Sentences with phrase «key amendments in»

I am indicating 4 key amendments in the insurance amendment bill which would benefit you as policy holder

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Horgan says it's clear that the tax needs to be improved, and suggests three key New Democrat amendments that were rejected by the Clark government in July.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.

The primary framer for the 1st Amendment was Madison, who also was the key framer in much of the first ten Amendments.

Compost also plays a key role for soil management, but unlike in Biodynamics, Nature Farming typically does not utilize animals, it does not put the same emphasis on crops grown for animal consumption, and avoids the use of animal manure and waste products as soil amendments.

The onus is now on the government to ensure the 8th Amendment is finally removed from the Constitution as the key to protecting women's human rights in maternity care.»

1978 Research and policy recommendations by FRAC play a key role in passage of the Child Nutrition Amendments of 1978, which greatly expand the WIC and School Breakfast Programs.

According to the report, Senate suspended the consideration of the bill which sought to amend Section 308 (2) of the 1999 Constitution to allow for the prosecution of the affected leaders on matters relating to economic and financial crimes even when in office, because it was introduced to the Senate after the constitution review committee had submitted a report on the key amendments to be effected in the life of the Eighth National Assembly.

Meanwhile, it was also learnt that the ongoing amendment may deliver true federalism as the Senate Constitution Review Committee said it had got positive responses from key stakeholders in that regard.

We will be suggesting amendments to the Directive in this and other key areas, and would urge MEPs to consider the needs of savers.

In order to align the ECG Private Sector Participation (PSP) Programme with the concerns raised, government secured key amendments to the ECG PSP arrangements.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

A coalition of business interests, many of which are members or partners of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, are lobbying legislative leaders to reject a key element of the cost - cutting and reform plan put forward by the Medicaid Redesign Team and embraced by the governor in his 30 - day amendments.

Because of that bind, some key Democrats have pushed quietly for President Barack Obama to ask Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy — a Vermont Democrat who is a major backer of the same - sex amendment in the bill — to wait to offer it until the entire measure goes to the floor, POLITICO reported recently.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymanderinIn November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymanderinin either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

Holding a vote on the amendments, nevertheless, is key for the newly elected Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Suffolk County lawmaker who defeated upstate Sen. John DeFrancisco in a leadership vote last month.

Faso, along with Rep. Chris Collins, has sought to play a key role in the shape of the legislation, adding an amendment that would require the state to take on the county - level costs of the Medicaid program in New York.

Cuomo met personally with fence - sitting lawmakers and was involved in the crafting of the religious exemption amendment, which would prove key in winning Republican support.

This will all come to a head in the next few weeks when MPs vote on key amendments and on the bill as a whole.

The amendment was a key provision for the measure's introduction and passage in the Republican - led Senate.

Connecticut Senate Minority Leader John McKinney (R - Fairfield), left, and State Senator Edith Prague (D - Columbia), key figures in the bill being debated presently in the Senate to repeal the death penalty, talk in the Senate chamber during debate on amendments to the repeal bill.

(CNN)-- A key player in negotiations over potential gun control legislation said on Tuesday a planned GOP filibuster of the bill won't occur if Democrats allow Republicans to bring amendments up for a vote.

This happens because a key behavioural characteristic of Defence Contractors is that they will always choose to conceal technical risks identified early in the programme, by engaging with procurement officials and getting them to focus on declared risks which ordinarily fall in the trivia category, whilst skilfully diverting their attention away from those really huge «show stopping» risks which they will only reveal later on, when things go wrong, to realise their objective of «growing» the Contract by getting Abbey Wood Team Leader to raise Contract Amendments and / or let Post Design Services Contracts.

Generating support for that amendment could be a key element in the coalition, though administration officials say it's not a condition for membership.

While politicians are still working on the final wording of the amendment, «[t] he agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»»

Working with his once - rival Secretary of State Henry Seward (a low - key David Strathairn), he hires two proto - lobbyists (James Spader and John Hawkes) to woo as many lame - duck Democrats as possible to the amendment's cause, using the promise of government appointments in their home states to sweeten the deal.

In 2016, Ofsted republished with some minor amendments, some key inspection documents, including the School Inspection Handbook, and the non-association independent school inspection handbook.

During six years working with the Commission, Sharon played key roles in the development of regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act; the development of the Commission's Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues, and the Commission's work on Title VII's sex discrimination provision as it pertains to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons.

Mr. Peterson said the key differences between the amendment and the new Senate Bill 331 are added enforcement by the Department of Agriculture and tracking of puppies as they go through the process in an attempt to address concerns some pet brokers were selling dogs to stores that had actually been obtained from puppy mills.

The brief argues that the Court's invitation to overrule key First Amendment precedents would undermine, rather than advance, First Amendment values by granting corporations the power to use huge corporate treasury funds in electoral campaigns even though such funds were not accumulated for political purposes.

«Our leadership in the Southcoast delegation ensured significant procurement of renewable offshore wind, utilizing New Bedford as the main port,» said State Senator Mark C. Montigny (D - New Bedford), who authored key amendments during the 2016 energy debate to ensure stable and consistent offshore wind procurements.

The work of the initiative therefore creates a direct intersect between three internationally agreed goals for the first time: the Paris Climate Agreement; the Sustainable Development Goals; and the Montreal Protocol's Kigali Amendment * — with one of the key goals of the amendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refriAmendment * — with one of the key goals of the amendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refriamendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refrigerators.

The key words in section 57 are «any proposed law», which is either rejected or passed with amendments unacceptable to the House.

Jeffrey Holmstead's formative experience manipulating clean air laws began in 1989 as associate counsel to President George H. W. Bush, where he was involved in «the key steps taken to implement» the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, or as Clean Air Watch's Frank O'Donnell puts it, he «tried to «interpret» the rules in ways more favorable to industry.»

When a computer is in screensaver mode, does a police officer's touching a key or moving the mousepad in order to reveal the contents of the screen constitute a Fourth Amendment «search»?

In the Pringle case, a preliminary reference from the Irish Supreme Court, one of the two key issues to be decided by the CJEU was whether a pending amendment to the EU Treaties was validly adopted (see Laurens» post re: the ESM Treaty).

In re Boucher (2009): The United States District Court for the District of Vermont held that if the contents of the encrypted files are generally known to the government, then revealing the encryption key is not self - incrimination, and Fifth Amendment protections do not apply.

Of the four key documents in existence at the time Dwane entered into his purchase agreement — namely, the disclosure statement and three amendments — Dwane did not receive two of the amendments either before or at the time he entered into his purchase agreement.

«The scope of our review is very broad and, while we intend to deal with a variety of matters,... our key focus will be on vulnerable workers in precarious jobs and the need for legislative amendments to address some of the issue facing these workers,» wrote the special advisors in their interim report.

However, in a surprising move, an amendment introduced by Conservative Senator Hugh Segal and passed by a majority of Senators, including 15 other Conservative senators, gutted the key substantive provisions of the bill.

Consider the budget - driven approach taken by two local Kentucky lawyers, Public Defender David Barron and state attorney, Jeff Middendorf, who played key roles in Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, that addresses whether Kentucky's lethal injection drug protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Read more in this broad - ranging collection of essays that also includes a bibliography, an analysis of his voting record on key topics and his answers to First Amendment questions from his confirmation hearings.

She has drafted and advocated for amendment to town ordinances, secured state and local funding for community projects, and managed the press in support of key community initiatives.

We have set out below an overview of various key amendments to the ESA and LRA that are included in the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017.

Not only that, EPFNA has not been fully implemented to adequately support live - in caregivers and requires key amendments to ensure that it actually works.

Toby is a Director of the LCIA; Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); Fellow (previously Trustee) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Chartered Arbitrator; long - standing UK Delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration (where he has played a key role in drafting the UNCITRAL Rules 2010 and amendments to the Model Law).

Note that on October 11, 2017, we will be holding an Advantage session in Toronto on Bill 148 and the key amendments to the ESA and the LRA that will impact employers, including the changes to the minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, scheduling, personal emergency leave, temporary help agency employees, card - based certification for certain industries, first collective agreement arbitration and more.

At Gomez's original trial, Guevara testified to participating in essentially every key moment of the Diaz homicide investigation, but when asked in recent court proceedings whether he had framed Gomez, Detective Guevara invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

The Communications Data Bill is supposedly dead in the water during the current Parliament — the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners refuse to allow it — but the key elements are found in the amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which is in its latter stages of development.