Sentences with phrase «bulwark against»

«By hewing to the statute, this Strategic Plan provides the Bureau a ready roadmap, a touchstone with a fixed meaning that should serve as a bulwark against the misuse of our unparalleled powers.»

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In Edwards» ninth - grade class on contemporary global issues and geography, think empathy and how acquiring a greater appreciation of diversity can be a bulwark against bullying.

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Several years ago Facebook started to limit what apps could scrape from friends» profiles even with permission, but the basic configuration of user consent as a bulwark against abuse hasn't changed.

Whitepapers serve as a bulwark against this unethical behaviour.

This could explain its resilience and ability to weather the storm due to its association with gold, the historic bulwark against market turbulence.

The SFO needs a safe harbour as a bulwark against widespread disquiet that it is condoning two - tier justice, one rule for big companies, another for individuals.

They are the «conscience of the community» and the «bulwark against oppressive laws or their enforcement» (R v Sherratt, [1991] 1 SCR 509, 1991 CanLII 86 (SCC)-RRB-.

First, it provided something of a bulwark against interventionist judges, thereby protecting the autonomy of administrative decision - makers and promoting deference.

On a macro level, though, this decision has far more reaching implications — it ensures uniformity across the judicial landscape and stands a bulwark against interpretist judges attempting to rewrite non-ambiguous collective bargaining agreements, substituting their own judgment for those of the contracting parties, because they may think it is «fair» to employees to do so.

The Court, however, saw it as a bulwark against a threat to its character.

But since it exists and is more than simply a possible wrong a jury could commit, then we have to think seriously about whether we do enough to ensure it's exercised only when it ought to be — i.e., as a bulwark against oppressive laws and the conscience of the community.

However, in exceptional cases, when acting as the conscience of the community and as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement, jurors may properly refuse to apply the law as written.

Yet the Supreme Court has explicitly recognized that jurors have the power to refuse to apply the law, are the conscience of their community, and serve as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement.

They are the «conscience of the community» and the «bulwark against oppressive laws or their enforcement» (R v Sherratt [1991] 1 SCR 509).

But the power jurors enjoy, their role as the conscience of the community and as a bulwark against the enforcement of oppressive laws, means that their duties can not be expressed purely in adjudicative terms.

The latest horror to attract the mandatory minimum treatment is not the blight of domestic violence or a renewed bulwark against terrorist threats.

The first comprehensive history of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Moore's book is the definitive and eminently readable account of the court that has been called everything from a bulwark against tyranny to murderer's row — U of T Press

At the same time, he contends, the news media could and should be the most effective bulwark against wrongful convictions.

This article was published in the April 2018 issue of the ABA Journal with the title, «The Balance of Power: 2018 Law Day theme of separation of powers highlights important bulwark against tyranny.»

Deforestation, which had been on decline for years, surged nearly 300 % in September; and it happened as evidence mounts that healthy forests — arguably nature's single most effective bulwark against climate change — can lose more carbon than they absorb if subjected to extreme drought.

See also Ayako Mie & Jesse Johnson, Amid South China Sea Spat, Japan Foreign Aid White Paper Stresses Importance of Sea Lanes, JAPAN TIMES (Tokyo), Mar. 11, 2016 («experts say Japan's pledge to help secure sea lanes — especially those in the South China Sea — reflects its intention to shore up regional alliances as a bulwark against an increasingly bellicose China.»)

This was mainly an exercise in getting more sensible estimates published in a major journal using the IPCC's own numbers as a bulwark against the more pessimistic and speculative numbers which are usually published.

The thesis advisors would have foreseen objections as obvious as the ones raised and ensured the author had established in the paper a solid bulwark against such a slam.

Its disappearance, driven by warming waters and rising air temperatures, means the region is losing a bulwark against even more dramatic sea ice loss.

Residents of the Pacific Northwest have long been a bulwark against coal and oil corporations, defeating destructive mega-projects like the Gateway Pacific coal terminal in Whatcom County, Washington and the Waterside Energy oil refinery in Longview, Washington.

The same transparency over ownership should apply to all other companies, as a further bulwark against the danger of corrupt practices.

Serge Guilbaut explored America as a rising expansionist Empire in its own right, exporting its new art around the world as a «soft power» influence and cultural bulwark against the Soviet threat.

Their painting is sturdy, durable — it rests on thick beams of wood or of steel, a bulwark against the taste of the committee.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Majula is the last bulwark against the world's decay, and a simple one at that.

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But perhaps the most important reason to continue to hold bonds is that, rising rates or no, bonds still fulfill what for long - term investors is their most important function: They act as a bulwark against the volatility of the stock market.

Simply put, this financial asset is a bulwark against all manner of crisis that can impact the financial markets.

«The Private Mortgage Insurance Eligibility Requirements, recently put forth by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, are... a thoughtful effort, these standards should succeed in ensuring that private mortgage insurers are strong counterparties to the government - sponsored enterprises and a much improved bulwark against excessive risk in the system.»

Regardless of rate increases, fixed income should remain a consideration in investor portfolios to help act as a bulwark against equity volatility.

In keeping with the universally applicable logic of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, every online community of sufficient size will inevitably attract trolls, harassment, bullying and all manner of accordant awfulness, with the level of active moderation being literally the only bulwark against anarchy.

Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions.

Until now, the three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have stood as a bulwark against the encroaching evil, their swords defending the innocent and helpless.

For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain.

That's a big deal, because just as Netflix and Hulu are now being forced to delay content in order to appease traditional sales channels, physical comic retailers had been using their exclusive access to the latest and greatest comics as a bulwark against the inevitable move to digital.

That explains the X1 / 9's unique design: The targa hoop offered open - roof driving with a bulwark against the threat of new rollover crash requirements.

• Policymakers often defend public schools as more democratic and diverse than private schools, but in the past public schools served as a restrictive mode of socialization — for instance, when they were advocated as a bulwark against private Catholic schooling.

An expressed commitment to more distributed leadership may, for example, conflict with a deeper, hidden commitment to preserving decision - making autonomy at the top of an organization as a bulwark against the erosion of senior managements» status and rewards.

by Bryant Frazer Death Wish director Michael Winner tried his hand at a boilerplate horror flick with The Sentinel, another in the long - running cycle of American horror films that doubled as scary religious propaganda, with the faith of Catholic priests the last bulwark against harrowing incursions by Satan himself on our mortal realm.

Majula is the last bulwark against the world's decay, and a simple one at that.

When art, by sheer dint of its existence, can, at its best, genuinely function as a tool of ennoblement, of resistance, as a bulwark against the noxious ooze pouring out of Washington, it's frustrating to watch same old practices played out in the face of obvious opportunity to do something better.

Consider that the corn silo Arlo's family constructs as bulwark against starvation is infiltrated, easily, by Spot.