Sentences with phrase «laws became laws»

We are going to be sorry we tolerated the ground zero mosque when Sharia law becomes the law of the land.

Almost any law in any country from any era has a history behind how the law became a law.

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That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

Trump has made it clear that he is not a fan of the media, and has said that if he becomes president he intends to «open up» libel laws to make it easier to sue the press for reporting certain things.

The law firm Osler warned clients that «for the moment, it would be prudent to assume that the [foreign takeover] approval process is becoming more difficult.»

«As a company that is committed to the principle that everyone deserves to live without fear of discrimination simply for being who they are, becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,» Schulman wrote in an open letter.

At a press conference, McCain, along with Sens. Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson, and Bill Cassidy, demanded that the House give assurances that the bill wouldn't become law if it passed in the Senate.

«You could sort of see it happening in slow motion, notwithstanding efforts by leadership to try to deflect it or push it back,» says Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff who became a top U.S. Chamber of Commerce official before landing at American Crossroads, the Karl Rove - founded Super PAC, which now aims to usher more moderate Republican nominees into the midterms.

Now, the practice has become law, and if you live on the island and want to paint your home, you must ask for permission from the government, who will assign your home a color.

But Canada is becoming a place where laws relating to cannabis are applied selectively.

Capitol Hill is gridlocked, so there are long odds against the federal bill becoming law, anyway.

King & Wood Mallesons has broken with tradition and become the first major law firm in Perth with a fully open - plan office.

More from New York Times: Even Popular Gun Law Proposals Have a Tough Road in Florida Once Banned, Now Loved and Loathed: How the AR - 15 Became «America's Rifle» After Brief Split, Trump and N.R.A. Appear to Reconcile

Somehow, the gender parity that's become the norm for professional programs such as medicine, dentistry and law continues to elude business schools.

As The Washington Post pointed out over the weekend, the other 19 states that passed so - called religious freedom laws did so before gay marriage became legal in most of the country.

Become familiar with the transportation laws that are particular to the state or states in which you plan to operate as well as the laws that are particular to the part of the transportation industry in which you are starting your business.

To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyeLaw School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyelaw school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

Corporations are likely to be the big winner if the current GOP tax plan becomes law, according to the latest CFO Council Survey.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

«To the extent that the program does that, discretion and case law and interpretation become much less of a factor.»

Things can become even more difficult if you operate in a heavily regulated industry that requires compliance with various laws and rules.

The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the U.S. government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible by law enforcement.

If the bill becomes law, it would immediately slash the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent.

Once fiat currencies, which derive their value based on laws rather than metallurgical content, became common, governments could simply print bank notes in large quantities.

Now, as Ontario is becoming more lenient with class - action suit regulations, the U.S. is tightening its laws.

Were these provisions to become law, they could result in some states, legislatively, providing one level of care or protection to some of their citizens and a different level to others — which, could violate the equal protection and fairness requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Italy might have just become a smaller concern for investors after the constitutional court ruled on changes to the country's electoral law.

Campaign Contacts with Foreign Persons When it became apparent that my father - in - law was going to be the Republican nominee for President, as normally happens, a number of officials from foreign countries attempted to reach out to the campaign.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

As for what will become of its rumored inventor, one Scott Cawthorn — a weak play on the name of Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthon — remains to be seen, potentially inside the court of law and out.

So whether it's possible for this plan to become law, and whether it's necessarily the right plan for the country's current landscape, remains to be seen.

The 69 - year - old Sessions, who could become the top law enforcement official in the country, has «a long and antagonistic attitude toward marijuana,» reported Politico.

But it's becoming increasingly common for aspiring cops to enrol in police foundations programs offered by colleges, and university degree programs with a focus in law, security or in the social sciences are also popular.

If it is public that you have a Blackberry and it it (sic) government and you are using, government or not, to do business, it may become an official record and subject to the law,» Powell wrote.

Others buy them in case U.S. gun control laws become stricter.

Just days ahead of the Winter Olympics, AT&T broke new ground again by becoming the first large corporation to publicly condemn Russia's anti-LGBT laws.

«You're basically inviting people to become out of compliance with the law, and that's never a good place to be,» he said.

His then brother - in - law came to him to become the Chief Marketing Officer of 1 -800-Mattress right when it was starting out.

After the Freedom Act became law in early June, the agency was granted a 180 - day grace period to get its affairs in order before putting an end to the bulk phone metadata collection program authorized by a particular portion — Section 215 — of the Patriot Act.

This means law firms will need to become intimately acquainted with the technology to advise clients on the best ways to structure various transactions on the blockchain.

The D.C. bill still must be signed into law and, like all District legislation, reviewed by Congress before it becomes effective.

Chilton said,» Unless this language is written to avoid it, this could blow a huge hole in the Volcker Rule and would obfuscate the intent of Congress and President Obama when the financial reform legislation became law in 2010.»

The dispute centered on the interpretation of a 1998 U.S. law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which protects internet service providers from liability when users upload copyrighted content, so long as they remove infringing material once they receive notice or otherwise become aware of it.

Regulators and law enforcement have become increasingly more aggressive in investigating Bitcoin and related exchanges.

But the most important one is this: the 1986 tax act was passed after a long legislative process by bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress, and became the law of the land.

More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.

On my own path to becoming a content marketer, I made a pit stop at law school.

Knowledge only becomes power when it's used, and unlike every other part of any creation and production process, knowledge isn't subject to the law of diminishing returns.