Sentences with phrase «corporation over the rights»

This was a win for the «rights» of a corporation over the rights of living, breathing individuals.

The final deal, signed by over 200 nations, favored the rights and voices of corporations over the rights and voices of people across the planet.

Not exact matches

Why is it that large established corporations, even when they see upstarts bearing down on them, can't react or at least to get out of the way before the new guys roll right over them?

Japan Gold Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused solely on gold and copper - gold exploration in Japan, holding 32 prospecting rights and 178 prospecting rights applications in Japan over 17 separate projects.

Her company, Hi - Bridge Consulting Corporation, has exclusive rights to sell Yanjing beer across Canada, and she is also distributing over 20 kinds of Chinese spirits.

Since no one has yet to SEE an atom, the idea of the structure of the atom can only be inferred by experimental evidence — yet I see no Republican trying to stop teaching the structure of the atom in school — oh that's right, its because major corporations and industries rely on this science (pharm, weapons manufacturers etc etc) whereas the theory of evolution is merely think piece of scientists on how life on Earth changes over time.

CUB will take over the rights for Corona from rival brewer Lion, which is owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation.

Lion, owned by Japan's Kirin Corporation, has held the licence to sell Corona in Australia since 2012 when it took over the rights to the brand, which has 5.9 per cent by volume of the total beer market in Australia in its own right.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

«Unlike the many documentaries that have exposed this problem over the years, this movie will not only entertain, but will reach many more people at a very personal level — showing the pressure on those who work for these transnational corporations and the realities we face in our work when trying to stop human rights abuses.

The EU blocks citizens» groups from challenging a secret US trade deal which could give corporations rights over governments

EU - US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are taking place in Brussels this week, would give corporations litigation rights over national parliaments, meaning any policy which loses them money will be severely punished in the arbitration tribunals.

Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Maikanti Baru, over an allegation of corruption.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN has expressed displeasure over the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC's rejection of his Freedom of Information request for accountability.

«When you elevate the rights of corporations to pollute over the rights of people to have a clean environment, then you get this pattern of unequal protection.

Civil libertarianism is a strain of political thought that supports civil liberties, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure, etc.).

Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?

Though it claims to be nonpartisan, the membership of this influential group is made up of mostly right - wing politicians in legislatures all over the country who propose «draft» legislation promoting tax benefits to corporations, banks, and the wealthy.

Shouting «Move on over corporate takeover,» the group protested the film's financial backers, right - wing billionaires Philip Anschutz (of Walden Media) and Rupert Murdoch (CEO of News Corporation).

I feel one shouldn't have to go through that trouble to get the update, they should be able to get the update ota from Sony, in good faith, but sometimes you can't help but be screwed over by a corporation (it's in their nature) and be forced into the «if you want things done right, do it yourself» situation.

USG Corporation (USG) threw a nice slow, almost perfect pitch right over my plate this week.

This is one of the areas where the right to contract should be limited, so that corporations do not have to be looking over their back to see if someone has an interest in their demise.

Nintendo controls the rights to its IP, and that can spill over into areas that stretch the limits, but too many people think all the power and rights automatically lie with the giant corporation, and it's just not that simple or black & white a lot of the time.

Women came from all over the world to tell their stories at COP22 — stories about how their rights, their communities, their people, and their bodies have been violated by both corporations and the governments meant to protect them.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Ordinary Americans, evidently exhausted or apathetic or adequately vindicated after electing Barack Obama to right the wrongs of the last decade, sat idle over the last two years while a raging, billionaire - sponsored Tea Party rewrote our narrative: It wasn't corporations or bankers or executives that caused the economy to crash, that caused our woes.

This is unlike the United States where over half the States have specific anti-SLAPP legislation and First Amendment rights to free speech that provide rules for the better protection of the right to protest and speak out against government agencies and corporations.

Since its introduction we have been flooded with requests to resolve issues using the platform, and I am proud to say that within 10 months of its introduction we could resolve a major dispute between a Business Corporation in UAE and their Counterpart in India, which was in the courts for more than four years, over the proprietary rights of the business in India.

He is the author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (2018) and Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America (2011).

The Service Charges (Summary of Rights and Obligations, and Transitional Provision)(England) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/1257)(the SCR regulations) deal with the form and content of the summary but have no application to leases from a local authority, a national park authority or a new town corporation unless for over 21 years.

She declined to weigh in on whether corporations have too much control over the Internet, how she defines «judicial activism,» and whether there are any limits on Congress» power to protect voting rights.

James Sandman: Any proposal from the President to defund the Legal Services Corporation is something that of course we take very seriously but Congress will ultimately decide what our funding is, not the executive branch or an independent agency that Congress makes appropriations to directly and based on our 42 - year history, based on our experience with Congress over the last few years based on feedback we're getting from members of Congress right now, I remain optimistic that Congress will continue to fund us.

(a) It seems to me that there may still be room to argue that a condominium corporation can «revive» its lien rights by way of Application under Section 134 of the Act, but on the understanding that the revived lien will not take priority over any unit mortgage.

In a global economy where multinational companies yield increasing power and influence over government, many see it as right that they should be able to comment as freely on corporations as they do on government without fear of being sued.

A corporation may acquire, hold and dispose of property, including communal property; sue and be sued in its own right; can continue to exist even if its membership changes over time; and may protect its members from personal liability for acts undertaken by the corporation.

The determination also recognises the right of native title holders to «make decisions about the use and enjoyment of the NT determination area by Aboriginal people who recognise themselves to be governed by Aboriginal traditional laws and customs» (23) And provides for exclusive rights over three fee simple areas granted to Aboriginal Corporations in the early 1990s (24).

Even now, many corporations (particularly RNTBCs, land trusts, and state and territory land rights corporations) have small memberships that serve a large constituency spread over large geographic areas.

If agents rely on the corporate brokerage website and to do the work supplied as noted in this article, one could expect the corporation would own the rights to the given over, existing agent database info, turned over obviously under the guise of taking the workload off the agent.