Sentences with phrase «contentious provision»

He also wants to impose a minimum tax on foreign earnings, a move opposed by multinational corporations and perhaps the most contentious provision in the president's plan.

One of the more contentious provisions, however, was removed from the plan.

Legislators made a push for the funding, which would have been spread out over five years, after the long - awaited federal budget accord eliminated some of the more contentious provisions of the Clinton administration program.

But Obama and Duncan want to keep some of its most contentious provisions, including the «turnaround» requirements that compel staff turnover in failing schools.

The Republican Party's final tax overhaul bill, which Congress approved in mid-December, was passed without several contentious provisions that would have directly affected the Syracuse University community.

Tax bill passed without many contentious provisions that would have affected Syracuse University

The bill touches nearly every aspect of the state power sector and originally contained a number of contentious provisions such as the elimination of retail rate net metering and imposition of mandatory residential demand charges.

Jennifer Craven reports on new guidance on contentious provisions in the Bribery Act relating to extraterritoriality

A Manhattan appeals court ruled on Thursday in two separate lawsuits that a long - established but contentious provision of the New York civil rights code prevents the disciplinary records of city police officers from being publicly released.

Also included: a contentious provision to pare down annual cost of living increases in benefits for military retirees under age 62.

A high - profile teacher evaluation agreement was but days old Friday when Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the district's teachers union expressed sharp disagreement over a contentious provision.

Another contentious provision included in the conference report stripped prior language that would protect LGBT students.

We conducted an analysis of the contentious provisions in the context of the trust as a whole, and developed a legal argument to support a favourable construction of the trust, buttressed by the leading secondary authorities, old English case law, as well as current Canadian cases.

Justices Louis LeBel, Marie Deschamps, Rosalie Abella, and Marshall Rothstein found almost exactly the opposite; they considered the contentious provisions to be about health, a provincial matter, and therefore unconstitutional.

In addition to the four sample items identified above, it may also be appropriate to include sections in the Transition Memo dealing with items such as confidential and personal information, personnel and assets, unusual or contentious provisions and open points.

The federal government replied that the contentious provisions were ancillary to its criminal law power and therefore constitutional.