Sentences with phrase «lack of enforcement at»

The commission's exact instructions were to look at potential violations and lack of enforcement at the notoriously lax state Board of Elections.

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He also said the lack of federal guidance has led to deeply uneven enforcement of floodplain building at the state level, with enormous disparities around the country resulting in more resilient states, in essence, subsidizing disaster - prone development in others.

And as organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram, or al - Shabaab push out existing governmental structures, the lack of organized law enforcement leads to «minorities suffering at the hands of violent groups,» the report said.

Napolitano's warning came at the first in a series of hearings convened by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R - New York, who is determined to investigate what he terms the radicalization of Muslim - American communities, a problem he says is compounded by their lack of cooperation with law enforcement.

«There's a lack of disciplinary enforcement at the school, and the students can sense it.»

Reaching out to all police commissioners and elected officials throughout Westchester County, he scratches his head at the lack of push back from the community leaders, elected officials and other law enforcement officers, in the many examples of police criminality in the county.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

Bengal's public service dates back to the Vietnam War, but his accomplishments fighting for animals includes the creation of humane law enforcement operations at several Philadelphia - area animal organizations, including Women's Humane Society, Delaware County SPCA, and at the Pennsylvania SPCA, which has continued to grow, despite the lack of any government funding.

Paper promises in the form of policy and legislative mechanisms are good and well; but as experience has taught us, paper promises are 90 % of the time just that, lovely forms of references when monitoring a state's adherence to international agreements or even local law, but the lack of monitoring and enforcement barely happens and if at all with «sweetheart - slap - on - the - wrist» penalisation of polluters.

But the patchwork nature of Canadian securities regulation, combined with a lack of resources and weak laws, have doomed previous efforts at increasing enforcement.

We are always at risk and we are without adequate protection from often very shady business operators and a system suffering from a lack of oversight, poor regulations and no enforcement.

Mrs Justice Bracewell discussed at paragraph 10 the (then) lack of powers available to the court to address intractable contact disputes (prior to the Children and Adoption Act 2006 introducing new» contact activity directions» and» enforcement powers»).