Sentences with phrase «classified as an act»

In New York, in what is now being classified as an act of terror, a white 28 - year - old man sought out, stabbed and killed a black 66 - year - old on the streets of New York.

Peter's theft of the piano key could be classified as an act of resistance.

The killing spree that left five police officers dead and seven others wounded should be classified as an act of domestic terrorism.

According to Cilna Steyn, Director of SSLR Attorneys and advisor to the Rawson Property Group, a drought of this severity is classified as an Act of God under South African Common Law.

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After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

At issue are current rules that classify internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon as public utility - like «common carriers» under Title II of the Communications Act.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

With Obama's support, Wheeler in 2014 pushed to classify broadband as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act rather than an information service.

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

The U.S. government still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance under the 1970 Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which places it alongside heroin, MMDA and ecstasy as drugs with a high potential for abuse and no approved medical usage.

Fairway is classified as an emerging growth company and therefore arguably benefited from the relief offered by the JOBS Act.

But heterosexuality, in its pretensions to act as the norm for assessing our sexual customs, is marked by something even worse: pride, which St. Thomas Aquinas classifies as the queen of all vices.

The Bible routinely, clearly and strongly classifies all sex acts outside of the bonds of marriage as sinful.

Dietary and sports supplements fall under the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which mandates that products derived from herbs and natural sources be classified as food and not drugs.

The emphasis is necessary there because though the product that Jenkins takes doesn't get him high, it is derived from the cannabis plant, which is classified as a Schedule I drug by the United States Controlled Substances Act, alongside heroin and DMT.

To find out if your job position should be classified as exempt or non-exempt, for more information about Break Time for Nursing Mothers under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or to file a complaint, call 1-866-487-9243 or visit the US Department of Labor's site on break time for nursing mothers.

«Others classify information on the death penalty as a state secret, making its release an act of treason.»

The 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act was later introduced to provide guidance on controlled drugs, and cannabis was classified as a «class B» drug.

The election cycles where a Conservative might someday with a statewide gubernatorial race is not far - fetched, so we might yet see the day when the GOP is Row C — and ironically classified as a minor party — if they don't get their acts together soon.

How else does one classify the Eyinnaya Abaribe drama of «nominating» Bukola Saraki as «acting president», when Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is not only in place, but well in the country when that senatorial rascality was bracting president», when Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is not only in place, but well in the country when that senatorial rascality was brActing President Yemi Osinbajo is not only in place, but well in the country when that senatorial rascality was brewing?

In 2003, Congress passed the PROTECT Act, which classified computer generated child pornography as «obscene,» but this law didn't eliminate the so - called «virtual defense» because juries are reluctant to send a defendant to prison for merely possessing computer - generated imagery when no real child was harmed.

Currently, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, meaning it is considered to have a high potential for abuse, no accepted medical value and lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

In May the U.S. Department of the Interior classified polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The most recent blow came in June, when FWS stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act classifies DE as safe for household use.

The original Anabolic Steroid Control Act was passed in 1990 creating a list of anabolic steroids that would be classified as «Schedule III» substances and put in the same category as drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

In 1938 the US Congress enacted into law the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) classifying homeopathic medicines as drugs.

The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 unfairly classified all forms of cannabis as a drug, making it illegal to grow.

Quinoa acts like a grain and is usually classified as a grain, but it's actually a seed, and it's loaded with nutrition.

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in Octobeas recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in OctobeAs the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

The proportion of public schools meeting their prescribed achievement targets under the No Child Left Behind Act appears to have fallen slightly in the 2005 - 06 school year, while the percent classified under the law as needing improvement increased.

In order to determine if Act 10 affected urban areas of Wisconsin differently than rural areas, the authors» analysis classifies counties using the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Urban - Rural Classification Scheme for Counties.39 (see Appendix 1) The NCHS's four metropolitan classification levels, which include counties within metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, are combined in this analysis.

King was addressing members of the media about new proposed policies under the Every Student Succeeds Act, which will support mandated local liaisons in school districts to help identify and offer resources to students who classify as homeless.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a Federal law that gives you the right to access any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) records unless DOT reasonably foresees that the release of the information in those records would harm an interest protected by one or more of the nine exemptions (such as classified national security, business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative documents) or release is prohibited by law.

to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age; to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's age; or to reduce the wage rate of any employee in order to comply with this Act.

They will classify the money as debt, which acts as an offset to income.

Because student loans are classified as consumer loans, the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act protects borrowers from unfair collection practices.

As of the 1993 Alabama Pawnshop Act, title loan lenders are classified as pawnbrokers, meaning they have to abide by a certain set of laws, laid out in the acAs of the 1993 Alabama Pawnshop Act, title loan lenders are classified as pawnbrokers, meaning they have to abide by a certain set of laws, laid out in the aAct, title loan lenders are classified as pawnbrokers, meaning they have to abide by a certain set of laws, laid out in the acas pawnbrokers, meaning they have to abide by a certain set of laws, laid out in the actact.

According to the IRS, when money is lent to a partnership or a corporation that acts as a pass - through entity by the entity's owner, the income earned as interest on that loan to the portfolio income is classified as passive income.

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It is classified as a vasodilator as well as a phosphodiesterase type V inhibitor.1 The 2 other medications that are used for erectile dysfunction (vardenafil and tadalafil) act similarly.

While the American Kennel Club has classifications for certain breeds of dog that determine them as working dogs the fact is that a dog does not have to feature in one of these classified breeds to act as a working dog.

The ingredients in ProZinc (protamine zinc insulin) are classified as long - acting with duration of effect for 10 - 14 hours.

16 percent (one in six) of dogs are classified as «serious» stool eaters, which means that they were caught in the act five times.

This precarious, athletic, and quasi-domestic act of labor ultimately raised questions of how action is gendered and classified, either as work or as play.

This exhibition wishes to consider flesh not as a category to read, decode or classify, but as a material that acts as much as is acted upon, infiltrates and is informed by the systems around it.

All cannabis, including hemp, contains delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

There is good and evil in the world and although I've met a handful of people I'd truly classify as evil, it's my experience that the majority of evil deeds done are by ordinary people who think they're somehow acting on behalf of a higher good or bringing a brighter future closer.

Polar bears are listed as a threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act and are classified as «vulnerable» with declining populations on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources» Red List.