Sentences with phrase «legislation against the practice»

There is legislation against the practice in Cross River but it has not been enforced,» he added.

Maryland is the 12th state to enact legislation against the practice of trying to alter a person's sexual...

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In the 1990s, Bill Clinton used the harsh prescriptions available in legislation from 1988 that allowed him to issue punitive tariffs against «unfair» trade practices.

The changes in Nestlé policies and practices that have been achieved are attributable to pressure from the boycott and concerted work around the world on monitoring companies against the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and working for legislation to enforce these measure.

In the United Kingdom, the 2012 Contest annual report notes that «over 4,000 URLs which breach UK terrorism legislation have been taken down», while referencing the need to see «more work done to ensure the communications industry is aware of extremist material circulating on their communications services and is actively assessing that material against their own codes of practice to determine whether it should be removed».

Best said the legislation would open the city to a flood of lawsuits against the NYPD and could spell the end of stop - and - frisk — a practice that critics say unfairly targets minorities.

At 1:30 p.m., Empire State Agenda will be joined in Albany by Assembly members, state senators, and LGBTQ advocates to «demand the State Senate take up the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), civil rights legislation that would extend New York's anti-discrimination laws to safeguard trans individuals, who currently stand outside our state's legal protections against unfair practices.»

The credit card reform legislation was passed in order to protect consumers against predatory and unfair practices by credit card lenders.

They worked to push legislation into the hands of the appropriate committee that would eventually unanimously vote, in April of 2012, against the practice of dentistry outside the supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

The breeders against legislation seem to want to support all breeders even if they practice poor management and care of the animals.

No one surfaced to defend the practice, but lawmakers repeatedly let proposed legislation against the traffic die in committee.

Brent still serves on the board of directors for KC Pet Project and is the author of the «KC Dog Blog» (kcdogblog.com), where he shares information about the fight against breed - specific legislation and no - kill practices.

Helping Ferrets The goals of the AFA are many: To promote the domestic ferret as a companion animal through public education via shows, newsletters, legislative education, and other venues; to protect the domestic ferret against anti-ferret legislation, mistreatment, unsound breeding practices and overpopulation, needless scientific research, and any practice deemed to lower the health standards or survivability of the animal; and to provide constant and up - to - date information about veterinarians, legislative activities, medical developments, research data, rescue shelters and other information of interest to ferret fanciers everywhere.

Although the Belgian trade practices legislation has already been under investigation several times and has even been declared incompatible with the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (Directive 2005 / 29 / EC) by the EU Court of Justice (e.g. Pelckmans Turnhout NV against Walter Van Gastel Balen NV a.o.; WAMO BVBA against JBC NV and Modemakers Fashion NV; VTB - VAB against Total Belgium, and Galatea against Sanoma Magazines), the Belgian legislator nonetheless «maintained» certain strict rules.

How does Ontario's workers» compensation system help or hinder the protection of injured workers — immediately and over time — against negative economic, social, physical and mental health consequences of injury and how legislation, policies, programs and practices can best support injured workers?.

Finally, when the deleterious effects are balanced against the salutary effects of the impugned legislation, the impact of the limit on religious practice is disproportionate.