Sentences with phrase «hands of the state»

A second familiar complaint is the heavy hand of state and federal regulations.

He believes in the «invisible hand of the market,» not the firm hand of the state.

We are trying to establish a consensus on a legal framework that adapts to evolving responses — such as targeted killing - to restrict the ever - expanding hand of the state.

She insisted that if Britain was to thrive again then the heavy hand of the state bureaucracy had to be lifted off the British people so that they could engage with one another as they saw fit and prosper.

The traditional ruler emerged from the venue of the meeting at about 4.50 pm into the waiting hands of State House correspondents.

I'm in the benevolent hands of the state.

The Lucy Chinen - curated Never cargo terminal has recently discovered the trembling hand of state secrets resounding oversold bounce child — running at LA's Smart Objects from July 12 to August 8 — lifted its oddball title from a Google - translated text generated from the «Android Swype predictive typing of an ant pathway» by participating artist Adriana Ramić.

Throughout the western world over the last 20 - 30 years in particular, we have witnessed the tightening hand of the state, which has become ever more bold in insisting where and how we live, who we can work for or employ, what we can say and think, whose car we can get into, whose home we can stay in, and what we're allowed to put into our mouths.

It's only when the heavy hand of the state intervenes you actually get real reductions in usage.

The smoother functioning of the state - run protocols for actual payments and price stability, as well as the heavy hand of state intervention, drives a decreasing interest in all cryptocurrencies and completely sidelines the Bitcoin and crypto phenomenon from a price speculation angle even as the technological promise of the blockchain gallops on.

Familiar excuses for tepid leadership include restrictive collective bargaining agreements, the heavy hand of state and federal regulations, and lack of money.

Trump called the monuments» designation an example of «egregious abuse of federal power,» which he would correct by putting control of the land back in the hands of the state, which is interested in the natural resources on the land.

President - elect Donald Trump offered qualified support for legalization while on the campaign trail, positing that medical marijuana «should happen» and that laws regarding recreational usage should be left in the hands of the states.

Opinion: The prospect of major bloodshed at the hands of the state looms large.

This puts power into the hands of the State, «which can compel people to commit sin, tolerate it, or allow it to take place through banal conformism» (p. 59).

But he did not envisage an economic system in which the hand of the state was totally absent.

These calves, too, are in the hands of the state, which uses them as a religious power to promote ultimately its own grandeur and the effectiveness of its policies.

With one of the primary responsibilities being to educate their children, some parents also believe that this is not something that can be left in the hands of the state.

Since the 1960s, control of New York City's subways has been in the hands of state lawmakers, many of whom are Republican senators who live upstate and rarely make it to NYC, and when they do, don't take underground public transit.

The legal priorities would be being considered truly equal, the freedom from torture or cruel treatment, whether at the hands of the state or not, and the ability to live both freely and safely.

Rep. Chris Gibson, touting new federal education legislation that, if passed, would put many policy decisions back in the hands of the state, urged Albany to roll back the Common Core learning standards, essentially calling out Cuomo.

Long on Thursday tied Gillibrand to President Obama's «evolution» on same - sex marriage, saying both want to take the issue out of the hands of the states (though Obama pointedly said it should be an issue left to the individual states).

As it turned out, Long's gamble in sticking by Lazio and holding his convention first in hopes of forcing the hand of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox paid off.

It is not a serious leap to think that weaponized AI technology will not remain solely in the hands of states.

The Senate staff memo — now in the hands of the state Inspector General's Office, which is probing the entire matter — provided a summary of the proposals of rival bidders, insiders said.

Finally, Mahoney writes, administration and enforcement of a new campaign finance regime should not remain in the hands of the State Board of Elections, which has been mired in partisanship and has proven itself to be an ineffective enforcement body.

But the law in the rest of New York state puts those regulations in the hands of the state DMV, which will not require drivers to be fingerprinted.

Amnesty International UK's campaigns director Tim Hancock said: «When someone has lost their life at the hands of the state, it's essential - and required by international law - that an independent and impartial inquiry finds out how and why it happened.

A bill that would protect dedicated transit funds from being stolen by Albany failed to pass the legislature this year, leaving riders upstate and downstate at continued risk of further service cuts at the hands of the state budget process.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

Instead, the decision is largely in the hands of the State Department and the national nonprofit groups that the US government contracts with to distribute refugees nationwide.

At the same time, the embattled governor acknowledged his fate rests in the hands of the state legislature, which by many accounts is set to begin the impeachment process when it re-convenes in January, pending the outcome of a state ethics panel investigation into Sanford's travel expenses.

The strategy came on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would have put abortion rights in the hands of state legislators.

He was particularly critical of what he called a «three - men - in - a-room» system of government that put too much control in the hands of the state's governor, Assembly speaker and Senate president.

Former city Comptroller John Liu's political aspirations took a big hit last week after he accepted defeat at the hands of state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside).

«We need to shift some functions / responsibilities from the national government to place more of it in the hands of the States.

The bill, originally introduced by Governor David Paterson, is now in the hands of the State Senate, where its passage is in doubt.

Ms. James, a Brooklyn Democrat, laid out an aggressive agenda to curtail the powers of landlords, including an end to vacancy decontrol for units in the rent control system, a ban on property owners from increasing rents on vacant units, and a repeal of the Urstadt Law that puts the city's rent laws in the hands of the State Legislature.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The issue of gay marriage in New York was in the hands of the State Senate's Republicans Thursday who were divided over whether to bring the controversial measure to a vote.

Who snatched the microphone from the hands of a state governor at a public function?

Buffalo Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash said the receivership plan for five persistently failing schools is back in the hands of the State Education Commissioner.

Leave, say, RBS, the Royal Mail, Network Rail, the BBC, British Waterways, the Tote, the Forestry Commission - and a mass of property - in the hands of the state?