Sentences with phrase «considered by the petitions»

«If a relatively small petition that has not even been considered by the Petitions Committee can overturn government policy that was determined after full and comprehensive consultation, and consideration of research findings on a complex issue, then we are concerned for the future direction of policy determination.»

Not exact matches

The court granted her request but also allowed a visitation petition by the child's non-biological mother, ruling it would be inconsistent to consider the latter a parent only for purposes of paying support.

Last week, delegates then spent three days debating Rule 44, which proposed that instead of having a committee of delegates compile and shape the proposals into a final petition, as per usual, the issue of sexuality should instead be considered by all 864 delegates — split into teams of no more than 15 people.

The petitionreads as follows: «We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to allow free votes on the embryology and fathers components of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill when considered by the House of Commons».

In 2013 the FDA responded to CSPI's petition to revoke the legal status of partially hydrogenated oil (the FDA considered that oil to be «generally recognized as safe,» even though it and everyone else considers it to be «generally recognized as dangerous») by proposing that that oil be eliminated from the food supply.

If you'd like to voice your objection to the bill, please consider signing this petition from Food Policy Action and this one launched on Change.org by a second grade teacher worried about the hungry kids in her classroom.

I also hope this post serves as a way of women standing side by side, a show of solidarity, a «petition» of sorts: Dear World, Please Consider This Normal!

The New York Times has an excellent editorial by Jennifer Boylan https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/opinion/trumps-contempt-for-transgender-heroes.html?mwrsm=Facebook Here is a statement from State Senator Brad Hoylman, the only openly LGBTQ member of the NY Senate: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/brad-hoylman/hoylman-denounces-trump-his-discriminatory-ban-transgender Here is a good petition to sign: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/784/587/976/ Finally if you want to hear about more events taking place in the ongoing fight to protect the rights of transgender citizens, consider joining TransPAC: https://transpac.nationbuilder.com/

He said that deeply concerned by this situation, INEC considered the court order and its implication for the Commission's ability to carry out its constitutional function regarding the petition to recall the Senator.

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 reintroduction of e-petitions on the Downing Street website was always likely to spark controversy, particularly when accompanied by a commitment to consider debating in the Commons any petitions achieving 100,000 signatories.

Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions in its report, recommended that Ndume should be suspended which was considered by the lawmakers at the plenary on Wednesday.

Again, the Commission advised DYMOG to redirect its petition to the Director General of the SEC before same may be considered by the administrative and hearings committee.Addressing a news conference Thursday on the matter, Convenor of DYMOG, Edward Tutor, said accused the government of attempts to thwart investigations into the bond which has been condemned by the minority in parliament.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

The petition, signed by almost 800 people as of Saturday, asks the city to consider a two - way protected bike lane — similar to the one on Prospect Park West — from Grand Army Plaza to Empire Boulevard.

The leadership of the group were however dumbfounded by the utterances of the Municipal Chief Executive but went on to plead with her to accept and consider the petition.

The certification levels of proposed teachers may be considered by the local and state authorizers when evaluating the petition.

Opponents took aim at a state commission that would consider petitions after they were denied by local boards.

The meeting had originally been scheduled to consider 34 charter school petitions — including 28 renewals — as part of a routine formality, in which the board signs off on staff recommendations after months of rigorous vetting of the applications by its charter division.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board of Directors and must be submitted to the members, with recommendations of the Board, by the Corresponding Secretary for a vote within three months of the date when the petition was received by the Corresponding Secretary.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board of Directors and must be submitted to the members, with recommendations of the Board, by the Recording Secretary for a vote within three months of the date when the petition was received by the Recording Secretary.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board and must be submitted to the members with recommendations of the Board by the Secretary for a vote within three months of the date when the Secretary received the petition.

The petition must be received by the Secretary no later than 45 days prior to the date of the next meeting of the Board of Directors in order to be considered at that meeting of the Board.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board of Directors and must be mailed First Class to the members with recommendations of the Board by the Recording Secretary for a vote within three months of the date when the petition was received by the Recording Secretary.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board of Directors and must be submitted to the members with the recommendations of the Board by the Corresponding Secretary for a vote within three months of the date when the petition was received by the Corresponding Secretary.

Mary O'Connor Shaver, coalition treasurer, said a petition to ban dog auctions in the state needs 120,700 signatures by Dec. 1 to be considered by the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate and to have the issue placed on the November 2011 ballot.

Amendments proposed by such petition shall be promptly considered by the Board and must then be submitted to the membership.

New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board Considers Climate Change Petition Brought By 28 Youth

Such a decision taken in that regard is not amenable to judicial review, «regardless of whether, by that decision, the Parliament itself takes the appropriate measures or considers that it is unable to do so and refers the petition to the competent institution or department so that that institution or department may take those measures.»

From such an assessment of the rules, the Court suddenly jumped to the conclusion that «in those circumstances, a decision by which the Parliament considers that a petition addressed to it does not meet the conditions laid down in Article 227 TFEU must be amenable to judicial review, since it is liable to affect the right of petition of the person concerned.

The same applies to a decision by which the Parliament, disregarding the very essence of the right of petition, refuses to consider, or refrains from considering, a petition addressed to it and, consequently, fails to verify whether it meets the conditions laid down in Article 227 TFEU.»

In this particular case, the applicant, Mr. Tegebauer, questioned mainly the fact that the decision, by which the committee found his petition not to fall within the areas of activity of the Union and therefore considered it inadmissible, completely lacked justification as to the reasons for adopting the decision on the inadmissibility of the petition.

The three decisions designated as informative illustrate the Board's practices in declining to grant petitions to institute inter partes review under 35 U.S.C. § 325 (d) when a petition relies on grounds already considered by the examiner.

A court considering a fee petition that includes charges for work performed by a freelance attorney should award fees that are reasonable based on the freelance lawyer's qualifications and the nature of the work performed.

(U.S. to be filed December 22, 2017): Urging the Court to grant the petition for cert and address whether, at the pleading stage, a compromise of a damages claim can be transformed into a «reverse payment» by focusing solely on the value transferred by the manufacturer to the patent challenger, without considering the value such a compromise provides to the manufacturer.

Of course, such a view is directly at odds with our Rule 21.1 (a), which provides that» [o] nly the questions set forth in the petition or fairly included therein will be considered by the Court.»

Following a 4 - day trial in October 2008, in which we and the father's lawyers succeeded in establishing that there is no rational basis for denying children the right to be adopted by qualified gay parents, or for denying gay men and lesbians the same rights as other citizens to be considered as adoptive parents, a Miami - Dade County judge declared the statute unconstitutional and granted the father's petition to adopt the children.

The Commission passed the order on a petition filed by the insurance company challenging the Karnataka State Consumer Commission's order directing it to consider the vehicle claim of policy holder Pragathi Constructions.

When the 2014 submission of a petition for recognition of group as a specialty by the Council for Recognition of Specialists and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP) was rejected in 2015, the Council reviewed the rationale provided by CRSPPP and decided to reapply in 2016 to be considered by them in 2017.