Sentences with phrase «government enforces laws»

«yet have no qualms about using the barrel of a gun (which is after all how government enforces laws) to enact your view of what is correct for society.»

The prime opportunity, he said, lies in a return to a strict ban and greater commitment by the international community to help governments enforce laws on the ground in Africa and along the smuggling routes from there to markets in Asia.

Not exact matches

An NDP government would establish a comprehensive upstream cap - and trade system to meet our international commitments to fight climate change and rigorously enforce environmental laws here in Canada.

The same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.

The go - to resource for the legal requirements in your particular industry or state is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the arm of the federal government that enforces health and safety laws.

Also on Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing that 71 % of American voters — including 55 % of Republican voters — say they oppose the government enforcing federal laws banning marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug for either medical or recreational purposes.

Regulations are among the the stocks - in - trade of government — they are the tools through which the Environmental Protection Agency implements anti-pollution laws, the Interior Department enforces land - use provisions and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau restricts payday lenders.

I further see no reason why corporations shouldn't willingly contribute to government finances that help set fiscal and corporate laws and enforce them.

And on July 30, 2010, the Obama Administration promised to review and possibly challenge Guatemala's labor practices if that country did not show the U.S. government that it is both effectively enforcing its labor laws and complying with the agreement.

Our children are packed into schools like sardines, surgeries are cancelled for lack of beds, seniors die from mistreatment, labour unions and universities are gutted and our health and environment are degraded because the government won't enforce the law.

If the municipalities will not enforce the provincially - imposed laws, then the provincial government should create an organization that will.

If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and / or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

The Australian government also put through a bunch of anti-competitive laws in the hope of removing some of the market competitors but regardless of that the project failing anyway and the government is having difficulty fully enforcing such anti-competitive laws in practice.

Nearly three - quarters of voters said they disapprove of the government enforcing federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized it either medically or recreationally.

Unofficially, however, unauthorized migrants found employers willing to turn a blind eye to their employees» immigration status and a government lacking the resources and the will to rigorously enforce immigration labor laws.

It is therefore NOT the government's place to decide and by enacting laws, enforce their views on everyone else.

It recognizes that strong government institutions are essential for making and enforcing laws to protect human dignity.

On May 16, 2012, in response to a lawsuit filed by journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf and others, [16] United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled the indefinite detention section of the law (1021) likely violates the 1st and 5th Amendments and issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US government from enforcing it.

The fate of the civil rights movement, its leaders recognized, lay in its ability to convince politicians and administrators in the federal government that it was in their interest to enforce the law and defend the Constitution in the South in the face of the massive resistance by politically potent segregationists.

The mere existence of government means that laws are enforced «with the barrel of a gun».

In case you missed it, our Laws expressly forbid the use of the American Military to enforce U.S. civilian law, whether Federal, State or local, yet the Government does it with impunity at will.

Reuters: Saudi sharia judges decry «Westernizing stench» of king's legal reforms Saudi judges who enforce sharia (Islamic law) have condemned what they see as «the stench of Western ideas» in sweeping legal reforms pushed by King Abdullah, underscoring friction between government modernizers and religious hardliners.

Democratic capitalism is characterized by a functioning, representative government — that is, it is governed by individuals who are chosen by the populace in free and fair elections and who are then able to freely legislate and enforce such laws and rules as they deem proper.

The government will work with Evangelical churches and leaders to define and enforce laws of morality based upon God's clear biblical mandate.

He specifically had a symbol of religion built and put in a place of honor at a government facility, and the context of it being a list of laws from religious doctrine at a place where the law is created, upheld and enforced, certainly made the matter crystal clear.

Even in Arab countries where shari'a (Islamic law) is not enforced by the government, Islam's influence prevents freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, and of conscience.

Of course, government was needed to provide law and order, to enforce contracts, and to require honesty on the part of the market actors.

In addition, citizens must be taught how to secure strong, well - staffed, and amply financed government agencies which are dedicated to the health of the people and serve them through a well - enforced body of pure food laws, a well - organized inspection and grading system, and a continuing broad program of research in nutrition and in food production and processing.

And we must be wary about trying to get our government to enforce Biblical guidelines on all the people in a country, for if it can be done with «Christian» laws, it can also be done at a later time with «Muslim» laws, or «Mormon» laws, or whatever religion is in «power» at the time.

Christians often decry those cultures where the government tries to enforce Muslim sharia law on the citizens, but from the perspective of many in our own culture, that is very similar to what Christians are trying to do when we try to enforce Christian law on non-Christians.

Of course, there are just enough government employees left to enforce the law that nobody can do anything productive until Congress gets its act together (could be a while.

The government can enforce honesty and self - discipline in some respects, but laws can not replace internal commitments and character.

Insurance is permissible «in cases when the [U.S.] law enforces it and one can not... avoid it,» and» this will curl some hair, betcha» «if it is from the government (my emphasis) and is not implemented to make a profit but to assist employees and look after their affairs,» all insurance can be lawful.

You can not create laws which are enforced by the government to take money from the rich and give it to the poor.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

Yes, how (current) Republicans can reconcile conservative government with laws enforcing conservative social values is beyond me.

Discriminatory laws enforcing racial segregation have been declared unconstitutional and abolished, while the dream of Martin Luther King (that every individual be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin) has been integrated into the American dream itself in a way that only Lincoln's Gettysburg image (a government of, by, and for the people) had been previously.

The national government establishes and enforces laws.

the Colorado state government which still does not have strict and enforced gun ownership laws.

Send a quick message to the Egyptian Minister for Agriculture (via the Egyptian Ambassador in Australia), urging the Egyptian government to pass and enforce laws protecting animals from cruelty.

The government can throw you in a cage for disobeying its «laws», laws that are enforced with threats of violence.

It is unlikely the Indonesian law will be enforced «due to the absence of implementing government regulations,» but it raises some interesting questions about women's right to choose breastfeeding.

• The establishment of an adequately resourced Government body to test products independent of industry, to monitor and enforce of the regulations, as well as to issue penalties when companies break the law;

The law says all government offices must provide a nursery so working mothers can breastfeed, an existing regulation that has never been enforced.

The federal government could, however, decide to resume enforcing these laws any time it wanted to and the states would have little - to - no recourse to stop it from doing so, other than attempting to argue in court that federal drug laws aren't authorized under the Constitution in the first place.

«The problem is, [the government is] happy to pass tough laws in order to get a good headline only to simply not enforce them - allowing the situation to deteriorate at great risk to the public,» Mr Davis said.

The Conservatives, however, have accused the government of being too weak in enforcing alcohol laws.

So it is a matter of a poorly written law that makes «everybody» guilty but allows the government to pick when to enforce it.

When a citizen of a state wants to sue the government of a state, instead of suing the state, they sue the individual responsible for enforcing the law.

This has historically been interpreted by the courts to not allow the federal government to obligate local government to enforce federal laws and regulations.