Sentences with phrase «by government bodies on»

The JCCF will argue that this is a penalty, imposed by a government body on people who choose to utilize their freedom of association by joining together in exercising their constitutional freedom of religion.

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A Number 10 source said the Government was responding to the recommendations of public sector pay review bodies which are currently reporting to ministers «on a case - by - case basis».
The talking heads on Sun News champion the free market, and rail against meddling by government bodies.
And by pinning his departure on his government's repudiation of transparency and accountability, Rathgeber has diagnosed the body politic and put himself on the right side of an issue at precisely the right time.
On the other hand, the international brokers who are regulated by well - established government bodies providing you a safer and secure trading environment.
Tax rates are calculated by the County Commission, depending on the funding needs of local government bodies and the total value of assessed property in a district.
If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.
Hence the Beijing «consensus», a «soft» document with no binding character on governments or the UN as an intergovernmental body, proves stronger than hard law, which it reinterprets by stealth.
Astonished by God's often miraculous grace in these matters, I commented to a dear friend and brother that that if the Church really behaved as the body of Christ on earth, there would be little need for government transfer payments.
Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.
Putting dads in the data: why the UK needs a rethink on family statistics The Government should review data collection on families by all publicly - funded bodies, which currently risk failing millions of children because they typically gather such weak information about fathers.
Officials from both local government bodies will meet over the next month to work out a possible arrangement to build parking lots on the township property and on the pool site by 2001 for each other's use, they said.
Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (CSF - a body led by Government but including the chemical industry, NGO's, trade unions and others)-- has launched new advice on Authorisation.
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.
'' Members of the Public will recall that members of the two bodies (NLC and NUT) and their hired collaborators last week disrupted the stakeholders» forum organized by the government on the proposed participatory management of some public secondary schools.
Statistics on handling of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act by 43 central government bodies, including all major departments of state.
Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.
«Yesterday's ruling was a landmark ruling that tells about the fact that our courts are working, rule of law is part of our lives and that our democracy is alive and kicking and that at any point in time we can be confident that we have a court to rely on and that when people feel aggrieved by decisions by an arm of government or a constitutional body, they can always appeal and have hearing and sometimes can have their grievances addressed in their favour.
This would run against the thrust of the recent report by the government's independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, which recommended the home secretary make fewer individual decisions on spying and hand the responsibility over to a judge - led body.
The Citizens» Assembly on Electoral Reform was a body created by the government of British Columbia, Canada.
On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».
Over the past year he has diverted his energy to the many theories, encouraged by some disturbing and unanswered questions, surrounding the death of David Kelly, the government's highly respected weapons expert whose body was found in a wood near his Oxfordshire home on July 18 2003.
And I agree with your comments about interactions between bodies of government and students, that includes kids turned on by something about our political system.
The same Democrats who he is now selling out by standing on the sidelines, while Republicans maneuver to maintain control of the Senate body, with the help of the IDC promoting «Coalition government for NYS; which the Governor states he can work with now just as well as a Democratic Senate.
The storm of outrage among civil society organisations over the government's bill to stifle campaigning by voluntary bodies, pressure groups and charities for a year in advance of the next general election has eclipsed debate on the abject weakness of the same bill's proposals for a register of lobbyists.
Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.
«Finally, we call on the international community and rights bodies worldwide to note the growing impunity and gross violation of human rights by the President Muhammadu Buhari - led government tailored to decimate the opposition and cow the media in Nigeria», he added.
He said the moratorium placed on small scale mining by the government was good, saying since then, turbidity levels of water bodies had been declining drastically, and urged all to come on board to help stop «galamsey» in the country.
Other non-profits: for research institutions, government bodies, and private non-profit organizations, the total FTE count includes all current employees, whether on a permanent, temporary, contract, or visiting basis, at all sites covered by the license.
Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.
On 27 August, the government issued a decree that would strip the academy of its autonomy by having other bodies appoint most of its members and making its presidency an appointed position.
The decree — issued just after the start of a 9 - day holiday period — says that from now on, one - third of new academy members will be appointed by the government and one - third by the Council of Higher Education, a body that is also under the government's control.
On the other hand, some professional bodies (in this case, the OPDQ — Quebec's dietitians association), states that cholesterol is no longer considered a preoccupation for people's health (that's my translation from the very last paragraph of the following Written observations dated September 2014 filed by the Association in relation to the federal government's proposed modifications to nutritional labels).
► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.
► A teen girl enters a government building, followed by soldiers pointing rifles and a young man pulls a handgun and pushes her until a woman tells her to step onto a disk on the floor for body scanning; the girl slams the young man's face into a wall, leaving bloody stains on the wall as well as the young man's face and hands and the woman says, «It's OK.
In time, Dean is able to extract the creature from his body, but soon it escapes from captivity, and Dean and his friend Patricia (Demi Moore) must find a way to stop it as they find themselves on the run from brutal government agent Merchant (James Davidson) and a gang of thugs led by Ricus (Luca Bercovici).
The set - up is not unlike The Hunger Games (Red Sparrow director Francis Lawrence also worked on that saga, helming all but the first chapter), with Dominika's body technically owned by a callous government.
New on Blu - ray from Criterion today, this absurdist satire from Nagisa Oshima shows a man executed by the government whose body refuses to die.
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is an independent and non-departmental public body that advises the government on migration issues, sponsored by the Home Office.
As of today, 13 July, cladding from two school buildings has been tested by the Building Research Establishment (BRE), the body carrying out checks on all buildings on behalf of the government.
It was signed by 32 ministers and 3 Heads of government in Asia, expressing the body's official position on global warming.
As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.
He also said he would be open to creating an independent national schools resourcing body, as recommended in the initial Gonski review, to make evidence - based decisions on school funding allocations, so long as the state and territory governments agreed to abide by its decisions.
For its part, the government body overseeing the issue has agreed that authors need to be fairly compensated through ebook lending, but also that every possible step must be taken to ensure that ebook lending by both remote and on - site patrons remains a free service to society.
Bankruptcy will not normally wipe out: (1) money owed for child support or alimony, fines, and some taxes; (2) debts not listed on your bankruptcy petition; (3) loans you got by knowingly giving false information to a creditor, who reasonably relied on it in making you the loan; (4) debts resulting from «willful and malicious» harm; (5) student loans owed to a school or government body, except if the court decides that payment would be an undue hardship; (6) mortgages and other liens which are not paid in the bankruptcy case (but bankruptcy will wipe out your obligation to pay any additional money if the property is taken back by the creditor).
Now that you know the basic concepts on what are bonds and why bonds are preferred by organizations and government bodies alike, it is now also equally important to share facts with you on why to invest in bonds?
On balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stufOn balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stufon Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stuff.
Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.
These reports are then used by inter-governmental treaties, bodies, conferences, and national governments, as the basis for international and national policies on climate change.
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