Sentences with phrase «interest mandate of»

The perspectives of lawyers and firms were important in our deliberations, but the public interest mandate of law societies was foremost in our final considerations.

That challenge is whether the cost of legal education at existing Canadian law schools is at odds with the access to justice or public interest mandate of law societies, and whether law societies or governments have a duty to regulate it.

«Darrel is a quiet leader who has always had the public interest mandate of the NSBS front and centre in his consideration.

Not exact matches

It solidified that mandate in June of this year by buying out FipkeCo's 10 % interests in the mine, bringing Dominion's stake to 90 % of Ekati's core and 68.8 % of the so - called «buffer zone» surrounding it.

For what it's worth, I think the strategy would also likely be ineffective: Suppose, notwithstanding our legal mandate, the Federal Reserve were to raise interest rates for the purpose of making it more expensive for the government to borrow.

But when that agenda means reneging on the EPA's core mission of protecting public health to serve corporate interests, it falls way outside any electoral mandate.

«Part of our decision rests on our belief that it would not be in your best interests to purchase a meaningful position in corporate debt in this vehicle, which traditionally has been a very important part of our investment mandate.

Ottawa said it proposes to introduce legislation that «would strengthen the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada's tools and mandate and continue to advance consumers» rights and interests when dealing with their banks.»

In recent months, Yellen and her colleagues have begun the process of raising interest rates — concluding, in effect, that with the unemployment rate down to 5 percent, the «full employment» part of their mandate is largely complete.

This includes quarterly press conferences by the Fed chair following FOMC meetings; publishing growth, inflation and short - term interest rate forecasts of FOMC participants on a quarterly basis; and a concerted effort to lay out the guideposts that the FOMC will look at in assessing progress towards our dual mandate objectives.

Canadians did not vote to see government power used to carry out a mandate written by the oil patch in the interests of a single province.

The Fed manages interest rate levels to meet their mandate of fostering «maximum employment and price stability.»

NWQ executive chairman Jonathan Horton said both of those two appointments on the east coast followed the award of a number of investment mandates, while the US - move had been driven by significant interest in the US market.

Be Careful about Home Mortgage Interest: As of December 14, 2017, the new tax law mandates that you can only deduct interest for new home loans up to $ 750,000 (the previous limit was $ 1 mInterest: As of December 14, 2017, the new tax law mandates that you can only deduct interest for new home loans up to $ 750,000 (the previous limit was $ 1 minterest for new home loans up to $ 750,000 (the previous limit was $ 1 million).

In remarks at the AARP on Monday, Obama stressed the importance of imposing a cohesive standard mandating that all brokers and advisors working in the retirement space act in their clients» best interests to guard against conflicted advice that could harm investors.

Before this, the publicly - owned Bank of Canada had a mandate and practice of lending interest - free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending;

Here's how: An advisor can help minimize the total taxes paid over the course of retirement by following this withdrawal order: required minimum distributions (mandated by law for investors age 70 1/2 or older who own assets in tax - deferred accounts), followed by dividends and interest on assets held in taxable accounts, taxable assets, and finally tax - advantaged assets.

CAN - Rac is the only organization in the country with a mandate to promote the climate movement as a whole, rather than the interests and programs of any one organization.

Koskie Minsky's legal mandate is to represent all Employees» interests in connection with all issues affecting them in the CCAA Proceedings, including the termination of employment and claims for termination pay and related entitlements.

The Committee's sizable and still - increasing holdings of longer - term securities should maintain downward pressure on longer - term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative, which in turn should promote a stronger economic recovery and help to ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with the Committee's dual mandate.

Securities law mandates that public company directors act in the interest of all shareholders.

But they have more misgivings than they once might have had about attempts to meet inflation and / or unemployment mandates that ignore the financial implications of the interest rate settings thought necessary to reach those goals.

It mandates that all who serve as fiduciaries — broker - dealers, investment advisors, insurance agents and the like — must act in the best interest of their clients.

Square is so interested in making sure its employees feel privy to company proceedings that it mandates that someone take notes during any «meeting of substance» and then share those notes with the entire staff.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

The program — which was mandated to find proof that foreign elements supported the American peace movement (any kind of support, even «encouragement,» «casual contacts» or «mutual interest»)-- was not halted until March 1974.

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

Although their mandate directed them also to study «existing patterns of church life, «9 all the working groups were generally reluctant to consider the existing structure of the congregation with the same interest and skill they brought to probing its relation to its environment.

But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.

Those who attempt to alter the constraints — like Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the UN mission in Rwanda, who tried desperately to get more troops and a mandate to stop the genocide — run into the self - interest, neutrality or caution of Western nations.

The Court conceded there was a compelling state interest in providing contraception; however, because the ACA has a number of exemptions and accommodations, most notably excusing non-profit religious organizations from the contraception mandate, forcing the plaintiffs to provide contraception coverage was not the least restrictive means to further the compelling interest, i.e. the HHS could have allowed the plaintiffs the same accommodations available for non-profit religious organizations.

The OFC takes an interest in the development and the revision of the national organic standards by the Canadian General Standards Board, which is mandated by the Canada Organic Office.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

In calling for Conflict of Interest safeguards at all levels and mandating WHO «to provide clarification and guidance on the inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children» the Resolution could do much to clean up these initiatives and ensure that they work truly in the interests of child health.

The mandate of the World Health Assembly is health and, quite rightly, it put health before business interests.

And the Fed remains the top cop of all, with a major conflict of interest: a mandate to both police the market and to encourage it.

In a system of representative democracy the role of those elected is to represent the interests and wishes of those who elected them and to enact the mandate they are given.

«Each takes decisions in the interests of Scotland, in light of their respective powers and their democratic mandate.»

The mandate tonight is to clean up Albany and to have elected officials who represent the people of this state and not the special interests and not the lobbyists,» said Cuomo.

Indeed, were Romney to win the presidency, it is likely that the White House will once again become a bastion of the ideology of American exceptionalism, believing itself possessed of a divine mandate to «transform» the world according to American beliefs and interests.

«The principle that requested information should be disclosed if there is an overriding public interest in having access to information, has been reaffirmed in the Joint Declaration adopted by the UN, OSCE and OAS special mandates on freedom of expression.»

The EFCC boss said in carrying out the mandate of the commission, he has been guided by the «fear of God, national interest and the rule of law».

A conflict of interest would arise if the cabinet secretary also was a published author and mandated all school kids buy their book.

«The strict secrecy of grand jury proceedings — originating in medieval England and mandated in New York by statute — can be detrimental to access to justice and public debate over issues of compelling public interest,» Lippman said in his annual address, known as the State of the Judiciary.

This is of special interest to the BOL because the ten Croton Watershed towns of northern Westchester have been saddled with $ 150 million in unfunded mandates by the New York States Department of Environmental Conservation to reduce phosphorous from the watershed to protect New York City's water supply.

The Advisory Board, which is mandated by the Older Americans Act, helps conducts annual public hearings; represent the interests of older persons; and reviews and comments on community policies, programs and actions, which affect older persons.

Warning that current Prime Minister Theresa May could be using the vote to attempt to win herself a «mandate for Brexit Means Brexit aka Brexit At Any Cost», he urged voters consider whether their chosen candidates would be «prepared to hold the Government properly to account in the interests of the country».

An interesting coalition of groups have teamed up to put pressure on the state to lower mandates costs for municipalities.

«Please, take note that I am not interested in surrendering the mandate the people of Kogi State bestowed on the Audu / Faleke joint ticket at the November 21 poll as I remain the governor - elect.