Sentences with phrase «challenge against the practice»

Washington — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. last week ordered that prayer in Alabama schools be stopped until a federal court challenge against the practice is resolved.

In January 2015, CCLA along with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) launched a challenge against the practice of solitary confinement of prisoners in Canada's federal penitentiaries, arguing that such practices can constitute torture, and cruel and unusual treatment, contrary to the Charter.

Not exact matches

Thomas J. Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Tuesday that there were «serious, growing and legitimate challenges» about Chinese practices, but he also cautioned against the effect of a tit - for - tat tariff war.

Since its start as a stress - reduction program in 2003, the Challenge Success team has felt it «had to speak out against an increasingly fast - paced world that was interfering with sound educational practices and harming kids physically and mentally,» the introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared» reads.

Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

The practice of using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims lodged against public officials was upheld in 2008 after a taxpayer filed suit in State Supreme Court to challenge a $ 500,000 settlement paid to woman who accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's then - counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

Players are challenged to perfect 20 different ball - handling skills and increase their stamina in single player mode, break it down and practice different skills in Move School mode or show off in multiplayer mode and go head - to - head against up to eight players — the highest score wins bragging rights.

This is one of the questions explored by Finn and his coauthor Brandon Wright in the Harvard Education Press title, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students, in which they take U.S. practices and set them against those of other countries in order to find the best ways to support our brightest students.

Ms. Reilly also has maintained an active pro bono practice, including successfully representing a coalition of New York City charter schools in defending against challenges to their co-locations by individuals and governmental entities within the district school buildings.

This can be clearly observed in the changing nature of Zamano's business — Spain & Australia proved a bust, their US business is now in wind - down as Verizon and AT&T tightened up their policies, and even their Irish business is under serious threat due to Comreg's new Code of Practice (& the failure of legal challenge (s) against it).

The game has a very limited set of single player functionality, a small number of challenge rooms that act as a tutorial and offering you a place to practice the mechanics, but the game is designed for online play against other humans and offers no AI opponents of any sort.

Players can also practice against dummy AI in the practice arena found through Back doors which lead to sort of a central hub area in which the player can relax, hit a ball around, or attempt to complete any unlocked challenges.

Here you have a Practice Arena which allows you to train against the CPU, tackle combo challenges and battle tutorials.

Everything you unlock in Career mode (ships, powerups, racing classes, events and racetracks) will be consequently available for Quick Race mode, where you can practice against the AI or challenge your friends in local multiplayer.

Players have their choice of three gameplay modes: Free Play allows players jump in to play practice matches with your choice of gameplay options; Challenge Mode lets players compete in a variety of events that deliver fast frenetic gameplay to boast their scores; Champion Cup Mode allows players to compete against 10 athletes to become the ultimate champion

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

From 70s Slovakian conceptual artist Julius Koller working under the Soviet regime to Zero artist Heinz Mack working in post war Germany, the exhibition focuses on artists, who by going against current practices, presented a new way of working and looking that challenged the art establishment.

In «Dirt is Good,» Gilbert challenges parents to go against common practice in a few key ways.

Against the backdrop of this challenge, on 27 March 2017 the IEA brought together over 100 experts from 30 countries from governments, business, academia and the finance sector to share best practices and policy actions needed to scale up action to achieve SDG7.

Conducted by its FTI Technology segment, this installment of the Advice from Counsel study highlights a number of growing challenges within Fortune 1000 organizations, and offers insights for legal teams to measure their own program's effectiveness against the best practices of in - house peers.

Our role as lead M&A counsel to Anthem on this historic transaction also includes our antitrust practice leading the defense of the merger against a high - profile challenge brought by the US Department of Justice.

Obtaining dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio brought by physicians against a health insurance provider challenging the insurer's claims handling and reimbursement practices.

Mr. Rusonik practices throughout Ontario and is particularly fond of defending clients against improper police conduct in jurisdictions where such conduct is rarely challenged.

And whether it's Brexiteers picketing the firm's fancy new London office (Mishcon led the high profile challenge against the invoking of Article 50), or celebrity clients getting papped as they stop by for a bit of high value legal advice, this clever little practice always manages to find itself in the limelight.

I practice throughout Ontario and am particularly fond of defending clients against improper police conduct in jurisdictions where such conduct is rarely challenged.

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The reality of practice, amply reflected in many state and federal court opinions, shows that the challenge may be, and unfortunately at times has been, used to discriminate against black jurors.

Over 2014 a working group of community legal clinics, ONIWG and the OWA formed a strategy to challenge these practices of the Board as discriminatory against injured workers.

Despite these challenges, and against growing competition from Big Law's IP practice groups, boutiques believe their specialist approach will continue to attract clients.

When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.

You can use the SVS Elevation speakers in acoustically challenging rooms, appease your spouse's aesthetic demands, or even go against conventional best practice when you need to.

Players are challenged to perfect 20 different ball - handling skills and increase their stamina in single player mode, break it down and practice different skills in Move School mode or show off in multiplayer mode and go head - to - head against up to eight players — the highest score wins bragging rights.