Sentences with phrase «to legislate»

Contrary to right wing rhetoric, President Obama does not legislate for his own political advantage.

The legislature does not legislate in vain, and if physical possession is also necessary for liability, the definition of «occupier» under the Act would not include s. 1 (b).

Those who support the idea of legislating in favour of assisted suicide will always give you the philosophical argument that it is our choice when to end our own lives and it should be a choice to be able to die with dignity.

Devolution in the late twentieth century has brought a considerable degree of legislative autonomy to both Scotland and Wales; and yet the Westminster Parliament retains the power of legislating for the whole of the UK.

«The UK has also acted to protect vulnerable species by legislating on the use of lead shot for wildfowl and over wetlands.

If you are a non-resident, you will be subject to a 15 % withholding tax as legislated by Revenue Canada.

The lack of responsibility (Huckleberry reference) goes hand - in - hand with legislating morality in defiance of our personal rights and freedoms contained but not enumerated in our Constltution.

Another tap - dancing answer from a contemporary faux Christian, who sees nothing wrong with legislating against gay marriage, but sees no need for the same kind of moral legislation for str8 relationships, because God already did so.

As legislated by Congress, the funds that fueled Race to the Top were intended to help states «enhance the quality of [their] academic assessments» and «take steps to improve [their] academic content standards.»

At a Cato Institute gathering where the libertarian crowd was upbeat following the 2013 oral arguments, I asked Melhman how he responded to volunteers like me who worked to elect President Bush precisely because he stood against legislating from the bench.

Andrea Mitchell of Catskill has become a go - to 19th district constituent for others to discuss health care issues with after she confronted Faso on his front lawn in January about not legislating away health coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.

I don't have much hope of legislated change when it comes to this issue.

What I think you're missing is that the UN's declaration of human rights (which I also think is an amazing document that all should read) is not about how individual people treat one another, but how governments legislate on the most basic levels.

In the old days, for example, the government responded to high prices by legislating tax breaks for first - time home buyers.

When did the party that was against a strong federal government decide it was a good idea to get the government legislating what goes on in my bedroom and uterus?

So resistance has been met with legislated mandates.

The TUC has accused the coalition of legislating out of «pure political spite» rather than genuinely taking action to tackle rich corporate lobbyists.

Issue # 1: Carbon pricing To achieve legislated targets on climate change, Ontario has put a price on carbon, through the cap and trade system

As we've noted on this blog many times the Feres Doctrine, a 60 - year - old Supreme Court - created policy (talk about legislating from the bench) bars U.S. military personnel from suing the government for personal injuries suffered while they are in the armed forces.

For example, two core functions of the Council are to legislate bills and negotiate the city budget, and this budget increases staffing and adds resources to the Legislative and Finance divisions.

Mina, the sad truth is that, even as we compose these posts, huge factions in the muslim world are dead set on legislating beliefs into law (sha «ria).

Even if Congress legislates carbon taxes, nothing suggests that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will refrain from imposing EPA's anti-hydrocarbon rules on top of them or that the White House and Senate will reject any new U.N. treaty.

«The amendment to section 152 (325) of the Principal Act may raise constitutional issues over the competence of the National Assembly to legislate over Local Government elections.

We realize that pursuing financial compensation for the tragedy is certainly not the first thing that comes to mind after an accident, but filing a claim within the state legislated time frame is absolutely necessary.

However, the Act expressly stipulates that a pre-nuptial agreement may not purport to dictate the right to custody of or access to any children of the marriage, and may not attempt to limit a spouse's legislated rights in connection with the matrimonial home.

This was followed by another failure of the Obama administration: the inability to win support for legislating cap and trade limitations on carbon emissions.

Bilingual education was first legislated at the national level with Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1968.

The objection arises, Why should the state legislate morality?

Many of the less controversial policies — including legislating for a transferable tax allowance for married couples and making the Coalition's introduction of same - sex marriage subject to referendum — are known to be very popular amongst Conservative MPs.

«But there are obviously many situations where parents don't agree on that type of situation or it's just not feasible, and then to have some sort of legislated presumption unless you can show otherwise I think creates problems.»

The Commissioner essentially just disagrees with earlier Orders, but also notes these earlier Orders do not run through the same interpretive analysis of the various legislated definitions of «treasury branch» (Decision F2012 - 09 at paras 30 - 33).

Having the federal government legislate how schools should be performing is going to be much more difficult than the rhetoric suggests.»

The 2015 Utah Compromise suggests that both sides of the debate actually get more of their priorities put into law when they work together than when legislated on their own or litigated in the courts.

Although Parliament was not precluded in civil matters from adopting retrospective provisions, it can not legislate so as to interfere with the courts» handling of disputes before them:

I have written before that matrimonial homes enjoy special legislated protection under Ontario family law.

The political framework is orientated towards leadership in legislating new policies.

In the earlier blogpost, I had briefly set out reasons for Canada to be the first nation to use copyright reform to turn its open access research policies into a federally legislated human right to know.

The design tips outlined here can help you to not only meet legislated standards, but also to develop more robust and accessible eLearning for everyone.

I trust that it would treat them in the same way as legislated rules in the context of future s. 96 litigation.

This hardly shows progress from Dickensian times when the Thellusson Will case was fictionalised by Charles Dickens as Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak House, and led to Parliament legislating against such accumulation of money for later distribution.

While the rest of Canada is discussing getting rid of caps on awards for pain and suffering the current government in BC and ICBC may be pushing for legislated limits on these types of awards.

What we're seeing when we look at these people in Genesis is so unfamiliar that it helps to jump ahead in the Bible to the 10 commandments, which legislates for the patriarchal household, and think about why the final commandment is so hard to apply directly today.

It is therefore significant that today's announcement acknowledged the link between an effective carbon pricing system and the need for legislated emissions reduction targets.