Sentences with phrase «controls national decisions»

The heat with which the Brexit debate is being conducted has fostered a mantra that the Lords is an unelected body that nonetheless controls national decisions.

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«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» the company said in a statement.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» Delta's statement said.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views - in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

There are two principal types of socialism: «full socialism» in which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial socialism», in which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views — in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Whatever issue may come before me as President — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates.

This control of political decisions by economic interests is already a serious problem at the national level.

Speculation has been rife over the reasons behind the last - minute delay in signing a contract with EDF, with May's government keen to play down rumours that the decision was down to fears of Chinese control over national infrastructure.

Many people in Britain were willing to accept a smaller Gross Domestic Product if the payoff entailed greater control over their own national decisions.

Off late however, we see a counter-trend, as member states seek to strengthen their role through the European Council, and as national parliaments themselves become better organised in their attempts to control the EU decision - making process.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

In this June 7, 2007, file photo Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - N.Y. speaks about the Prevention First Act, on the 42nd anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut decision that guaranteed the right to birth control, at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington.

Pakistan's «tribal areas» which are the source of many bombings like the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel which is home to many bombers when this was a common occurrence in Israel, are both only weakly under the control of the central national government's authority, but it is much more practicable for Israel to wall off the areas that it does not fully control (which was the single most important policy decision that led to fewer bombings in Israel) than it is to do so in Pakistan.

A foreign national shall not direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in the decision making process of any person, such as a corporation, labor organization, political committee, or poltiical organization with regard to such person's Federal or non-Federal election - related activities, such as decisions concerning the making of contributions, donations, expenditures, or disbursements in connection with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee.

The decision on an issue that has garnered national attention rests in the hands of the three voting members of the control board, one of whom is Cuomo's budget director.

Mr. de Blasio said the decision to include policies that might fall outside the city's control derived, in part, from a conversation with Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, whose long - term plans have «assumed a meaningful role for their national government.»

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is excited for the opportunity to collaborate with new leadership at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and U.S. Department of Agriculture to share our vision for education and school nutrition that focuses on local control and empowers local decision - making.

Individual school turnarounds are hard to do because principals usually don't control budgets (which usually means teachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their performance.

The plan would give states control of energy development decisions on Public Lands, which would threaten 30 national park units including the Everglades and Theodore Roosevelt Nationnational park units including the Everglades and Theodore Roosevelt NationalNational Park.

With regard to the imputability of national measures to the State, which is ordinarily largely presumed in case of legislative acts and predominantly based on the control exerted over the public undertaking in case of decisions taken by the latter, the AG appears to carry out a test based on remoteness.

Among them, one can find foreign ownership and control, outsourcing and offshoring, preservation of and access to our legal heritage, access to French and English translations of appellate court decisions on subjects of national interest, the definition of a public document, copyright in compilations, and government funding.

Stadium Capital Holdings No 2 v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 3548 (Admin) Whether the National Planning Policy Framework applies to decisions about advertisement control

Proposals and decisions that seek to alter the Indigenous land base are of particular significance in my role as Social Justice Commissioner given Australia's obligations under national and international instruments with respect to Indigenous people's rights to non-discriminatory treatment and ownership and control of land.