Sentences with phrase «law than authorities»

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The situation is worse, if anything, among accountants than it is among securities dealers, says John C. Coffee Jr., a Columbia Law School professor and a leading authority on securities enforcement issues.

«It would be absurd to posit that the authority the government sought was anything other than obnoxious to the law.»

If the mechanism as described on Friday becomes law, it would let Europeans complain to data protection authorities in their own countries about how the likes of Google and Facebook treat their data, rather than having to approach regulators in the country where those firms have their European headquarters.

Staff at the Quokka, a classified advertising subsidiary, are calling on a higher authority than WAN chief executive, Ian Law, when dealing with the public.

Federal laws now grant the IRS the authority to agree to settle your debt for less than the actual amount you owe, even if it's a significant amount.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) was formed on that day and their authority includes the handling of consumer complaints related to certain consumer protection laws for banks greater than $ 10 billion.

Furthermore, under the law in Delaware — legal home to more than half the Fortune 500 and the benchmark for corporate law — the right to manage the business and affairs of the corporation is vested in a board of directors elected by the shareholders; the board delegates that authority to corporate managers.

Again, no one is claiming that Thomas's position is identical with Scalia's, but, given what the great Catholic theologian had to say about the limits of judicial authority in reference to the written law, his position is far closer to that of the late justice than to the idea of a «living» or «evolving» Constitution so ubiquitous today.

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

Jesus overcame the powers — of the state, the authorities, the rulers, the law, etc. — not by being more powerful than they but by surrendering himself even unto death.

By coming to know the total presence of God in the Incarnation, Blake and every radical Christian is liberated from the God who is wholly other than man, and likewise liberated from the authority of a heteronomous law and an autonomous Creator.

But I do want to know if a candidate places fealty to the Bible, the Book of Mormon (the text, not the Broadway musical) or some other authority higher than the Constitution and laws of this country.

Democracy and the mainstream religions are fundamentally incompatible, because these religions dictate that a god, rather than the will of the electorate and the laws of the land, are the ultimate authority.

«So you see, the Son of man is greater than the law; his authority embraces even the Sabbath.»

There are also New Zealand drone laws that don't allow a drone to fly further than the drone operator can see, but Domino's says it is working with authorities to change those.

She replies to the tyrant that there is another law higher than the state's, and that she will follow it because of its divine authority.

First of all it should be noted that one should never harm the consciences of children in going against Church teaching merely to obey the law: «Our fathers chained in prisons dark were still in heart and conscience free» and better to be thus than to be applauded by the Local Authority advisers and teach what is wrong.

no, its no more a sin than eating buggers, just stop beating up on oneself, if you are in love with YHWH, and do His law, the 10 commandments, just as David did, plenty of wrong in his life, but he prayed, and he prayed, he also loved YHWH so much, he was loyal, and loving to YHWH, so YHWH chose him, and his seed, do the law of righteousness, the commandments, and pray, and pray, love YHWH with all of you heart, and no other man made of flesh, and blood can judge anyone else, only YHWH can, He has the complete authority, and as long as you have a relationship deep with Him, He knows.

No lesser a Christian than Martin Luther understood our predicament: Anyone, he wrote in ìOn Temporal Authority, î who tried ìto rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and the sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword» or the need for either»... would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds.î I do not believe that Hauerwas sees America's enemies as harmless, tame, and gentle creatures.

For example, by 30 percentage points (67.3 percent to 37 percent) native - born citizens are more likely to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be a higher legal authority than international law if there is a conflict between the two.

In her adultery, she is guiltier of defying male authority than she is of breaking the law.

In her adultery, she is more guilty of defiance of male authority than she is of breaking the law.

It is difficult to imagine a more obvious violation of the ban against laws «prohibiting the free exercise» of religion than a law that specifically allows such restrictions, even if there are some limits to the authority of governments to enact them.

There is a very good reason which a Faith of Israel should appear to be a faith of the Law and of Authority, rather than of contemplative possession.

He suggests that I think the moral authority of a democratically enacted law rests on no basis other than its existence, that «conscientious reflection on enhanced interrogation need consult neither the norms of international law nor codes of professional conduct,» and that I maintain a «narrow focus on the mere existence of a law (or its interpretation) and not its substance.»

But in the power battles which had been raging for some centuries, the contentions were common enough: «The Church's authority is greater than the authority of Scripture... the decretals of the Roman Church have to be added to Scripture... in the New Law the Pope's judgment is the oracle of God.»

Since the political common good depends on no branch of government taking more than its share of authority, obedience should not be given to an act that violates the foundation of the rule of law.

This subject deserves better than the court of political correctness, whose authority, advocates of homosexual marriage hope, will prevail until the law is voted on — a tribunal they defend by means of disqualifying caricatures against anyone who dares to question their project and their motives.

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

More simply, he denied the king's claim of final authority and announced instead the supremacy of the will of the Lord, a law that bound the reigning monarch not less than his humblest subject.

Most in NY know this is an unconstitutional law, and have joined the lawsuit to have this overturned, and will not enforce it, while it is in play.County sheriffs have more authority in their jurisdiction, than a governor, and even the POTUS.Hopefully, they have all read the constitution and understand their sworn oath to protect & Defend against all enemies Foreign and DOMESTIC.

Coordination must be stablished with local authorities; this is even more complex than in the USA because most of the USA soldiers will ignore the country language, laws and cultural differences.

The Erie County Water Authority last year declared a purchasing «emergency» so it could hire a law firm and then racked up more than $ 129,500 in legal fees.

But any law impacting the Port Authority requires approval by both state legislatures, and in New Jersey, both houses are controlled by Democrats who may be less - than - eager to sign on to a Christie - backed reform package.

As more is revealed about what really went on then that is still existing, and how the AG covered it up by refusing to indict the corruption now running the State Agencies and Authorities in Albany for massive Civil Service Law abuse and the granting of Pension System Final Average Salaries (FAS) way above the their permanent competitive status, you'll hear more excuses than a corrupt regime gives when it is about to collapse and they're in total fear.

The sweep generated the largest number of busts in a single sweep in the city's history as a legion of 700 law enforcers flooded more than 100 spots in the New York City Housing Authority complexes in Williamsbridge.

The law that created the Water Authority says no more than two of the three governing commissioners can belong to the same party.

The package includes laws that would protect the State's wetlands by giving the Department of Environmental Conservation authority over wetlands greater than one acre and requiring violators to repair damaged areas near wetlands.

A Salvadoran immigrant from Brentwood and her lawyer said she was detained by immigration authorities for more than a month in New Jersey as she was falsely accused of being an associate of the violent MS - 13 gang that local and federal law enforcement authorities are working to dismantle.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

The Severance Pay Limitation Act would make amendments to the public authorities law by defining at - will appointees, limiting the severance package allowable for at - will appointees to no more than three months» pay, and ensuring that severance payments are not considered in calculating retirement benefits.

Assemblywoman Monica Wallace, D - Lancaster, wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that public authority employees who serve at will, such as Water Authority Executive Director Earl L. Jann Jr., would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay, not years» of severance as Jann's pacauthority employees who serve at will, such as Water Authority Executive Director Earl L. Jann Jr., would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay, not years» of severance as Jann's pacAuthority Executive Director Earl L. Jann Jr., would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay, not years» of severance as Jann's pact allows.

The measure would come after more than 320,000 people have been left without heat or hot water this winter and following months of revelations that the housing authority had failed to conduct inspections for lead paint as required by federal rules and city law for four years.

She wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that public authority employees who serve at will, such as Jann, would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay.

Our research indicates that both educators and students understand the former's authority to be more limited and the latter's rights more expansive than has actually been established by case law.

Students will test the limits of acceptable behavior in myriad ways better known to school teachers than to judges; school officials need a degree of flexible authority to respond to disciplinary challenges; and the law has always considered the relationship between teachers and students special.

But it is more complicated than that since, by state law, each school district has authority over its own curriculum.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

Although charter schools generally are more independent of their chartering authorities than regular public schools are of their districts, and are exempt from most of the state's regulations, they must participate in state testing and comply with federal laws.

Wojcicki added her department has «received no formal information» from federal authorities about what will happen if the state misses 95 percent participation this year, other than a reminder that it is required under federal law.