Sentences with phrase «by a petition process»

The nominating committee's slate can be challenged by candidates nominated by a petition process from the members; but the way things normally work — and always, now, for the officers — «elections» take place with only one person «competing» for each slot.

Not exact matches

This premium processing fee gets your petition reviewed by USCIS before the rest of the lot, assuming your application gets chosen in the lottery.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

The only people who took the process seriously were the ones that thought they were truly «making a difference» by attaching their name to an email petition.

In December 2007, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board dismissed with prejudice, the Petition for Cancellation of Smokey Chipotle where Kraft Foods conspired with Urban Accents, Inc. (listed below) in a failed challenge by alleging Smokey Chipotle is a generic phrase for a chile chipotle (a variety of processed chile, i.e., a spice); heretofore the word «chipotle» was already disclaimed as a condition of registration at the U.S. Trademark office in 1995.

Assuming that you were approached by members, would it not have been more effective to (a) assist them in writing a letter in their own words and (b) assist them in learning the very simple process of creating a transparent online petition through Change.org.

No doubt some consumers do fear the use of ammonium - hydroxide to process their food, but nothing in the wording of my Change.org petition or my writing or speaking about this issue has ever once sought to confuse the public by associating this chemical with the cleaning agent you keep under your sink.

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In such matters, one would have thought that the Disciplinary Committee would exhaust the process of ensuring that the petition was properly filed in the records of the General Secretary as well as ruling on the preliminary objections as raised by the lawyers of the National Chairman.

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, after subjecting the Management of four different banks, where the first lady had accounts, directed that those accounts not encumbered by any legal process be re-opened.

Petitions are also commonly used by a number of parliaments (the UK parliamentary process is unfortunately particularly poorly designed) and local governments, providing citizens with the opportunity to petition their representatives to consider a particular matter.

The process for removal includes an initial petition and response, followed by legal briefs.

According to Frederico Polsinelli, Bo Deitl's campaign manager, the petition to ballot was filed by Reform Party members who support Dietl and «felt that Bo had been shut out unfairly and felt that the Reform Party should have an open, fair process to vote.»

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

Today marks the start of the six - week process of designating petitions, where candidates are typically joined by hordes of volunteers in collecting the required number of signatures to place themselves on the ballot for September's party primaries.

Without the petition process, candidates would be chosen by political party chairmen, which the Republican Caucus opposes because it removes the people from the process.

He described the petition as «flamboyantly outrageous and totally without basis,» but expressed intent to abide by due process in the matter.

Senator Dino Melaye's refusal to be served with the petition to recall him as ordered by the Federal High court despite six attempts, has prevented the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from proceeding with the process.

The meeting was postponed by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) upon receiving complaints from Townsend Harris» School Leadership Team for the lack of information about the C - 30 process, coupled with reports of student demonstrations and petitions with thousands of signatures.

«The Spitzer campaign took great care in the petitioning process and filed far more than the number of valid signatures required by law.»

Axelrod confirms that he has specifically requested the approximately 140 petitions submitted by Legislator Sparaco, with accompanying documentation he has provided, be forwarded to Rockland County District Attorney, Thomas Zugibe and the United States Attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bahara, as the parties most responsible for investigations of alleged impropriety in the electoral process.

It shall (i) prepare the agenda for meetings of the Council; (ii) receive or initiate, coordinate, and advise the Council on reports of Council committees, resolutions, and proposed actions submitted for consideration by the Council; (iii) review applications for affiliation with the Association and petitions to terminate affiliation, and make recommendations thereon to the Council; (iv) at three - year intervals, review the process for nominating and electing Fellows, and make recommendations thereon to the Council; (v) annually present to the Members of the Association for election by mail ballot, or by electronic means, at least two nominations for each position to be filled on the Committee on Nominations through election by the Members.

However, the petition created by the group of parents stated that their stand was not against healthy eating, but against the process by which the decision had been made.

«This ballot question actually takes a fairly tempered approach to increasing access in a gradual process, year by year, with retention of the important oversight of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,» said Christopher Anderson, a former chairman of the state Board of Education and one of the petition's signers.

Most of those proposals require a process by which parents, and in some cases teachers, can sign a petition to initiate a specific intervention in the operation of the school.

Petitions will then be subject to an evaluation process and will ultimately be approved or denied by the State Board of Education.

Completely changes the petition approval process by inserting fiscal reasons for the first time, in spite of the fact that California's charter law already has clear reasons for why a petition can be denied

They were part of a parent union driving a petition process to force reforms by invoking the state's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, known as the parent trigger.

According to the Senate bill analysis, «This bill requires all charter school petitions to be approved by the governing board of the school district in which the charter school is located, prohibits a charter school from locating outside its authorizer's boundaries, and limits the current charter appeal process to claims of procedural violations.»

The statute provides that the regulations to be issued by the Secretary may provide an opportunity for the manufacturer to present information before the Secretary's determination as to whether the manufacturer's imports should be restricted and establish a process by which a manufacturer may petition for reinstatement of its ability to import motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment.

establish a process by which a manufacturer may petition for reinstatement of its ability to import motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment.

The bankruptcy petition is an official form filed by the person who wants to begin the Bankruptcy process.

But instead of the usual online petitions and angry blog posts, the indie devs have gone several steps further: They're calling Langdell out by changing the titles of their own games to include the word «edge,» and in the process, instigating a large - scale public mockery of the CEO's repeated transgressions against game developers.

FOCU's petition echoed the arguments put forward by the student occupiers: «The college has illegitimately been made to adopt the policy of tuition as a result of a top - down administrative structure that, from [its] inception, relied on disregarding the voices and contributions of students, faculties, and the community at large in vital decision - making processes.»

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/phil-jones-and-ben-santer-comment-on-cei/ Prof. Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK and Ben Santer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory comment in response to a petition to EPA by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Pat Michaels, which misleadingly seeks to obstruct EPA's process in making an «endangerment» finding on greenhouse gases.

The process described by Dr. Vogel is consistent with the IPCC's guidance on the use of gray literature, as previously described in Volume 1 of the RTC document and further discussed in Subsection 2.2.4.4 of this Response to Petitions (RTP) document.

Also floated was using the White House petition process — by submitting 100,000 signatures, «the administration will issue a statement on why it isn't reconsidering the Endangerment Finding.»

Withdrawal of the National Assessment now could obviate the need for a formal administrative petition, and potential judicial review, once these processes are established by October 2002 through agency implementing guidelines.

A key provision of the ABC petition would have the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) establish a permitting process that would significantly improve the protection of birds covered by the MBTA and would afford the wind industry a degree of regulatory and legal certainty that can not be provided in the absence of such a process.

A recent survey published by Liz Trinder at the University of Exeter suggested that 62 % of petitioning parties and 78 % of respondents said that using fault - based grounds had made the divorce process more bitter.

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Citing the court rules governing the reinstatement process, she wrote: «We have chosen, however, not to make disbarment permanent for even the most serious offenses, opting instead to allow all disbarred attorneys to seek readmission and have the merits of their petitions judged on a case - by - case basis.

But if your mother didn't petition for your citizenship at that time, or if your mother wasn't a citizen when you were born due to foreign marriage or the citizenship having been stripped by the Nazis and thus couldn't have petitioned for your citizenship at the time, then you now qualify for naturalization under the process described in the second link, if you can demonstrate fluency in German and / or other connections to Germany.

Otherwise, he could only restart his practice by proving he was fit to practice law and able to meet the duties of a lawyer, a lengthy and difficult process involving petitioning the state bar for reinstatement.

Some of the lowest numbers of filings occurred in the BVI and the Isle of Man where alternative processes to petitions exist for creditors or shareholders, while Mauritius returned a disproportionately high number of filings, fuelled by a significantly larger population and domestic economy.

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«The respondent has patently exercised fraud on power by misuse of its power in breach of law, by taking into account, extraneous matters and by ignoring relevant matter,» the petition stated that the vitiated process rendered the selection process «ultra vires» and a case of «fraud on powers.»