Sentences with phrase «in civil unions at»

Rather, I want to express my wish that technical solutions be found that would protect partners in civil unions at the same level as married spouses in the case of death or separation.

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Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good example.

Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.

According to Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union, police in Colorado, Florida, and North Dakota have used drones for various uses, including accident photography.

The European union is suffering from yet another crisis: the tens of thousands of migrants arriving at its shores each month, a large portion of whom are fleeing the civil war in Syria.

Summary: «The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.»

It should not be difficult for companies to extend EU practices and policies elsewhere because they already have systems in place, said Nicole Ozer, director of technology and civil liberties at the American Civil Liberties Union of Califocivil liberties at the American Civil Liberties Union of CalifoCivil Liberties Union of California.

Will the SEC take this opportunity to clarify that same - sex couples in civil unions, domestic partnerships, and similar legal relationships intended to give them at least some of the economic benefits of marriage, are «spouses» to one another, and thus eligible for the alternative accredited investor qualification standard made available to persons who are married (with the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA, it is already clear that persons in same - sex marriages are «spouses» to one another)?

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.

Join First Things editor R. R. Reno, veteran civil rights activist John M. Perkins, Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University, and others at the Union League Club in New York City to honor the life of Plough author Johann Christoph Arnold, who died earlier this year.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

Ingersoll was many things, such as a Union officer in the Civil War, the attorney general of Illinois, one of the great orators of his time (his «Plumed Knight» speech, in which he nominated James G. Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention, is one of the great political speeches of its time), Republican political leader, attorney, and atheist.

(2) His church (the LDS Church) does not oppose civil unions, at least limited ones (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705260852/LDS-official-lauds-work-for-Californias-Prop-8.html?pg=2: «in general, the church «does not oppose civil unions or domestic partnerships,» that involve benefits like health insurance and property rights»).

The civil theology of the youthful Hegel in Germany during the decades after the French Revolution shows the yearning for the union of Christian and citizen was still vigorous at the end of the eighteenth century.6 These youthful speculations stand behind Hegel's mature political theory as well as, curiously, behind the thought of Marx about man and citizen.

A much fuller discussion of Canadian civil religion or the lack thereof is contained in a doctoral dissertation on the subject currently in progress at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, by William A. Stahl.

Last week, whilst teaching a course at Colorado College, I wrote a piece for The Economist about a bill to allow civil unions in the state, which was combined with reporting on Obama's announcement in support of gay marriage and that passage of North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Also at 11 a.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union holds press conference to announce legal action it will take regarding mistreatment, abuse and denial of rights for farmworkers in New York state, East Capital Park steps, Albany.

But a statement from Chafee in 2004 at the time the Federal Marriage Amendment was rejected indicates he supported civil unions and believed each state should be free to make its decision on the issue.

Also at 1 p.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union presents oral arguments in the Albany County Supreme Court challenging the exclusion of farmworkers from the state labor law that protects employees who organize, Albany County Courthouse, 16 Eagle St., Albany.

The New York Civil Liberties Union's Donna Lieberman, speaking at a rally at the State Capitol in May, said her group expects success in the case.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

Action by up to 10 unions will be finalised at next week's TUC conference in London, said Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the civil servants» Public and Commercial Services union.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

As a former labor union leader, Miller's perspective on the issue is decidedly pro-labor, and his position as chair of the Council's civil service and labor committee puts him at the front lines in addressing it.

At a separate news conference in Mineola with law enforcement and civil service unions, Martins, a former state senator from Old Westbury, stood by the mailer and accused Curran of politicizing the issue.

New York Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D - Albany, speaks to the media near the New York Civil Liberties Union's «Wheel of Justice» at the Capitol in Albany on Wednesday.

Hundreds of union members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and United University Professions (UUP) will rally in Brooklyn Thursday, March 8, to protest plans to close Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, and beds at SUNY Downstate University Hospital, and shift Downstate's inpatient operations to the Long Island College Hospital campus.

This suit seeks to remedy the violations that occurred at Pan American and ensure that the New York City Department of Education protects its employees» civil rights in the future,» Bharara said in announcing the lawsuit, which came a day after his office charged the city's Correction Union President Norman Seabrook with fraud and corruption.

ALBANY, NY (03/07/2012)(readMedia)-- Hundreds of union members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and United University Professions (UUP) will rally in Brooklyn Thursday, March 8, to protest plans to close Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, and beds at SUNY Downstate University Hospital, and shift Downstate's inpatient operations to the Long Island College Hospital campus.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

«At one time I thought civil unions afforded the opportunity to provide the ability for same sex couples to attain the status they wanted,» says Saland, who voted against same - sex marriage when a similar bill was defeated in 2009.

But Alex Salmond has hit out at the rejection of a currency union in the current proposed form, describing the comments of all three main UK parties, two main parties in the Hollyrood Parliament and the Treasury's most senior civil servant as bluff, bluster and bullying».

U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly ruled in favor of a habeas corpus petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump signed his order.

«At the end of the day, it's pure and simple a rogue domestic surveillance operation,» said Christopher Dunn, a New York Civil Liberties Union lawyer involved in the convention lawsuit.

Brussels - based civil servants work at UKREP - effectively a UK embassy in Brussels - as they prepare the groundwork for the PM and ministers when they work and negotiate with the European Union.

Transgender students in New York continue to face harassment and discrimination at school, according to a recent report from the New York Civil Liberties Union.

At the meeting, members noted that Mr Corbyn had promised to restore national pay negotiations in the civil service and oppose further cuts to pay and redundancy terms, and to repeal the Trade Union Act.

Some ecclesiastical lawyers argue that by allowing civil unions to take place the government will leave religious groups at the mercy of local authorities, who have a legal obligation to ensure equality in the provision of goods and services.

Yusuf Abdul - Qadir, director of the central New York Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, also spoke at the rally in front of City Hall, where protesters gathered before marching south to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office near 401 S. Salina St.

But in December, the county's largest union, the Civil Service Employees Association, balked and declared negotiations at an impasse.

The New York Civil Liberties Union's Donna Lieberman, speaking at a rally at the State Capitol in May, says her group expects success in the case.

Despite the conclusion of one of the more controversial contract battles in recent history between the Civil Service Employees Association and the executive branch, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NY's largest state workers union remain at odds over a host of issues.

The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said this in Abuja on Saturday when the European Union Electoral groups Follow - up Mission to Nigeria, Civil Society Organisations and other stakeholders compared notes with INEC at a round - table discussion organised by the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and West Africa.

It was an appraisal of sorts for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on 20th October, when the European Union Electoral Follow - up Mission to Nigeria, Civil Society Organizations and other stakeholders compared notes with the Commission at a well attended roundtable organized by the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and West Africa.

In February of last year, the New York Civil Liberties Union revealed for the first time that the NYPD had since 2008 used covert cell phone tracking devices at least 1,000 times.

The New York Civil Liberties Union's Donna Lieberman, speaking at a rally at the state Capitol in May, said her group expects success in the case.

The acting NLC President, Kiri Mohammed, disclosed this at the 11th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Civil Service Union on Thursday in Abuja.

The litigation is being carried forward by the Public Patent Foundation, headed by Daniel Ravicher, a patent attorney at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a nurse at Mansion House Hospital in Union - occupied Alexandria, Virginia, during the early years of the Civil War.