Sentences with phrase «fundamental policy of the state»

It is considered a fundamental policy of the State of California that agreements in restraint of competition are to that extent void.

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Eventually, economic fundamentals will reassert themselves: high corporate profits, positive industrial growth, lower unemployment and improved consumer sentiment in the United States; lower inflation and a transition to easier, expansionary money policies in Brazil, Australia, India and most significant of all, China, the world's second - largest economy.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

He supported the Freedom of Choice Act that would declare it a fundamental policy of the United States that a woman has a right to get an abortion.

The Consultation for Promoting British Values in School is a hastily thrown together set of amendments to the Independent School Standards (2013) which ensured all independent schools» activities and teaching be informed by the 2010 Equalities Act.The consultation proposes strengthening the Independent School Standards regulations and extending these to all schools (state and independent), emphasising that a school's «written policy, plans and schemes of work -LSB-... must] not undermine the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.»

Cuomo has chosen the opposite tack and appears to be following his own policy of making it as difficult as possible for the press to get at the truth and transmit it to the public, even with something as fundamental as the state budget.

Thus, it is crucial to have citizens / people living in a country who are able to have a say in the state's affairs, especially about things affecting their lives directly, such as taxation, health - care, education, housing policies and the fundamental of all — who should be the country's leader.

In the U.S. the states are the fundamental building blocks of the federal system and so, since senators represent states at the national level, they are pivotal in creating policy.

The ACLU's «Establishing A New Normal» report ends with the grim conclusion that «if the Obama administration does not affect a fundamental break with Bush administration policies,» it will «create a lasting legal architecture in support of those policies, and then it will have ratified rather than rejected the dangerous notion that America is in a permanent state of emergency and that core liberties must be surrendered forever.»

As Pat McFadden states at the start of the consultation document, «now, in opposition, the time is right to have a fundamental review of our policy making process».

«The task force report urges a fundamental reset of education policy in New York State,» wrote UFT President Michael Mulgrew in an email to members.

The book challenges the notion that socio - economic rights are not legally enforceable human rights, and sets out the trends in the justiciability of the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy enshrined in Chapter II of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).

CEE - Trust's explicit focus on cities is noteworthy; rather than focusing on state or federal policy — or even the district's activities — it seeks to generate and support fundamental reform via an array of metropolitan leaders and a cross-sector approach.

Instead, they demand a fundamental overhaul of federal, state and district policies.

Bill Cibes made a fundamental difference then and does so now when he tells ConnCAN and the other «corporate education reformers» that we will not back down in our commitment and dedication to protect what is right about public education while we seek to develop and implement policies that make a real, honest and positive impact on the quality of education in our state.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

National Council on Teacher Quality: NCTQ is a nonpartisan research and policy group working to achieve fundamental changes in the policy and practices of teacher preparation programs, school districts, state governments, and teachers unions.

But of course, parents have the fundamental right to protect their children and there is absolutely no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school districts to punish children whose parents refuse to allow their children to be abused by this Common Core testing system.

Rand Education, however, recently waded into years of research to identify and analyze the key issues and answer two fundamental questions: How has testing influenced instructional practice, and what conditions and policies have will make the impact of new assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards more positive for teachers and students?

Additionally, education leaders should be concerned about the troubling widening of the rich / poor achievement gap — an outcome at odds with stated policy goals and the fundamental principle of equal opportunity.

«Activision has refused to honor the terms of its agreements and is intentionally flouting the fundamental public policy of this State (California) that employers must pay their employees what they have rightfully earned.

The next president will play a pivotal role in shaping United States» climate policies, making decisions fundamental to both the future of our nation and life on this planet.

The next president will play a pivotal in shaping United States» climate policies, making decisions fundamental to both the future of our nation and life on this planet.

They highlight fundamental and persistent challenges in the United States to the use of energy efficiency as a potent tool for efforts to mitigate climate change, strengthen national energy security, and realize the economic benefits of a comprehensive, forward - thinking energy policy.

[4] Quite often, the challenged measures relate to policy areas where member states enjoy wide discretion (if not exclusive competence), which begs the question of whether the measures relate to a «field covered by EU law» if the measures only have to comply with the fundamental freedoms and the principle of non-discrimination and have no direct connection to the requirements of specific EU acts (such as directives and regulations).

John Morijn examines how Member States» policy practice after accession may «kiss awake the sleeping beauty» of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, namely by «organising external judicial review of simultaneously formally EU internalised standards» (p. 123).

The AGs arguments on both issues, first on the distinction between economic and monetary policy and second on the prohibition of monetary financing, lead us to a much more fundamental question: Given the development of the monetary union, the lessons from the banking crisis and the current economic situation in several Member States, can one really maintain the separation between monetary and economic policy — that was artificial from the beginning — and the prohibition of monetary financing (as well as the prohibition of bailouts) in this form?

A German state has declared that Facebook's policy requiring that a user identify himself by his real name violates that state's law allowing the use of pseudonyms and contravenes the fundamental right to freedom of expression on the Internet (see here for an Associated Press article).

No balancing exercise can, therefore, be carried out between the third applicant's concrete right to conscientious objection, which is one of the most fundamental rights inherent in the human person — a right which is not given by the Convention but is recognised and protected by it — and a legitimate State or public authority policy which seeks to protect rights in the abstract.

There is a more than plausible case to make that this distinction between the case law based justifications and Treaty derogations is artificial and out of line with the importance the Treaties attach to other public policy goals, notably environmental protection, protection of fundamental rights and consumer protection (although the Member States have never amended 36 TFEU in subsequent Treaty amendments).

In a 27 - page opinion (PDF, English), the president of the commission, Jacques Frémont, states that he believes (along with numerous others) that several proposals in the government's policy paper contravene Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and infringe upon established fundamental rights and freedoms.

She is a co-author of the article, «Revising Privacy Policies on the Internet,» which was published in The State Bar News of the New York State Bar Association (2001) and has spoken at a variety of CLE programs on brand licensing, legal trends in fashion, emerging copyright issues and the fundamentals of privacy and data security in an electronic world.

The Court of Appeal differentiated between an incidental breach of the policy («imperfect compliance») versus a fundamental breach of the policy (a breach of a «condition precedent»), stating that if the driver's failure to drive with a valid license was a breach of a «condition precedent», she would not be entitled to «relief from forfeiture» under section 98.

Interestingly, the Advocate General ranged much more broadly in reaching the same conclusion, stating that these limitations on the review of international arbitral awards were «contrary to the principle of effectiveness of EU law», «(n) o system can accept infringements of its most fundamental rules making up its public policy, irrespective of whether or not those infringements are flagrant or obvious» and «one or more parties to agreements which might be regarded as anticompetitive can not put these agreements beyond the reach of review under Articles 101 TFEU and 102 TFEU by resorting to arbitration» (AG Op § § 58, 67 and 72).

d) the judgment was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure; e) recognition or enforcement would be manifestly incompatible with the public policy of the requested State, including situations where the specific proceedings leading to the judgment were incompatible with fundamental principles of procedural fairness of that State; f) the judgment is inconsistent with a judgment given in the requested State in a dispute between the same parties; or g) the judgment is inconsistent with an earlier judgment given in another State between the same parties on the same cause of action, provided that the earlier judgment fulfils the conditions necessary for its recognition in the requested State.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

To this end, AAP endorses a developing leadership role for the entire pediatric community — one that mobilizes the scientific expertise of both basic and clinical researchers, the family - centered care of the pediatric medical home, and the public influence of AAP and its state chapters — to catalyze fundamental change in early childhood policy and services.

In light of the recent executive order in the United States regarding immigration policy, AAMFT reiterates its global commitment to inclusivity, diversity, and a fundamental belief in the power of relationships upon which our passionate profession is built.

Following his visit to Australia in August 2009, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, recommended that the «Commonwealth and state governments should review all legislation, policies, and programmes that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, in light of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples».