Sentences with phrase «law says individuals»

The dilemma: The rule of law says individuals must disobey orders that they know are illegal.

One law says an individual state can declare independenc by itself, the other says it requires the support of other states.

Not exact matches

«This was a meticulously documented indictment, and certainly in the case of one of the individuals I think it opens the door to other matters and it emphasizes why the rule of law is so important, and that even includes the president,» said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat.

The agency has issued subpoenas to firms and individuals behind specific offerings that it believes might be breaking the law, said the person who asked not to be named because the investigations aren't public.

«It also operates to accuse Ms. Clifford of committing a crime under New York law, as well as numerous other states, in that it effectively states that Ms. Clifford falsely accused an individual of committing a crime against her when no such crime occurred,» the suit says.

«We investigate whether emotional shocks, experienced by a highly - educated group of individuals, have any impact on these individuals» professional behavior which, by law, should be free of personal feelings and biases,» says the report.

ICE public affairs officer Thomas Byrd said in a statement, «Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation's immigration laws.»

It sued North Carolina over a bathroom bill it said discriminated against transgender individuals, and has challenged state voting laws that it said disenfranchised minority voters.

So it's much harder for the long arm of the law to get these individuals to apprehend these individuals,» Sannikov said.

Chin said the company is able to broadcast things like the Super Bowl live to tens of thousands of subscribers because each subscriber has an individual antenna and a unique copy of the broadcast, thus enabling it to be considered by some in the eyes of the law as a private performance rather than a public one.

During his first State of the Union address in February, Trump said that Congress had «repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare,» citing the nixing of the health law's individual mandate (which requires Americans to either carry insurance or pay a tax penalty) that passed alongside the recent GOP tax overhaul.

Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a «Rube Goldberg - like contrivance» — an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way — that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.

In those cases, the IRS has said that it will allow taxpayers to request clarification of the tax laws as they relate to an individual's or a company's very specific set of circumstances,» explains Eileen J. O'Connor, a partner in the Washington, D.C., tax office of accounting firm Grant Thornton.

Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Jeff Merkley of Oregon said the Choose Medicare Act is a good way to help individuals and businesses who've been left behind by the Democrats» own health law or employer - based markets.

In the case of the GDPR, the law that's about to be enforced in May, De Mooy said there's a risk of putting too much weight on the shoulders of individual users to figure out what to allow to happen with their data.

Because so many guns are purchased privately by individuals and brought into Chicago from places with more lax gun laws like Indiana, experts say universal background checks could actually make a difference in reducing gun violence in cities.

Thus it was with a grim literalness that there was fulfilled, in the life of entire cultures and not only of individual families, the alienation described by the saying of Jesus in the Gospels: «I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter - in - law against her mother - in - law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household» (Matt.10: 35 - 36).

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

The refusal to use this terminology is, therefore, not at this point in itself a prior decision in favour of a Platonic conception of spirit, nor is it a prior decision whether within the world, that is to say within the domain of possible individual objects of cognition, there are any which absolutely and in every respect can be exempt from those «material» laws which we discover in the reality which we empirically experience, or whether this is inconceivable.

If each person were simply an individual unattached to any structure of social life, entirely independent of the orders, laws, and institutions which surround him, there would be no answer to those who say that to love is purely an individual and personal matter.8

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

«I believe the American culture to be one of the best nurturing grounds for individuality... I hope it should go without saying that I reject blindly embracing the religious values of different people especially when they are in violation of the law and rights of individuals.»

Secondly, according to Hartshorne,» [n] o human associates can be fully sensitive to all that passes in any one human person; and no human laws or institutions can be perfectly adjusted to any individual, to say nothing of all individuals» (RH 32).

In the precepts of the Law and the prophets alike the second person singular «thou shalt» alternates with the second person plural «ye shall» in a way which often makes it difficult to say whether «thou» means the people as a «corporate personality», or the individual member of the community considered with regard to his station in the religious society.

Writing for The Times the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: «It would be very naive to think that many of the elderly people who are abused and neglected each year, as well as many severely disabled individuals, would not be put under pressure to end their lives if assisted suicide were permitted by law.

Peirce himself somewhere says that an individual is determinate, conforming to the law of excluded middle as to predicates; but he also says, and by his tychism must say, that according to this definition there are no individuals, strictly speaking.

Likewise, although my math background is weak, isn't Borel's law saying that as the number of trials approach infinity the distribution of results approach the individual probabilities with a probability of 1, i.e. n - > ∞ the probability that «heads» will occur 50 % of the time is 1.

The ACCC secured its first criminal case under the laws in 2017 against Japanese shipping company NYK, which was fined $ 25 million, and has launched another case against Japanese shipping company K - Line, however Mr Sims said they were «foreign companies and don't involve individuals».

Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice Mitting, said it was unjustifiable that an individual could be kept in jail without an assessment of the danger they represent to the public.

«So abused have our laws become that justice and right is constantly being denied to a wide variety of individuals and organisations who question the truth,» he said.

«This legislation would let individuals from out - of - state convicted of certain crimes carry hidden, loaded weapons in New York, in violation of New York's much better, safer law,» Cuomo said.

So, lets say a certain wig - wearing candidate were elected president, and he decided to (contrary to certain campaign promises) not commit several violations of the constitution into law; Lets say he was a fantastic president, and brought peace and harmony to all individuals, regardless of race, sex, creed, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, blah blah blah...

Recent guidance has prohibited the police from arresting under Section 5 of the Act when they are the individual being insulted, but campaigners say the vague wording of the law makes it open to abuse by other groups.

The Obama administration released a lengthy report this morning on the progress individual states have made on the implementation of the health care law approved in 2009 and, rather impishly, quotes Republican Sen. James Seward saying the measure has the backing of business.

The first step, the governor said, was to sue to upend a new tax law that restricts individuals» ability to deduct from federal taxes the amount they pay in state and local property taxes, ending standard tax - code practice.

People close to the party say its leaders hoped to use the endorsement as leverage to extract a promise from Cuomo — for instance, a major change to campaign finance law that could tilt the balance away from wealthy individuals and businesses.

Speaking at the G20 African Partnership Conference in Berlin, Germany, he said African leader «must first facilitate the building of a new sustainable African civilization where there is accountable governance... rule of law, individual liberties and human rights, where the principles of democratic accountability are guaranteed and where we mobilize the immeasurable vast resources of Africa to resolve Africans problems.

Faso would not disclose the names of the individuals with whom he's involved in this endeavor, saying only that they are people sympathetic with positions of economic growth,» adding: «Disclosure means I disclose the contributors and the expenditures, but I don't have to disclose anything else, nor would you with a reguklar PAC if you set up something under federal or state law.»

The law, which fines groups and individuals for «public actions aimed at propaganda of pederasty, lesbianism, bisexuality, and transgenderism among minors» is an attempt to criminalise gay public protests in Russia, campaigners say.

SUNY Poly spokesman David Doyle said the school had no direct relationship with Howe, but that he is «one of a number of individuals at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna's law firm who are assigned to assist SUNY Poly in legal, business, and strategy matters.»

«Every individual, of whatever nationality, legally residing in Nigeria is guaranteed full protection under Nigerian and international laws,» he said.

Specifically on Mr Mahama, the former law lecturer said the current government's inability to retrieve monies fraudulently paid to individuals and institutions that the Supreme Court has ruled did not merit, is a blot on his administration.

With that said it should be clear that authority comes from the individual to give consent to be rulled by said laws.

As to threats from the administration of President Donald Trump, de Blasio said Trump's tax law favors wealthy individuals and that it increases the federal budget deficit.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said that the state's Freedom of Information Law is a «vital tool in realizing open government» and that it has «necessary exceptions to full access to government functions» that include individuals» personnel records which contain private information.

Spokesman John Milgrim says while the ethics commission can not comment on whether or not an investigation is being conducted «To the extent a problem is identified in any individual's financial disclosure statement, the Commission will seek full compliance with the law.»

Stec said «these individuals made a choice to break the law, they forfeited their right to vote until their entire sentence is served — parole included.»

Currently, New York law blocks organizations or individuals from being able to sue banks for securities fraud, and only allows legal action against them to be taken by the State Attorney General's office, union officials said.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

«To ensure the effectiveness of the law, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode set up the task force on land grabbing to handle individuals or groups that may be on the wrong side of the law,» he said.