Sentences with phrase «equal claims on»

Wilderness and free enterprise have equal claims on the American psyche.

Tinder's notion of Christian egalitarianism is based upon a Cartesian / Lutheran notion of the «exalted individual,» wherein «all individuals without exception — the most base, the most destructive, the most repellent — have equal claims on our respect,» rather than on a more ancient notion of dignified personhood, in which individuality is only the beginning of a complete view of man.

And if you have an unshakable belief that even severely handicapped children have an equal claim on our time and money, then you won't like the utilitarian's favoring of healthy, conscious, rational persons.

The long anomalous survival of these now obsolete offences may well have owed something to the reluctance of the rich and powerful to accept that the poor had an equal claim on access to the law.

Not exact matches

«It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims,» the judges wrote on Thursday.

The fundamental contradiction is that the law sees already - reduced claims, the Exchange Bonds, as on equal footing with never - reduced claims, the «Holdout Bonds.»

Kevin Brady, a Republican congressman from Texas and the lead sponsor of the Republican tax bill, claimed that the endowment tax «ensures that private endowments are placed on equal footing with private foundations.»

(Sec. 13403) This section allows employers to claim a general business credit equal to 12.5 % of wages paid to employees during any period in which such employees are on family and medical leave if the rate of payment under the program is 50 % of the wages normally paid to an employee.

In addition, it noted what would be fairly boilerplate severance terms: «If the Company terminates Mr. Ryan's employment without cause on or after a change in control or he resigns for good reason due to a change in control, subject to his execution and non-revocation of a release of claims, the Company will pay him, in addition to his previously - accrued compensation, severance equal to the following: (i) in the case of a change in control of Tribune Publishing or the Company, 12 months of his base salary and one year of his annual targeted bonus amount.»

Common equity classes are considered to be a call option with a claim on equity value at an exercise price equal to the aggregate liquidation preferences for the preferred equity classes.

If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

Nebraska Personal Exemption Credit — equal to $ 132 per exemption claimed on tax return (non-refundable)

As the reforms gather steam, a particular point of interest for the housing market is the impact of the proposed new legislation on the mortgage interest deduction (MID), which allows homeowners to claim a tax deduction equal to the amount of interest they paid on their home loan.

Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better work than humans who are dermatologists, insurance claims adjusters, lawyers, seismic testers in oil fields, sports journalists and financial reporters, crew members on guided - missile destroyers, hiring managers, psychological testers, retail salespeople, and border patrol agents.

The standard death benefit is equal to the contract value on the date of the claim and does not include any additional guarantees.

The standard death benefit is equal to contract value on the date of the claim and does not include any additional guarantees.

Technically, there's no income phase out if you're trying to claim the CDCTC, but the credit can only equal up to 35 % of your qualifying care expenses (depending on your AGI).

An individual who is physically or mentally incapable of self - care, lived with you for more than half of the year, and either: (i) is your dependent; or (ii) could have been your dependent except that he or she has gross income that equals or exceeds the exemption amount, or files a joint return, or you (or your spouse, if filing jointly) could have been claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer's 2015 return.»

You can't make fantastic claims like that, with NO proof, then just move on as if it were an equal claim to natural laws.

Homosexual people will be accepted as equal, full human beings, who have a legitimate claim on every right that both church and society have to offer any of us.

«Full and free discourse» is, in other words, a summary expression of the internal conditions of discourse noted earlier: equal freedom of all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it, and uncompromised commitment on the part all participants to seek the truth.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

On the other hand, the very fact that they claim if not a monopoly of supreme values and motivating forces, yet a unique relation to them, makes it impossible for the churches to participate in promotion of social ends on a natural and equal human basiOn the other hand, the very fact that they claim if not a monopoly of supreme values and motivating forces, yet a unique relation to them, makes it impossible for the churches to participate in promotion of social ends on a natural and equal human basion a natural and equal human basis.

How can anyone who claims to be a defender of equal rights for all people regardless of gender or race, be opposed to a law which would make it illegal to discriminate against unborn babies based on their gender or race?

Richard Bernstein calls this approach pluralistic: not a «flabby» pluralism, where we simply accept a variety of perspectives, vocabularies, paradigms, and language games, each on an equal footing; nor a «fortress - like» pluralism, where disparate groups work out of isolated frameworks and there is no communication between them; but rather an «engaged pluralism» where we acknowledge our fallibility and try to be responsive to the claims of others.

You can not put violent acts of rage and vengeance that killed millions of people, including innocent children, infants and babes in the womb on one side of a balance and then claim that the loving God presented by Jesus makes the sides equal.

... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself.

First, transnational corporations are now claiming to be on an equal legal footing with governments.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

That is, claims for equal treatment for individuals may be held to depend on a doctrine of personal identity which is less fundamental than the doctrine of social inheritance underlying claims for the maximization of the total welfare.

Engaging in premarital sex is sometimes seen as equal to losing all worth as a human being, and yet we claim to base our faith on the Gospel of grace.

Claims competition must be on level playing field and that Coles and Woolworths have power to crush independents to the point they won't be able to compete; claims there is no «equal» playing Claims competition must be on level playing field and that Coles and Woolworths have power to crush independents to the point they won't be able to compete; claims there is no «equal» playing claims there is no «equal» playing field.

Clearly unsettled by the emergence of competition in the shape of fellow bidders BBHO, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting released a statement on Tuesday, claiming (among other assertions of equal ludicrousness) that their bid was by far the superior one because it was more Australian.

No one said Ospina is not good (although newspapers claim the jury is still out on this) but you can't seriously put and equal mark between Cech and Ospina.

We are on equal footing when it comes to banners, and if you want to claim that you are the better program (and by a healthy margin too) that is fine.

He claimed: «We must also take into account the fact that when I was in Arsenal, we did not fight on equal terms with Chelsea or Manchester United.

Christian Eriksen was credited with both goals - although Harry Kane also claimed the second - as we held off a spirited Stoke side to make it six wins on the trot and 14 matches unbeaten in the Premier League - equalling a Club best in the PL era.

After the women announced their intention to sue the state for retaliation and equal protection violations, Mr. David said he referred the retaliation claims to the Governor's Office of Employee Relations; the harassment claims, as well as the conflicting findings of the two previous investigations, went to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

(I know you like to challenge my account of Englishness - and of course there are many plural accounts and resonances in any large nation - but I can't see how or on what grounds you could possibly seek to deny me an equal claim to that identity, or to having a voice in the conversation about what we want to make of it, on which I expect I've been as engaged as just about anybody else).

It is false to claim that there is still a «debate» going on over the origins of the Giant's Causeway, because the creationist viewpoint has no scientific evidence to back it up, and it is completely wrong to portray it on an equal footing with the genuine scientific account.

On Sunday, Andrew Cuomo staked his claim to a new Democratic path, between confrontation and capitulation, left and right: progressive austerity, achieved through equal parts brute force and seduction, bringing business, labor, and politicians together to work it out semi-peacefully.

The suit also makes an equal protection claim on behalf of the private citizens, arguing they will be deprived of representation if prisoners are counted at their last home addresses and not in the prison cells where they currently reside.

Further muddying matters, some researchers claim that the disorder is simply an extreme variant on an existing disease, pointing to similar, if smaller - scale, outbreaks of «disappearing disease» among bees that struck in the 1930s and 1970s, with equal lack of explanation.

The grind is super fine, as claimed, the taste is on point with freshly ground pepper from a pepper mill, and the aroma is equal, as well.

While the authors should know better than to make such claims, it's very clear that the science - naive journalists who report on these studies have never learned that association does not equal causation.

You would imagine that any story which seeks to claim that the events of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall were all an elaborate means to bring us to this point would place an equal weight on each instalment and the events therein.

«Although, in theory, a single instance of sufficiently severe one - on - one peer harassment» could have the effect of denying students equal access to educational programs, the court found it «unlikely that Congress would have thought such behavior sufficient to rise to this level in light of the inevitability of student misconduct and the amount of litigation that would be invited by entertaining claims of official indifference to a single instance of one - on - one peer harassment.»

Most of the cases relying on these rights have been about school funding, with the claim that unequal funding violates provisions in state constitutions that guarantee a right to an adequate education or provisions that promise equal protection.

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

A second Nebraska school district has settled a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of high school girls who claimed they were denied equal opportunities to take part in sports.