Sentences with phrase «in meaningful law»

There are a lot of different ways for you to engage in meaningful law firm marketing.

Not exact matches

«We've worked for years to help drive meaningful diversity at our preferred law firm providers, and supporting the Mansfield Rule Client Forum is an important next step in this work.»

As Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out in an essay earlier this year on the Lawfare site, it is extremely difficult — and perhaps even impossible — to draw a meaningful distinction between what the New York Times does and what WikiLeaks does.

As part of the launch of the S.O.S. Initiative, Schneiderman and Gascón commended New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for urging the four leaders of the smartphone industry to protect consumers, and shareholder value, by working with law enforcement agencies and government officials to pursue a meaningful solution to the spike in smartphone thefts.

«The Liberal government has once again demonstrated that they are more interested in their public image than meaningful and measured criminal law reform.

A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern conservative and the traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.

Science is objective, and math is objective; but philosophy, law, politics, art, music, and religion are all subjective because they aren't really testable in any really meaningful way (law and politics would come closest in that bunch.)

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

In the 1970s, the Jackson - Vanik Amendment (tying favorable trade status to human rights norms) and the Helsinki Final Act «resuscitated» the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at last gave religious freedom a meaningful place in international laIn the 1970s, the Jackson - Vanik Amendment (tying favorable trade status to human rights norms) and the Helsinki Final Act «resuscitated» the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at last gave religious freedom a meaningful place in international lain international law.

There are fascinating and meaningful stories in the J, E, D, and P documents and the postexilic short stories, great devotional passages in the Psalms, substantial wisdom literature, and as we have seen, significant structures in Israel's law.

It is a Law in Matter that is cosmic and all - inclusive, so that the entire universe is one equation of meaningful development in mutual relativity of part on part at all times and throughout all space.»

Iowa custody laws exist to ensure that children caught in the middle of a child custody battle are protected and that both parents are able to sustain a meaningful relationship with the child.

But the government in Kiev needs meaningful help from Brussels to restructure its debts, to prevent oligarchs from washing money in Western banks, to protect poor citizens from the harsh implications of reforms, and to enhance the rule of law and institutions of civil society.

Armed with the leverage to demand meaningful changes in a law that was about to expire, Governor Cuomo held all the cards here.

«The recent wave of mass shootings is horrifying, and the federal government's failure to act on any form of meaningful gun safety laws is unconscionable,» Cuomo said in a statement.

However, to be meaningful this must be backed up by changes in planning law that stops owners demolishing and converting pubs without even the need to apply for planning permission, otherwise, in many cases there would be no pub left for the community to bid for!

«I will continue to work with my colleagues in government across the State to pass our Abandoned Property Neighborhood Relief Act, a legislative solution that will codify today's reforms into law, provide meaningful enforcement, and give municipalities the resources to take back their streets.

@Josua Except in the legal sense, which is the only meaningful in a State of Law (think of Pres. of the USA who did lost the popular vote but were elected).

In a statement released Sunday, Republican Senate Leader John Flanagan of Long Island said any renewal of the laws «must include meaningful and systemic reforms which eliminate the abuses that exist.»

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

The mayor cited strict gun laws that are already on the books in New York City and state but said lawmakers here are «constantly challenged by the massive flow of guns from around the rest of the country and the lack of any meaningful regulation nationally.»

In that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquIn that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquin the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.&raquin developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.»

«The end result is obviously the most important thing and that's that we have a meaningful rent regulation bill in place when the current law expires,» Silver said.

He advised Ghanaians to be law - abiding in the discharge of their duties since no meaningful development could take place in a chaotic environment.

Our engineers worked with them to determine what aspects of their control law we could test in a meaningful way on the F / A -18.

No big deal — simply apply an adjustment the system by adding in another of the ten laws, or by adding any other such meaningful behavioral adjustment.

Throw in spring break, a special 6 year old birthday celebration, and a week long visit from my in - laws and I've realized that our Easter will have a much simpler, but hopefully still very meaningful feel to it this year.

The interdistrict provisions in the law are weak, and charter options are not meaningful in states with arbitrary limits on new charter schools.

«The public perception,» says Stanford professor Tom Dee who has researched the law, «seems to be that No Child Left Behind has failed, but the available research evidence suggests it led to meaningful — but not transformational — changes in school performance.»

Linked Learning ignites students» passions by creating meaningful learning experiences in career - oriented pathways in fields such as engineering, health care, performing arts, law, and more.

Assemblymember Shirley Weber's AB 2826 would have strengthened California's teacher evaluation law to remove any possible uncertainty over the state's requirement that teachers be evaluated in a fair and meaningful way, using multiple measures, including student progress.

If the SQSS indicators are important signs of school performance, as the law suggests they are, they should be accorded a meaningful weight in the process of identifying schools for support and improvement.

While parents can «trigger» one of the pre-selected options, the law does not provide for meaningful parent involvement in developing research - based strategies to address the challenges their schools face.

A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.

Moreover, in many sections of the new law, there are requirements for meaningful community and stakeholder engagement, which then requires state policy makers to reconsider the ways in which education policy has previously been developed and imposed on teachers, students and even parents.

As the lead House Democrat on ESSA, I was proud to work alongside the National Urban League and other crucial civil rights partners to ensure high standards and other meaningful federal protections for Black students in the new law.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

Lawyers know the law, but may not be confident in the preparation and delivery of a meaningful and helpful presentation.

New federal law requires state and local education agencies to engage in «timely and meaningful» consultation with area tribes while preparing and submitting plans for federal programs.

The word «meaningful» is used abundantly in the law.

The «value added» — what instructors contribute to student growth on tests — is a more meaningful indicator of progress than the absolute numerical targets in the federal No Child Left Behind law, advocates say.

Over the past two years, according to a report out Tuesday from the National Council on Teacher Quality, 33 states have passed meaningful new oversight laws or regulations to elevate teacher education in ways that are much harder for universities to game or ignore.

These enhancements, like those in the new CAEP standards, should go beyond independent accreditation into state law and policy that includes transparent data linkages of students with their teachers and the preparation program from which they graduated, and with meaningful «teeth» for accountability.

In a society whose laws restrict freedom of speech, the struggle to create a meaningful story reads like a trip through a house of mirrors.

All meaningful power in business, politics, and law enforcement were funneled into the hands of this wealthy organization.

As the table makes clear, even the lowest interest rate environment will cause law student debt to increase in meaningful ways.

«Shuttering the CFPB's student lending office is an appalling step in a longer march toward the elimination of meaningful American consumer protection law... This action actively promotes greater profits for a handful of debt collection businesses at the expense of mistakes, neglect, and confusion for millions of student loan borrowers.»

Rule makes privacy statements more meaningful — Banks can skip mailing their privacy statements as long as they don't share your information in ways that are restricted by law... (more)

This group conducts undercover investigations, coordinates outreach and public education campaigns, lobbies government bodies to secure stronger laws for animals, participates in corporate outreach and pressure campaigns to secure meaningful animal related policies, and they engage with the mass media to raise the profile of animal issues in Latvia.