Sentences with phrase «enforcing standards of»

In terms of the regulation of the profession, however, perhaps the most interesting controversy was with respect to the degree to which law societies are enforcing standards of civility among their members.

Last fall, Representative Paul Gosar (R - AZ) complained that, in enforcing the standards of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has «overreached» its authority.

A survey of all 50 states shows that most fall behind when enforcing standards of care.

One way of enforcing standards of excellence is through standardized testing, linked to high stakes - such as holding students back until they pass the tests or delaying their graduation.

Regulation of naturopathic doctors protects the public by setting and enforcing standards of education, competency and patient care.

One example of trying to enforce standards of reliability or honesty, and not just having an excuse to crush any critical or dissenting opinions is Canada's Radio Act.

It is equally important that schools enforce standards of educational excellence at every grade level.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

His proposed code would have bloggers enforce standards of civility on their blogs, ban anonymous comments and attempt to resolve conflicts privately.

It held that health and safety legislation is to establish and enforce standards of health and safety in the workplace, whereas criminal negligence provides «additional deterrence for morally blameworthy conduct.»

Honeywell, Inc. (FOB Klaus, Iraq) 3/2008 — 1/2010 MRAP PBUSE Operator • Demonstrate working knowledge of the PBUSE system • Conduct formal accountability of all MRAP equipment and associated GFE • Generate DA 3161 (lateral transfers) from the PBUSE system • File all supporting documentation (IAW AR 25 -400-2) • Generate and post all incoming transfers documents within 24 hour time period • Prepare weekly and monthly reports of equipment issued to higher headquarters • Review all documents for accuracy prior to posting to the MRAP hand receipts • Enforce standard of accountability and visibility of all equipment issued for the site

We license the more than 24,000 individuals and brokerages engaged in real estate sales, rental property and strata management, we enforce standards of conduct, we investigate complaints from the public against licensees, and we impose disciplinary sanctions under the Real Estate Services Act.

To work in concert with the National Association of REALTORS ® and the Local Boards to provide quality service to REALTOR ® members, to enhance the ability of REALTORS ® to conduct business successfully, to promote and enforce the standards of the Real Estate profession, to strengthen the REALTOR ® image, and to protect through collective action, the individual's right to own, transfer and utilize real property.

Not exact matches

«The problem of defining and implementing a right to health is threefold,» says Sandhu: «indeterminacy (how to characterize it), justiciability (how to enforce it), and progressive realization (how to raise the standard over time).»

On Tuesday, Facebook announced a new set of community standards and a revamped appeals process, which Zuckerberg called a «first step in this direction is creating full transparency about our current rules and how we enforce them.»

That's why it is imperative to enforce strict standards for not only the security posture of the application holding the key, but the encryption protecting the key itself.

Using employees instead of contractors also makes it easier to enforce customer service standards.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

The set of circumstances in which outsiders should be reluctant to judge the behaviour of a powerful occupational group is pretty strictly limited to circumstances in which the members of that group do a good job of monitoring their own behaviour and enforcing standards that serve the public well.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

He said News Corp. had set up an independent Management & Standards Committee to establish and enforce clear standards of operation.

«We've always had a set of community standards that the public can see,» Facebook Vice President Monika Bickert told NPR's Steve Inskeep, «but now we're actually explaining how we define those terms for our review teams and how we enforce those policies.»

However, the SEC's proposal contains an even more fundamental flaw: Even if brokers were held to a fiduciary standard of conduct, the ambiguous interpretation of the fiduciary «Duty of Care» makes any regulation difficult to enforce and confusing for all parties.

When both rules are fully enforced, Bernstein Research estimates that 15 % of coal - fired power plants will be forced to close — unable to meet new safety standards — or will require substantial new investment to remain viable.

I think this tells us several things: first, the left has to argue for robust use of the national spending power to enforce national standards without provincial opt - outs, such as those Thomas Mulroney — * ahem Mulcair — promotes for Quebec and other provinces.

Fourth, the NDP should declare that the best way to strengthen the absolute power of the Government of Quebec to serve its citizenry is to rebuild and increase the relative central power of the Government of Canada to enforce national standards.

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

I don't think I like the idea of the govt enforcing some kind of naming standard.

«It just seems to me that enforcing that standard involves the state very heavily in the censorship and the approval or disapproval of prayers,» he said.

This acts to enforce the code and, more than incidentally, a high standard of personal honesty as well.»

The point of the law is to make it so that it's not about an employer's choice anymore, it's about setting a minimum standard of care and enforcing it so that ALL US Citizens recieve the same benefits.

The goal of Will H. Hays, the administrator (and as it happened a Presbyterian elder), was to enforce such moral standards as would render moot any criticism from outside Hollywood.

This doesn't mean that within church - based schools rigid standards of orthodoxy must be enforced on all.

So the result is that Jesus, the focal point of a particularistic confession, enforces a standard that is universal, reaching beyond the very confessional tradition that proclaims him to be God's eschatological agent.

Would that the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education had held Professor Conn's essay up to the rigorous standards of rationality and attention to evidence that he says he wishes to enforce against the religious colleges and universities he regards as benighted.

I believe that Israel should and must exist, but I can not support the policies of the Israeli government that enforce separate standards of living for Arab Israelis, much less the continual deprivation of civil rights andconfiscation of Palestinian lands in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).

Minimum standards of age, health, and skill for all drivers must be set and enforced.

While professional standards must be set and enforced largely by the profession itself, educated laymen can be of great assistance in keeping the quality of practice high.

The self - government of science has its own institutional structures which embody its standards and enforce its discipline.

This has enforced high standards of scholarly rigor, and this has had its advantages.

By the late 1960s, the MPAA had switched from enforcing a code of standards to merely classifying films by their content.

However important the work of these bodies is, their powers to enforce human rights standards are very limited.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

When, therefore, we have recognized that lawlessness is a rampant peril, we must also see close alongside it the multitudes of people who are merely law - abiding, who accept the dead level of general mediocrity as standard, who are no better than the enforced average, and who in consequence are living alike for themselves and for the social welfare utterly unsatisfactory lives.

A blue law is a type of law designed to enforce religious standards, particularly the observance of a day of worship or rest.

This also allows RPE to maintain consistency by enforcing the same quality standards at all of its facilities.

Maple Lodge Farms enforces stringent sanitation, food quality control and safety management standards in all of its facilities.

CSPI supports the recently passed federal law for mandatory disclosure of GMOs, and believes there should be a national standard for non-GMO labeling enforced by the USDA and not a consensus - based standard such as the Non-GMO Project Verified seal seen on many labels.

The omnibus spending bill just passed in the House directs the FDA to strengthen and enforce dairy standards of identity in a bid to crack down on plant - based «imitators,» claim milk producers.