Sentences with phrase «legal efforts at»

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

But legal experts warned at the time that the indictment could be just the first step in a broader examination of whether any Americans aided the Russians» efforts and, if so, to what extent.

In particular, as disclosed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amarin's ability to effectively develop and commercialize Vascepa will depend in part on its ability to continue to effectively finance its business, efforts of third parties, its ability to create market demand for Vascepa through education, marketing and sales activities, to achieve increased market acceptance of Vascepa, to receive adequate levels of reimbursement from third - party payers, to develop and maintain a consistent source of commercial supply at a competitive price, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in connection with the sale and promotion of Vascepa and to maintain patent protection for Vascepa.

Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

Observer wrote on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm, stating, «Mark, Yep, keep ignoring what the Bible says about the rich so that more effort can be made by Christians to trash others like gays or doctors performing legal operations.»

Malik was not in legal trouble at MSU, was a part of two National Title contending teams and he was drafted 35th in the NFL draft (Falling mainly due to injury concerns and character concerns (effort and attitude).

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

Also at noon, the LeFrak City Tenants» Association, the Black Leadership Action Coalition and The Black Institute file a legal complaint regarding voter suppression efforts by the Board of Elections in New York City, 60 Center St., Manhattan.

Rice has been arguing that she's a tough - on - crime progressive and insisting that her efforts to reform the legal system at the local level have not only been successful, but would translate into a statewide model if she is elected to the post AG Andrew Cuomo is vacating.

Her efforts have played out as the city continues its push to improve conditions at the jail complex, which is being overseen by a federal monitor as part of a legal settlement.

At the heart of the legal challenge to the loan is an effort from environmental groups to «invalidate» the state's plan.

NEW YORK CITY — Illegal hotel complaints increased 62 percent last year because short - term rental sites such as Airbnb are violating the law, hurting efforts to provide affordable housing and placing the safety of legal tenants at risk, elected officials said Tuesday during a marathon City Council hearing.

A spokesman for the Assembly Democrats, who are in power in that house, also says the legal fees went to redistricting related court action, as well as for the Assembly's legal challenges against Cuomo's Moreland Commission's efforts to look at outside income from legislators.

A few days after his speech at East End Baptist Tabernacle, Ganim withdrew a still - pending legal effort to overturn his conviction.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

The one legal caveat with independent expenditures made by the party committees is that whoever leads a party's IE effort can have no contact with the campaigns on which the IE program is focusing — a provision aimed at avoiding coordination between the two sides.

Their calculation puts them at odds with four larger groups more directly involved with lobbying efforts to end the ban: the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for American Progress, Servicemembers United and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Led by the efforts of Linda, John and Jackie Romano and Rob Esche, more than $ 100,000 was also raised recently to support the clinic's important work of providing free legal services to Oneida County veterans and their families, training local attorneys, and educating the next generation of veterans advocates at the College of Law.

Opponents outlined their legal and legislative efforts to prevent or at least delay Competitive Power Ventures» 650 - megawatt Valley Energy Center from operating.

«The Senate version of «TrumpCare» is even meaner than the House bill,» Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) told reporters at a press conference.

The Program is committed to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

Even if the so - called Clean Power Plan survives the legal gantlet, however, the United States will still fall short in meeting its pledged reductions for 2025 without significant additional efforts, according to researchers at the federal government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) transferred the animals — Hercules and Leo — back to the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana (NIRC) in early December, but the animal rights group behind the legal effort has vowed to keep fighting to release them from captivity.

Rapid advances in genome sequencing have provided promising new techniques to help researchers conserve endangered species, but efforts to resurrect extinct animals raise complex legal, ethical and environmental questions, experts said at a 4 November event at AAAS.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook transferred the animals — Hercules and Leo — back to the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana in early December, but the animal rights group behind the legal effort has vowed to keep fighting to release them from captivity.

Bienenstock led a campaign with Stanford's faculty senate and university trustees to eliminate a legal limit on the number of women students at the university, as part of efforts to promote diversity in the STEM workforce and other areas of public and professional life.

That legal framework puts a whole new emphasis on mapping and exploring the ocean floor at the edge of what is technically possible, because those efforts will determine what areas a given country can exploit later.

And while the agency insists the two delays — one a matter of months, the other a matter of weeks — are aimed at helping states develop compliance plans, observers say the moves could help shield the efforts from legal and congressional challenges.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

But the New Mexico system is different in two critical ways from other states» efforts: its design and launch have been especially mired in political and legal challenges, and its implementation and application have been especially effective at differentiating teachers by the skillfulness of their work.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

However, donors have not yet come close to hitting the cap because of a legislative effort to repeal the tax - credit law and a legal challenge that put the program's future in doubt during the first two years.21 The only scholarship organization operating at the time, the Network for Educational Opportunity (NEO), raised just shy of $ 130,000 in the first year and less than half that in the second year.

Our work with families, strong partnerships with leaders and service providers in immigrant communities, and expertise on legal rights and entitlements place us at the forefront of efforts to improve educational opportunities for these students.

Barnes and Empower DC have led the legal effort to stop the city from building a tour - bus parking lot at the old Alexander Crummell School in Ivy City.

Connecticut's system has been hugely successful in its attempts to promote racial integration within schools: In a recent Civil Rights Project report, Gary Orfield, a Distinguished Professor of Education, Law and Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, referred to it as «the only successful effort to produce a new legal framework to deal with the reality of metropolitan segregation.»

«Participants in our Lebanon study expressed concerns about how restrictions on legal status, raids of informal tented settlements, and arrests of Syrians at checkpoints seriously undermined the MEHE's efforts to accommodate Syrians in the public - school system.»

«We have maintained throughout this process that while the PED has every right to pursue all legal options under our judicial system, these frequent attempts at disrupting the progress of this case are nothing more than an attempt to stall the momentum of our efforts to seek relief for New Mexico's education community.

Similar as were their backgrounds and as closely related as were their respective efforts at eliminating broad political, social, legal, and educational inequalities, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Emily James Putnam differed to some degree in their predictions concerning women's fate.

Committee to Save Cooper Union will also be at the theater all day spreading the word about our legal effort to preserve free education at Cooper Union.

As the clock ticks down to the first set of sales of work from the Berkshire Museum's collection at Sotheby's in New York, a group opposing the deaccessioning called Save the Art — Save the Museum, which has so far raised $ 15,000 for legal challenges and publicity efforts, is organizing public events to further its cause.

by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in The Daily Caller It used to be that responsible liberal politicians made at least a token effort to distance themselves from extremist environmentalists and their efforts to shutter America's energy industry manufacturing jobs.

Though the legal effort is an essential part of the overall effort, the pending legal action does not negate the need for all other credible awareness raising efforts to continue moving forward at the fastest possible pace.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

There is also a growing body of literature which suggests that the aggressive efforts by climate deniers have adversely affected the communication and direction of climate research (Brysse, Oreskes, O'Reilly, & Oppenheimer, 2013; Freudenburg & Muselli, 2010; Lewandowsky, Oreskes, Risbey, Newell, & Smithson, 2013), and allegations of defamation have led to the re-examination of one of the first author's papers to eliminate legal risks that is ongoing at the time of this writing (Lewandowsky, Cook, et al., 2013).

The dubious legal basis of both the Tailoring Rule and EPA's efforts to bully States into immediately amending their permit programs» now impose a terrible uncertainty tax on our struggling economy, as no business is able to make plans or investments in reliance on a regulatory scheme so clearly at odds with the plain language of the Act.»

But at OCT, I had the opportunity to use my legal skills to advocate for an effort that I care passionately about.

As great at it is that Bush has created these marine monuments through executive power, the fact remains that the day - to - day protections for American coastal waters are lacking, and that the American role in multinational legal efforts to protect shared waters has been neither dramatic nor active.

«The way we look at the Clean Power Plan is that it is clearly a historic effort; there is going to be legal action,» Lisa Jacobson, president of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, said in an interview.