Sentences with phrase «authority on the issue»

Let's go and find the foremost authorities on the issue of safety.

And it sends back to the states and local districts major policy - making authority on issues such as standards and teacher evaluation.

In other words, one parent possesses final decision making authority on issues involving the minor child.

SSO was set up by survivors, for survivors, to speak with authority on issues of torture including those that impact their lives here in the UK.

One teacher said that their «neighbors looked to [teachers] as authorities on the issues involved in the ballot question, and greeted them warmly when approached to discuss» the anti-charter campaign [3]-- a starkly different reaction than most political canvassers receive.

Author of the articles, Nancy Willard, is executive director of the Center and a recognized authority on issues related to the safe and responsible use of the Internet.

There have also been numerous referendums held by local authorities on issues such as temperance and directly elected mayors.

Grieve's exit has cleared the way for the Conservative party to clash more directly with the European court of human rights as he had cautioned over defying the Strasbourg authority on issues like prisoner voting.

Pasnak was the leading authority on that issue until BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders, 2008 SCC 69, in which the Supreme Court of Canada cast some doubt on the dividing line, perhaps unintentionally.

A recent decision of the BC Court of Appeal argued by John Cheevers is a binding authority on the issue of unreasonable delay in serious criminal cases.

In R (Pascoe) v First Secretary of State [2006] EWHC 2356 (Admin), [2006] 4 All ER 1240 Mr Justice Forbes had to choose between two differing lines of Court of Appeal authority on the issue of proportionality in compulsory purchase cases.

The lack of appellate authority on the issue until the Court of Appeal's decision in Mega International Commercial Bank (Canada) v. Yung, caused counsel and litigants to proceed with caution on the basis that the limitation period was absolute and could not be extended by the discoverability principle.

He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

On the occasion of the 6th World Water Forum, held in Marseille from 12 to 17 March 2012, 350 local and regional elected officials from across the 5 continents have met to increase international the mobilization of local and regional authorities on the issues of water and sanitation and to reinforce the commitments agreed upon in the Istanbul Water Consensus.

In Florida alone, lawmakers have already filed more than 20 bills seeking to preempt local authority on issues including oil and gas regulations, construction standards for abortion clinics and whether a town can declare itself a sanctuary city.

WHO's job will be made harder by the growing threat and worsening impacts of climate change For nearly seven decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has served as the international authority on issues in global health, working continuously to combat disease, promote public health, and support countries and communities who have been struck by natural disasters and other health emergencies.

He indicated that there were no binding or persuasive authorities on the issue of whether live - in caregivers qualify as roomers or boarders.

The motion Judge found that the mother «had effectively abdicated her parental authority on the issue of access» and found her in contempt of the access order.

That case, called McMurter v. McMurter, gave the court an opportunity to revisit some of the prior authorities on the issue, and to set out the principles that apply to awarding legal costs to self - represented family litigants.

The resemblance to Mr Justice Sumner's guidance and resumé of previous authorities on this issue within Braybrook v Basildon & Thurrock University NHS Trust [2004] EWHC 3352 (QB), [2005] All ER (D) 320 (Apr) is intentional (see box on left).

If the point is one that others have made, the submission will normally carry little, if any, additional weight unless the person is either a recognised authority on the issue or has some special relevant experience that makes his view of particular note.

At work you may be told: «You missed citing the leading authority on this issue.»

Before the Sabean decision, there was but one line of Court of Appeal authority on the issue of the deductibility of CPP disability benefits under SEF44: that from NB, which NS and PEI had adopted.

It is difficult to speak with authority on issues of social justice when there is not enough confidence to speak with authority on issues of faith.

Mr. graham would be the first to tell you is is not the authority on this issue.

Last week, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. weighed in on the debate, saying that although the state had no authority on the issue, he was opposed to «any expansion of current land uses or introduction of new land uses on the parcel beyond what already exists (recycling center / leaf composting).»

BIA aims at bridging the communication gap between the public and the authorities on issues negatively affecting the nation.

You might think this has nothing to do with anything, but being the authority on any issue means people will come to you for advice.

In the absence of any authority on this issue it would appear that the IRS has little ground to object regardless of the approach you use.

He has been quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere as an authority on the issue, frequently called to testify before congressional panels and other public groups, and repeatedly raised questions about whether global warming is occurring.

His authority on this issue has meant a lot to our movement.

Calvin Beisner, the founder of the Cornwall Alliance and one of the main people behind the attack on Pope Francis's anticipated climate and sustainability - focused encyclical, states in a recent video that he is an authority on the issued of climate change because he has «read some 50 books... on the science of climate change.»

The NS decision to go its own way creates two conflicting lines of authority on the issue of the deductibility of CPP disability benefits under the SEF 44 endorsement in Atlantic Canada — and uncertainty over which road PEI and NL will follow.

«In Quebec, there is a tight little media world and any lawyer who attracts attention can easily and quickly get invited to all the major TV and radio studios, most of which are located within a 10 - 15 minute taxi ride of each other in Montreal (with perhaps a handful in Quebec City), and become known as an authority on an issue.

«That made us look like the authority on the issue when we talked to members of the community, the town council, the economic development commission and others,» Thorsteinson said.