section 56101, the special education waiver authority.

The amount of TIFIA budget authority available in a given year is subject to several factors, as described below.

Like all funds subject to the annual Federal - aid obligation ceiling, the amount of TIFIA budget authority available in a given year may be less than the amount authorized for that fiscal year.

The program is subject to the obligation limitation - to - contract authority ration, which typically results in a «lop off» of funds authorized for a given FY.

Further, we strongly oppose subjecting small, in - home breeders with as few as 5 breeding females to federal regulations, forcing them to give up their privacy and requiring them to replace living and care standards that are appropriate for household pets with ones designed for large commercial settings, especially when oversight from state and local authorities and the AKC is available in many cases at no additional cost to the taxpayer.

Les Redesseurs de Calavi (2011) takes as its subject a group of young men in the city of Abomey - Calavi — whether gangsters or righteous vigilantes is perhaps a matter of perspective — and the gym where they cultivate the physiques that give them their authority.

Subtitle E: Additional Market Assurance -(Sec. 351) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) require energy derivatives to be traded on a CFTC - regulated exchange unless CFTC issues an exemption; (2) require CFTC to fix limits, with respect to energy transactions, on the aggregate number of positions which may be held by any person for each month across all markets subject to the CFTC's jurisdiction; (3) require CFTC to convene a Position Limit Energy Advisory Group to give CFTC recommendations on such position limits; (4) give CFTC exclusive authority to grant exemptions for bona fide hedging transactions and positions from position limits imposed on energy transactions; (5) revise provisions concerning bona fide hedging transactions; and (6) require CFTC to issue a rule defining and classifying index traders and swap dealers for the purposes of data reporting requirements and setting routine detailed reporting requirements for any position of such entities in contracts traded on designated contract markets, over-the-counter markets, derivatives transaction execution facilities, foreign boards of trade, and electronic trading facilities with respect to significant price discovery contracts.

However, few authorities have implemented it, and Birmingham City Council has in effect found itself subject to litigation that will potentially give rise to compensation payments in the # 100s of millions, but which may also amount to a test case with the resulting nationwide compensation running at a far higher multiple.

(6) Where a local authority refuse an application for a licence under section 37 of this Act or revoke or, otherwise than on the application of the holder, vary such a licence they shall state their grounds for doing so in writing to the applicant or, as the case may be, the holder of the licence; and the applicant or holder may appeal to a magistrates» court or, in Scotland, the sheriff, against the refusal, revocation or variation, and against any condition subject to which the licence is granted or any approval is given, not being a condition which the local authority are required to impose.

Sir Anthony Clarke MR (giving the judgment of the court): The facts found by the judge were that the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (following the ousting of the government of Saddam Hussain) had issued an order whereby the multinational force (of which British troops formed a pArt) should be «immune from Iraqi legal process» and that all personnel should be «subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of their sending States».

Section 19 could be operated, consistently with its terms and with Art 12, in a manner which required persons subject to immigration control to give notice of a proposed marriage, enabled an appropriate authority to investigate whether the proposed marriage would be one of convenience and provided for the withholding of permission only in cases where it appeared that the proposed marriage would be one of convenience.

If the Government wants to change the law in areas which currently fall under the authority of EU as, just to give one example, it has said it intends to do on immigration, it should do so via primary legislation which is subject to full Parliamentary scrutiny.

fm.: From Wikipedia: in government, typically a regulation specifically means a piece of the delegated legislation drafted by subject matter experts to enforce a statutory instrument (primary legislation) in business, industry self - regulation occurs through self - regulatory organizations and trade associations which allow industries to set rules with less government involvement The Act that authorizes the Agency would thus be the Legislative creation of Administrative Law (they give authority to enact the regulations as they see fit AND can further clarify through oversight power.)

«[T] he weight of authority suggests that accurate news reporting — even when it is likely to have an adverse impact on the subjects of the report — usually does not give rise to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress»: Yesterday, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault.

ABL members give seminars, take part in workshops on specialist legal subjects (we call it Business Units), and celebrate meetings with local authorities to offer them our assistance in an attempt to promote their commercial advantages and let the world (and our clients) know the specific strengths and investment opportunities in these specific countries.

Unless we are prohibited from doing so by any applicable law, regulation, court order or instruction or guidance of a competent regulatory authority or agency, in terminating your account we may do any of the following at our sole discretion: A. transfer the funds back to the source; or B. convert your account balance to Bitcoins at our then - prevailing rate, subject to applicable fees and as soon as practicable give you 48 hours» notice that we intend to deactivate your account, requesting that you provide us with an alternative bitcoin wallet address to which we can transfer your bitcoin within that period (the «Redemption Period»);

Adopted children and priority school admissions: New Admissions Code of Practice In May 2014, new guidance was issued to school admission authorities asking them to give the highest priority to all children who were previously looked after children but who ceased to be so because they were adopted or became subject to a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (formally known as a residence order).

While much has been made of the potential for joint custody to give parents more of a stake in child rearing, parents who so resent or covet the custodial authority of their counterparts that they subject their children to disappointment and rejection are not good candidates for increased responsibility.