Sentences with phrase «legal persons because»

Corporations and municipal entities could be considered legal persons because they were associations of human beings capable of bearing legal duties in exchange for their legal rights.

Not exact matches

«Because the silencing of voices has helped perpetuate sexual harassment, the country should guarantee that people can go to court to ensure these concerns can always be heard,» Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post announcing the changes.

His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a story about ice cream, because these are some of the most irresponsible people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.

In my NYT bestselling book, Killing Sacred Cows, I warn people of the 15 major problems of the 401 (k), including: you're not the owner but only the beneficiary of your 401 (k), the government can change the rules at any time, you can't get to the money until 59 1/2, and the fees are typically much higher than most investments out there because you've added complexity and layers of administration and legal fees.

She continued: «We thought it had been deleted because they gave us assurances, and it wasn't until other people told us it wasn't true, but... we had legal assurances from them that they deleted.

«I knew people in Missouri who would go to Iowa, where same - sex marriage is legal, to get married, and then not tell people at work, because they were afraid,» Sanchez says.

«The Athletes» Village is close to my heart because I worked on both the bid and the closing, and I helped the team when I was working in the legal department with a lot of the contracts,» says Rosemarie Lipman, senior vice-president of people and culture.

And because the Amish have limited recourse to legal action, they stress the importance of having an «evil customer radar,» recognizing that some people's business isn't necessarily worth taking.

First, understand that just because you obtain a legal divorce, it does not release one or both people from their financial obligations when it comes to paying off a joint account.

The three states have lists of pesticides that are OK to use on marijuana, but so far none is conducting regular tests for banned pesticides, which has raised public health worries even though there's little or no indication of people becoming ill because of pesticides in legal marijuana products.

Indeed, the justices should hold that Hobby Lobby does not have religious rights precisely because the corporation is a legal person.

The Canadian Medical Association had recommended a legal age of 21 because of evidence cannabis can cause changes to the brain and may pose a serious health risk to young people.

The company decided to shut down because it was losing clients and had growing legal fees from the Facebook investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter..

Family connections may be a source of a lot of pain or anger, and because of the way our legals system is set up, at every turn on «your way out», legal forms demand «next of kin», hospitals demand «next of kin» — no kidding the poor dying person has no choice but to think of family.

Many people wrote me and said I believe you and I'm sorry but I can't get involved because of the legal ramifications.

There is no secular, biblical, psychiatric, medical or legal reason to deny people full participation in society or to deny them the full exercise of their rights because of their sexual orientation.

Don't tell me that some whacked - out crazy person shot my friend's little boy because God is punishing my country because Obama was re-elected, because abortion is legal, because gay marriage is legal in Connecticut, because church attendance is declining or because of whatever other reasons you and your political and religious cronies can imagine.

That being said, just because I support the use of contraception does not mean I find it legal to require people who religiously oppose its use to provide it to people.

This person is willing to accept the legal consequences of his / her actions because it it the moral thing to do.

Evangelicals and Pentecostals, indigenous and mestizos, have joined together to improve their social and economic situation, and to provide legal defense for people evicted from their ancestral lands because of their faith.

They would like the legal protection that marriage affords a family, but people like you prevent that, not because of any facts, but because you are blinded to reality by the religion you CHOSE to follow.

Again people, just because it is legal, does not necessarily make it a good idea!

Because once the door is open, neither logical nor legal prohibition can keep people — or healthcare laws — from walking on through.

«On the whole it was a failure because of the dichotomy between the nation - state's legal principles and the methods needed to oppress other people permanently.

Mr Obama is like chameleon his change depend who is his guest, with the rainbow party he is the first to understand the situation of the gay and lesbian, with the n.a.a, c.p. he is the brother who know how is become a black, with the mexican legal or illegal he know too because his father was illegal too, and the last the white people because his mother was a white, the question are how he can be with so many people who broke the law of the LORD and the law of united states of america.

If someone has the opinion that gay marriage should not be made legal whether it is because of their beliefs at not (yes, there actually are people who are not Christians who don't agree with gay marraige), they are pointed out as Christians deserving of hatred and death.

In America, just because a majority of people think your rights should not exist, does not make that right, moral or legal.

3 John Paul himself put it bluntly when speaking to young people at Denver, Colorado, in 1993: «The slaughter of the innocents is no less sinful or devastating simply because it is done in a legal and scientific way.

In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition to forfeiting several legal rights, especially with regard to the inheritance of property.

That's because at the stage where abortions are legal, what you call a «baby» is not yet a baby or a person.

Because it differentiates capriciously between «closely» held small «family» businesses which are NOT * corporations * (thus are NOT * persons *, and large «corporations» which ARE legal persons.

Elliot Mineberg, legal director for People for the American Way, was troubled by Scalia's remarks «because they so closely resemble those used by Christian activists such as Pat Robertson and Patrick Buchanan, who have asserted that the country is rife with anti-Christian bigotry.»

This judge deserves no place in our legal system, how many people have been treated or judged unfairly because of her?

Contract and property law are useful far beyond their role in litigation because they allow people of good faith to coordinate their activities by following pre-announced legal forms rather than having to work out their plans (even in good faith) on a case - by - case basis.

This is extremely concerning because the definition of harassment relies largely on the perception of the person who claims they were harassed: all they need do is allege that someone has «violated their dignity» or that someone created a «hostile or insulting environment» for them, and they can take legal action.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

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Generally, the law requires a person paying child support to make those payments until (1) your child is no longer a minor, unless the child has special needs; (2) the child becomes active - duty military; (3) your parental rights are terminated through adoption or another legal process, or (4) your minor child is declared «emancipated» by a court — that is, declared an adult earlier than normal because of the ability to be self - supporting.

With the exception of the first model (which is not a legal option because it's against public policy to plan the demise of a marriage), all of these options are being practiced in one way or another with people throughout the Western world (even in the U.S!).

I'm concerned about my family, and a big part of what I worry about is my daughter growing up in a world where people are denied the same legal rights and access to marriage because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

The initiating person will have to tolerate more frustration and likely have more expense because of the partner's resistance — both in legal fees and in the settlement — in order to exit the relationship.

«It is like once you get into politics, you throw discipline to the dogs, you are not under any law, you can do anything you want as a politician and it is that character that is going through... There are structures, party structures, legal structures but because you are in politics, the people who are actually activating the political system, they think that once I am in politics; I can push discipline and the law to the side and the policeman can not even do anything to me,» he lamented.

The question is a good one; I just wanted to discourage people from posting answers that say essentially «no, it's not legal because the law says that the republic may not take into account the fact that religions exist.»

In everyday English, they are used interchangeably because most people don't know the legal difference.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon wants to legalize marijuana because she says it is time to stop putting black people and others of color in jail for something that is «effectively legal» for white New Yorkers.

This is an unacceptable state of affairs, where people are liable to mistreatment by their employers but unable to take legal action because they do not have enough money to do so.

Because many people want marijuana to be legal.

People aren't arguing for legal recreational marijuana because some benefit from it medicinally, but rather they want the medicinal aspects of it fully exploited through more and more research — which will come about via the added revenue from the recreational market.

New York State is having a hard time keeping up because the drug is synthetic, meaning the people who are making it can slightly change the composition to make it legal.

We might believe that the reraising of the email legal issue days before the election unfairly tilted it one way, or emotive appeal or money unfairly tilted it another way, or that economic issues in some country promoted a racist candidate in that country to high office, but we don't argue that the election result becomes legally incorrect or invalidated because people (in our view) misjudged based on all they heard and knew.