Sentences with phrase «decision abolishing it»

The Supreme Court of Canada has coined the phrase «mental injury» in a sweeping decision abolishing misguided prejudices over «psychological», «emotional» or «psychiatric» injury claims in the law of tort.

In the CLE session, sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section, Stubbs walked the audience through the current state of the death penalty in the United States, how racial discrimination affects who is sentenced to death, and how the diminished use of the death penalty could form the basis for a future Supreme Court decision abolishing it entirely.

In an attempt to avoid heart balm statutes and court decisions abolishing alienation of affections and criminal conversation, wronged spouses have tried various other causes of action to soothe the aching heart.

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Five months after the decision was made to do away with typewiters at Apple Computer, the term «secretary» was abolished and replaced by «area associate» to reflect the more varied responsibilities made possible by personal computers.

Moreover, the Christian today can make such a decision only with the realization that to affirm the presence of the New Jerusalem is inevitably to engage in a pathetic falsification of reality, and a falsification that can truly be known to derive from an infantile or resentful attempt to abolish reality.

The unlimited freedom of everybody to claim absolute freedom for everything works like a sort of secret brain - washing by anonymous powers which does not necessarily abolish freedom but narrows in advance the sphere in which the individual can make his free decision.

Let there be no mistake about the impact of the Roe and Doe decisions: they did not «liberalize» abortion law; they abolished abortion law in all fifty states.

Christians in Nepal are exulting over the national parliament's dramatic decision on May 18 to abolish the monarchy and declare the state secular, wiping out its tag as a Hindu kingdom.

The decision is an important one: The ruling abolishes the option of organic cage free eggs, which is a misleading term in the egg industry.

The decision by Spokane Public Schools to abolish the valedictorian system and traditional class rankings is defended as a way of reducing student stress («Spokane schools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Feb. 3).

They can not be easily abolished or changed by simple decision of the country's government.

First, there is the need to abolish the State monopoly on integration; cities, regions, professional associations and NGOs should get access to the European decision - making and resources.

Abolishing the 50p rate costs ministers political pain in the months after it was cut and by refusing to join Labour in re-introducing the 50p rate - Labour hopes this decision will cause more pain for David Cameron and George Osborne.

This, combined with the coalition's decisions to abolish Regional Development Agencies, the 27 per cent of cuts to local government services and cuts to higher education funding, leaves the arts at serious risk.

In August 1987, under FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick, the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4 - 0 vote, in the Syracuse Peace Council decision, which was upheld by a panel of the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit in February 1989, though the Court stated in their decision that they made «that determination without reaching the constitutional issue.»

It says Mr Brown's disastrous decision to abolish the 10p starting rate of tax, which alienated many working class Labour supporters, stemmed from his desire to pander to Mr Murdoch.

The saying that «if voting changed anything they would abolish it» rings all too true today in Britain's highly centralised system of government, where so many decisions are made by those who were not elected and can not be removed.

April saw campaigning for the local elections rumble on, but the main event this month was the furore which erupted over the government's decision to abolish the 10p rate of income tax.

The Institute of Economic Affairs has welcomed a decision adopted by the Electoral commission to abolish the strong room during elections.

BEIJING — Some 200 senior Communist Party officials gathered behind closed doors in January to take up a momentous political decision: whether to abolish presidential term limits and enable Xi Jinping to lead China for a generation.

The borough president insisted that he did not have all the details on the five probes into Mr. de Blasio's political nonprofits, his funneling cash into Democratic State Senate campaigns in 2014, his administration's decision to lift a deed restriction for a well - connected developer, on his acceptance of cash from potential straw donors in 2013 and into his relationship with animal rights groups dedicating to abolishing horse - driven carriages in Central Park.

In 1989, a decision by the United States Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate was unconstitutional, in that it violated the principle of «one man, one vote», and a rewriting of the city charter called for the city council presidency to be abolished and the office of public advocate to be created as the presiding officer of the council and first in line of succession to the mayor.

UK's decision to force overseas territories to abolish corporate secrecy is big step in effort to end money laundering

This surge, the so - called double cohort, is an expected consequence of the government's recent decision to abolish grade 13.

Student Unrest Sweeps Across Spain The Spanish government?s decision to abolish a programme to support Ph.D. students from developing countries led to demonstrations in Barcelona and Madrid.

Many researchers have also been upset by NIH Director Francis Collins's decision to create NCATS in part by abolishing another component of NIH, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR).

The school consulted with students, teachers and parents, explored research (including the work of Alfie Kohn and John Hattie), read articles by Joe Bower on abolishing homework, and looked at policies in other jurisdictions — all of which informed the decision to stop setting formal homework.

[20] A local school board that had once been abolished and a state agency created in recent years are now increasingly meddling in the efforts of DC school leadership to make swift, effective decisions governing schools.

The bill would provide extra support for charter school expansion, including providing new incentives for raising or abolishing charter school caps, and for taking decisions for authorizing new charter schools away from local school boards — despite substantial research showing that charter schools overall are no better than traditional neighborhood schools.

We have waited a long time for local control of Philly schools, and the decision to abolish the School Reform Commission was a great first step in that process.

Increasingly, state legislatures have been working to weaken or even abolish the practice of teacher tenure, including the requirement to use teacher evaluation data in the decision to grant tenure.

An assembly government spokesperson defended the decision to abolish league tables said young people's levels of attainment in Wales continued to rise «year on year».

The Conservatives say they would abolish these panels, but the Steer report says they are necessary to avoid schools having to justify decisions in the courts.

4 in a row — I heard something about teacher tenure — a facade — never existed — so I propose that CT be the first state to abolish teacher tenure and get rid of that nasty word forever — Instead teachers will agree to just due process where an arbitrator would decide their fate quickly and the arbitrators decision is binding — what say??? No more tenure — only state to agree to this — jump on this bandwagon — T

In protest of the decision to abolish free tuition, students occupied Bharucha's office for 65 days last summer.

But technocracy abolishes competing accounts of the world: it says that hoi - polloi is not competent, either to form a view of the world, or to make decisions about their own lives or public matters; and as the climate debate shows, unofficial interpretations of The Science are waved away as so much «motivated reasoning» and the such like.

«Now he's giving up even the pretence of leading the battle against climate change, by abolishing the post of his personal climate change envoy only 18 months after creating it — a decision that the government didn't even announce, in the hope that no one would notice.»

Concern about the preferential treatment given to the nuclear industry by successive governments is likely to be heightened by the decision last month to abolish the parallel Renewables Energy Board, which met every quarter at the department and once a year outside, as part of spending cuts.

The «catastrophic» aspect of this case, in my view, relates to the Court's decision to abolish the former Wallace principle, which allowed the court to extend the period of reasonable notice, based on the manner of dismissal.

The legal charity says that while it does not object in principle to the decision to abolish the recoverability of success fees in conditional fee agreements, this must be accompanied by the safeguard of costs protection, or qualified one way costs shifting, for claimants who are not wealthy.

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.

This is a holding measure with current EU - derived rights being cut and pasted into domestic law until a decision is made whether to retain, amend or abolish them.

In the first decades after the adoption of the Constitution, this was changed by judicial decision, statute or constitution in most States, but nowhere was there any suggestion that the crime of libel be abolished.

The minority decision stated that the approach of the majority effectively abolished a cause of action against anonymous online defamation.

The Howard League for Penal Reform, which campaigned successfully against the criminal courts charge, released this statement welcoming the decision to abolish it.

This week, Lord Neuberger implied that even if the Human Rights Act were to be abolished, the court would continue to uphold human rights, perhaps foreshadowing the Supreme Court's decision in Osborn.

However, we wish to point out that Québec employers should not take this decision to mean that they are precluded from imposing changes to working conditions during a strike, such as abolishing positions, although such right is not unfettered under the law.

Acted for the Claimants / Appellants in their challenge under the Public Contracts Regulations to the Government's decision to abolish the competitive market for childcare voucher services in the UK and award a monopoly contract, license, or exclusive right to National Savings & Investments / Atos.

The claimants — both of which were liable to be abolished if the proposals are implemented — contended that the decisions taken by the secretary of state should be quashed.

The registration of non-traditional categories of marks such as sound, multimedia, motion, hologram and position marks has now been expressly facilitated by the decision to abolish the requirement for «graphical representation» and instead to replace it with a requirement that the mark's representation must simply be «clear, precise, self - contained, easily accessible, intelligible, durable and objective».