Sentences with phrase «law against pressure»

Toronto's by - law provides a new opportunity to strengthen the emerging practice of integrated green building design,» said, Steven W. Peck, President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, which supported the by - law against pressure from developers opposed to the policy.

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More specifically, it is against the law for a bank to «impose undue pressure on, or coerce a person to obtain a product or service from a particular person, including the authorized foreign bank and any of its affiliates, as a condition for obtaining another product or service from the authorized foreign bank.»

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

BY ANDY HUMM Ten major Olympic sponsors from Coke to Dow Chemical ---- none of which has acceded to calls that they speak out forcefully against Russia's laws making it a crime to be gay in public ---- are now being pressured by the $ 161 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, led by Comptroller -LSB-...]

Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout's campaign to run against Andrew Cuomo on the Working Families party line forced him to bow to pressure.

However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, thanked de Blasio for expanding living wage while pressuring him to support a bill to be introduced in the Council that would disallow developers from retaliating against workers who unionize on projects covered under the living - wage law.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Both sides of the sick - leave debate are pressuring Milwaukee officials as they consider whether the city should join the appeal against a court decision rejecting the law.

Against The Law (US Exclusive Premiere) A powerful drama based on the true story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover, under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s — the infamous MontaguAgainst The Law (US Exclusive Premiere) A powerful drama based on the true story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover, under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s — the infamous Montaguagainst him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s — the infamous Montagu Trial.

But the stakes in this second year under the new system will only be higher, as the law gives school districts the power to bring tenure charges against teachers who don't fare well in a second consecutive year, putting new pressures on teachers and placing new responsibility on schools.

Our goals for this week were to galvanize charter school educators and administrators against teachers» union pressures for strikes and walkouts, dispel false claims to set the record straight in the media, reenergize parents and students, and bring urgency to legislators to pass strong charter laws and fund the ones already passed.

Media liberal pressure has prompted a stream of laws, regulations and directives to champion the criminal against the police, the child against the school, the patient against the hospital, the employee against the company, the soldier against the army, the borrower against the bank, the convict against the prison — there is a new case in the papers almost every day, and each victory is a small erosion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the institution.

The first is to attempt to place pressure on the Law School Admission Council to rectify all discriminatory practices against applicants with disabilities.

The claim said that the law society felt compelled to initiate and continue the investigations against DeMerchant and Sukonick because of public pressure it was facing at the time to discipline lawyers that had worked on the transactions.

James Grimmelmann, a NYU law professor, concludes in his blog post that while GSU clearly won the case, at one level, «the big winner is CCCC» as «it gains leverage against universities... and publishers who will be under much more pressure to participate in its full panoply of licenses.»

«InfiLaw officers have information and belief that during the prior administration one or more DOE officials coerced, pressured or significantly encouraged the aBA to take adverse accreditation actions against for - profit law schools, including schools owned by InfiLaw,» states the complaint, which also claims that the school has been treated unfairly by the ABA.

As commentary on the Australian law of witchcraft notes, «if clear protections of religious liberty are not a part of the law, public pressure may be all that is needed to encourage law enforcement officials to proceed against persons thought to be witches.»

Adolescents make their own decisions and are not powerless against this peer pressure, but they become delinquent when their interactions with others give them more reasons to violate the law than to obey it.