Sentences with phrase «law as an instrument»

We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective moral order reflected in a Constitution to which we are obliged; one given to private satisfaction, the other to familial responsibility; one typically secular, the other typically religious; one elitist, the other populist.

There is no genuine conflict between law and love for those who see the true nature of love as holy and the law as an instrument for facilitating love.

This belief also led many to some to shun the law as an instrument of change entirely.

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The CME Group is using a process known as «self - certification,» which is when an exchange pledges that the new instruments will not break any federal securities laws.

Perhaps it is as simple as a lack of liquidity as US corporations take money out of money market instruments in order to repatriate funds under the new tax laws.

On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are «a currency or a form of money» (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction, [274][274] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed bitcoins under the term «unit of account» — a financial instrument — though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.

Germany viewed the laws of history as favoring national planning to organize the financing of heavy industry, and gave its bankers a voice in formulating international diplomacy, making them «the principal instrument in the extension of her foreign trade and political power.»

This habit is shared, not only by revolutionaries, but also by constitutionally - minded socialists, and even by many who would describe themselves as liberals, and who locate the instrument of social transformation not in violent confrontation, but in law.

«The laws have changed, but the basic notion that lending should not be used as an instrument of advantage - taking is deeply embedded in our collective consciousness,» she wrote on the bureau's blog prior to the meeting.

It is one thing to be justified by faith merely as an instrument by which man receives the righteousness of Christ, and another to be justified FOR faith as an act or work of the law.

The ruling class of natural scientists, like so many tyrannies in the course of history, regarded a refusal to publish the laws by which it ruled as an indispensable instrument of its own tyranny (italics mine).

And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role of education is again manifest, as the human instrument of divine instruction.

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

The new regime would evolve around a set of basic texts (some codified as legally binding instruments and some adopted as customary law) and mechanisms for their enforcement.

There is no binding mechanism at the global level to hold corporations accountable for violating these measures (although there are instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child that give them weight in international law and are being used to remind governments of their responsibilities, and there have also been some attempts at European Union level to hold corporations to account for activities in third countries, with little success due to lack of satisfactory reporting mechanism).

The Supreme Court ruled that the said legislative instrument could only be used as guidelines but can not be enforced under the law.

The memo released Saturday by the Senate Republicans also argues no laws — such as filing a false instrument by submitting the misleading payroll records — were broken.

f) A Declaration that each of the Applicant's «right to vote and entitle [ment] to be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda» in light of the Act 699 and said various laws and legal instruments is not subject to any condition precedent aside the article 42 age and sanity of mind criteria;

«The law is merely an instrument, and without the involvement of human hands, it is as lifeless and uninspiring as a violin kept in its case,» Bharara said.

On how to criminalise such attacks, the parties agreed to «evolves legislative instruments such as hate crime laws to promote tenets of solidarity, support and protection for Nigerians living in (The Diaspora) towards finding lasting solutions to the crisis in South Africa and other similar cases.»

State law prohibits knowingly presenting false documents to any public official or agency, a charge technically known as «offering a false instrument.»

Thirdly ministers will be given delegated powers to create secondary legislation such as statutory instruments to amend instances of what the Bill terms «deficiencies» in this body of retained EU law.

The State Legislature passed a law in 1931 that said «a person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine - gun to any person is guilty of a felony.»

Mills moved the office of the president back to the Osu Castle and later changed the sign in front of the building back to its original name, claiming that the previous government had not used a Legislative Instrument to effect the change as required by law.

As a non-binding instrument, the declaration must be incorporated by UNESCO's member states into their national laws, regulations or policies in order to take effect.

She helped to fashion the constitution of the ocean — the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)-- as an instrument for the peaceful use of ocean services and resources for the benefit of all humankind.

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Mandatory Demand as a Policy Instrument: The Case of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program, Jay Kesan, Timothy Slating, Hsiao - Shan Yang, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No.

(c) The Secretary shall issue or cause to be issued notices for all meetings of the Executive and the Society when directed to do so, have charge of the minute books of the Society and record and maintain minutes of the Executive and all meetings of the Society: sign with the President or other signing officers of the Society such instruments as require his / her signature and shall perform such other duties as the terms of his / her engagement or this by - law call for, or the Executive may from time to time properly require of him / her.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

The law says that local superintendents get to determine which teachers fall into the 25 percent pool and put their names forth for consideration, as long as they've been working for three consecutive years and has shown proficiency on the teacher evaluation instrument.

In the 2010 law the deadline for the State Board of Education to adopt the guidelines for teacher evaluation was no later than July 1, 2013 and some guidelines must instruct local education officials as to the «minimum requirements for teacher evaluation instruments and procedures.»

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They include international instruments such as treaties and declarations; nationally based standards such as constitutional provisions and national laws; certification schemes such as the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP); and voluntary initiatives that are adopted by businesses on a voluntary basis (Report 4).

In a consumer credit sale, the seller may not take as evidence of the obligation of the buyer, a negotiable instrument other than (1) a check; or (2) a promise or order containing a statement, required by applicable statutory or administrative law, to the effect that the rights of a holder or transferee are subject to claims or defenses that the issuer could assert against the original payee.

Except as expressly provided herein, any claim, dispute or controversy (whether based upon contract; tort, intentional or otherwise; constitution; statute; common law; or equity and whether pre-existing, present or future), including initial claims, counter-claims, cross-claims and thirdparty claims, arising from or relating to (i) the Card; (ii) any service relating to the Card; (iii) the marketing of the Card; (iv) this Cardholder Agreement, including the validity, enforceability, interpretation, scope, or application of the Agreement and this arbitration provision (except for the prohibition on class or other non-individual claims, which shall be for a court to decide); and (v) any other agreement or instrument relating to the Card or any such service («Claim») shall be decided, upon the election of you or the Bank (or Green Dot Corporation or the Bank's agents, employees, successors, representatives, affiliated companies, or assigns), by binding arbitration pursuant to this arbitration provision and the applicable rules and procedures of the arbitration administrator in effect at the time the Claim is filed.

More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.

1990) for an explanation that back dating violates no general contract law principles and is «determined by the intent of the parties as deduced from the instrument itself.»

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Dew says that one of the Moorish tenets — the idea that African Americans lived in the U.S. long before the arrival of Europeans — is now being used, however, «to justify the assertion that land instruments such as mortgages are not valid and that local laws do not have to be obeyed.»

Infringement proceedings are aimed at simultaneously policing compliance with EU law by Member States and more generally as an instrument for securing performance of EU policies.

When upon stopping a person under circumstances prescribed in subdivisions one and two a police officer or court officer, as the case may be, reasonably suspects that he is in danger of physical injury, he may search such person for a deadly weapon or any instrument, article or substance readily capable of causing serious physical injury and of a sort not ordinarily carried in public places by law - abiding persons.

165 Similarly, when the University hired William Horn Battle, a former head of a private law school, as its first law professor, in 1845, his students read and recited, and engaged in a moot court at which they discussed legal questions and drafted «pleadings and other legal instruments.»

M&A legal experts in the meantime have gained increased confidence to handle complex share purchase agreements or other transaction instruments similar to that of other SEE jurisdictions as the legal framework for M&A s is up - to - date and not so different to that of other countries in this region (e.g. merger filing legislation for example is fully harmonized with EU law).

Where an expression of time occurs in any Act, proclamation, regulation, order in council, rule, order, by - law, agreement, deed or other instrument, heretofore or hereafter enacted, made or executed, or where any hour or other point in time is stated either orally or in writing, or any question as to time arises, the time referred to or intended shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, be held to be the time in effect as provided by this Act.

Drawing on existing scholarship on international trade law, Ankersmit identifies three challenges to PBMs as instruments of trade policy: extraterritoriality, unilateralism and the public / private divide.

In the meantime, companies that were transferring data to the US under the Safe Harbour (including all Internet Giants) have to find creative solutions to meet the CJEU criteria as the use of the alternative instruments foreseen by the Data Protection Directive (contracts, binding corporate rules) is exposed to similar criticism from national courts, or at least to greater scrutiny from DPAs with regard to the mechanisms of protection installed to prevent (disproportionate) access to the data by US law enforcement authorities.

All these documents are important because the Commission has retained them as «appropriate guidance» (paragraph 56 of the decision), thus giving these soft law instruments a hard edge.

The ECJ confirmed once again that the ECHR «does not constitute, as long as the European Union has not acceded to it, a legal instrument which has been formally incorporated into EU law», even though Article 6 (3) TEU confirms that fundamental rights recognised by the ECHR constitute general principles of EU law and Article 52 (3) requires that ECHR - corresponding rights in the Charter are given the same meaning and scope as those laid down by the ECHR (para. 45).

The legality of PBMs as instruments to promote positive global environmental and social change is a familiar topic in WTO law, but presently underdeveloped in the scholarship on European integration.