Sentences with phrase «drafting language for»

The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012 and the Poznan meeting will work on drafting language for Kyoto2.0.
Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was briefed this morning on the draft language for the chapter amendment's religious exemptions this morning, saying the measure described to him dealt with religious organizations like Catholic Charities.
Here's a slightly more impassioned pitch from the Tenth Amendment Center, complete with draft language for the Amendment - repealing Amendment.

Not exact matches

The language of mainstream contract drafting is dysfunctional, so anyone using document assembly for contract drafting faces a serious garbage - in, garbage - out problem.
Too often it reads like a translation committee draft from midway through the process that turned the Authorized version into the Revised Standard, and he makes some classically undergraduate kinds of errors with the language, rendering, for instance, the Gadarene swine as «the swine of Gadarene»» which is, as Fr.
This year we were able to get various agencies and DOB / Governor and many others to agree on language drafted by your firm — a huge accomplishment for all providers in the behavioral and substance abuse arena.
Legislative language has been circulating privately for several weeks; on Tuesday, POLITICO New York published some drafts of the ride - hailing bill.
As Lord Pannick said, it would have been better if the concession «be drafted in more generous language», but the principle was established: «It will be for the judges to decide how and when that test should apply.»
Republican delegates gathering in Cleveland ahead of the party's nominating convention approved a draft of language for the formal GOP platform that proposes a wall that would cover «the entirety of the southern border and must be sufficient to stop both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.»
Another substantial piece of evidence Mr. Melo offered was the drafts of the cooperation agreement that passed between the physician's attorney and the prosecution, in which Mr. Taub testified against Mr. Silver, but in which his lawyer struck out language stating that the doctor directed patients to Weitz & Luxenburg «in exchange for» funding and «at Silver's request.»
The authors would like to thank Hartwig Siebner for his valuable advice concerning the fMRI design, Wolfgang Miltner for his valuable comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript, Anne Ohrt, Joachim Laudien and Johann Kuhtz - Buschbeck for their help during sweat collection, Bernfried Sojka for his help in constructing the olfactometer, Jan Born for the analysis of the endocrine parameters, and Rachael Cole and Sabine Schlösser for their help in language editing.
Draft Day is rated PG - 13 by the MPAA on appeal for brief strong language and sexual references.
Republicans drafted a party platform for adoption at their national convention in New York City this week that reflects in language and spirit the stamp that George W. Bush first placed on the GOP's education positions four years ago.
The two national teachers» unions mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign this week to rewrite language linking teacher bonuses to student test scores and other incentive - pay provisions contained in a draft bill for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act.
Although he only completed his freshman year at the University of California Berkeley before declaring for the draft, Brown stood out among draft prospects because of his intellectual pursuits, which included playing chess, learning foreign languages, and taking a graduate - level course while in his first year.
The draft language was prepared for negotiated rulemaking discussions on supplement not supplant (the second round concluded without consensus Friday, April 8).
One of them, Shavar Jeffries, president of the Democrats for Education Reform, an influential political action committee supported heavily by hedge fund managers favoring charter schools, merit - pay tied to test scores and related reforms, issued a statement that went so far as to say that the original draft on education was «progressive and balanced» but that the new language «threatens to roll back» President Obama's education legacy.
While the regulations are not yet open for public comment through the Federal Register, the draft language is now available on the Department of Education's web site.
Compose, draft, and publish for peer review a list of hardware and software deemed necessary for the effective preparation of English language arts teachers.
NYSUT helped legislators draft language that allows state tests to count for 20 percent of regulations, and another 20 percent should center on «other; locally selected measures of student achievement... and are developed locally in a manner consistent with procedures negotiated pursuant to the requirements of article fourteen of the civil service law.»
Meanwhile, the first round of feedback on the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium's draft content specifications (PDF) for English language arts is due today.
Melton said the House has drafted language that details criteria for teacher evaluations, with student test scores counting for 50 percent of the reviews.
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is asking for input on its draft content frameworks for English language arts and math by this Wednesday, August 31.
For example, FTA sent one attorney to a general writing course and another to a regulatory drafting class, both of which covered the use of plain language.
They ask us to both review draft ordinances and suggest appropriate language for those drafts.
The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.
The final draft posted for discussion has more nuanced language, in line with what those arguing for more near - term climate and coastal risk have already articulated.
He said the group, which has projects from Israel to Zimbabwe to Pittsburgh, was there to try to convince delegates to the talks to include language in any draft agreement that calls for mediators to be applied.
The matrix also provides rationale for CCSA's recommendations, and sample language to aid in drafting policies, drawing on the depth of experience of CCSA staff, member companies and non-profit partners in developing such programs.
But when The Center for Investigative Reporting reviewed the original and subsequent drafts, they discovered that any language tying human activity to climate change was removed.
According to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other oil industry groups have been directing state legislators to make public and legislative statements in favor of the pipeline project, and have provided legislators with draft legislation, language for op - eds and testimony to be presented as their own.
Current language in the draft climate agreement supports a «100 percent phaseout of fossil fuels by 2050,» something environmental groups have promoted for years.
These potential new incentives come in the form of draft federal regulatory language, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to finalize as part of the entire rulemaking process for the Clean Power Plan (CPP).
Noteworthy, the G77 got language reinserted into the COP21 draft in Bonn last week that again calls for an international «climate justice tribunal» with apparent enforcement powers over developed but not developing countries.
On Friday, the UK Information Commissioner ruled against my request for (1) the attachments to the Wahl - Briffa email that contained Wahl's surreptitious changes to the AR4 Report from the language sent to reviewers to language much more favorable to Mann and Wahl; (2) Wahl and Ammann (2004, submitted), cited in the AR4 First Draft, the -LSB-...]
«Net - zero» language has now appeared as an optional paragraph in early drafting text for the anticipated global climate deal currently under negotiation.
It loses language from an earlier draft that called for cutting global emissions in half by 2050, and says nothing about a peak year by which greenhouse gases should begin to decline.
For this reason, it's incredibly important to draft a social media policy for your company specifically outlining topics to avoid when engaged in social media on behalf of your business, such as politically sensitive issues, defamatory comments (including libel or slander), or other offensive or discriminatory languaFor this reason, it's incredibly important to draft a social media policy for your company specifically outlining topics to avoid when engaged in social media on behalf of your business, such as politically sensitive issues, defamatory comments (including libel or slander), or other offensive or discriminatory languafor your company specifically outlining topics to avoid when engaged in social media on behalf of your business, such as politically sensitive issues, defamatory comments (including libel or slander), or other offensive or discriminatory language.
With that information in hand, IP practitioners can use semantic analytics engines optimized for claims language to help patent applicants draft claims that are more likely to withstand an examiner's scrutiny.
For drafting discussions that are relevant to everyone collaborating, the «Comments» feature is often your first choice to propose changes or highlight problem language.
The new Bloomberg BNA product includes Draft Analyzer, a patented technology that helps attorneys find precedents, provides language for agreements and compare documents; Deal Analytics, which enables attorneys to search Bloomberg LP data for public and private mergers and acquisitions, filtering them by size, industry, advisers, fees and other criteria; and In Practice, a set of checklists, timelines, sample forms and clauses to guide attorneys through the transaction process.
A particularly meticulous nature and love of language is of assistance when involved in, for example, the drafting of an IP right or non-contentious transactional work, where it is necessary to map out the possible future consequences of one's choice of words.
The lawyers dutifully drafted new TOS language that allows for all kinds of entrepreneurial «innovation» (in other words, allowing any use the owners can think up).
«Given some of the decisions that have come out of the Court of Appeal which have required pretty high standards for employers in terms of drafting employment agreement language, it was encouraging to see the court unanimously uphold the language that the parties negotiated in this case,» says Susan Crawford, of Crawford Chondon & Partners LLP who represented Money Mart in Kielb v. National Money Mart Company.
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision is a good one for employers when it comes to drafting employment agreement language, says a lawyer involved in the case.
A Broward County divorce attorney from my firm could then draft the divorce agreement for you and ensure that the proper language is used on the legal forms.
If a licensee knows it needs to use a third - party contractor from the beginning, such rights should be carefully and proactively drafted into the standard boilerplate along with language that clarifies the extent to which the licensee is responsible for the use of the vendors» software by such third parties.
More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, through his blog, Adams on Contract Drafting, his book, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause of what he prefers to call drafting in «standard English» (rather than «plain language» drafting).
In particular, when drafting, plain language should be adopted, spelling out any restriction in certain terms, failing which the restriction will not be fit for purpose, will have no effect, and a professional negligence claim may well follow.
While the ruling in Wood is not a clear «win» for employers, it is helpful in that Ontario employers now have much needed guidance on the language necessary to draft enforceable termination clauses.
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