Sentences with phrase «legislation places pressure»

Joint custody legislation places pressure on litigants to negotiate a joint custody arrangement.

Not exact matches

The decision to introduce legislation to legalize cannabis, which the government hopes to have in place in July, has placed pressure on the government to establish national rules for workplace drug testing.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg came under pressure from Liberal Democrat backbenchers concerned that the legislation continues to place undue emphasis on competition in the health service.

In 1994, yielding to pressure from conservative groups, Governor Wilson vetoed legislation to continue funding for CLAS (Gonzales & Grubb, 1997), and the results of the 1992 and 1994 NAEP state - by - state comparisons placed California close to the bottom of the rankings in reading (Campbell, Donahue, Reese, & Phillips, 1996; Mullis, Campbell, & Farstrup, 1993).

Over the next few weeks, two national events will take place to help put pressure on our elected officials to enact legislation to combat gun violence.

I really hope the Keystone XL pipeline is not approved, but as Friedman says, with the right kind of grassroots reaction, perhaps enough political pressure can be placed on the President and members of Congress to actually get some significant legislation passed to slow climate change.

Even if the legislation took effect and emissions were curtailed, the world would still see disruptive pressures building in places already facing severe drought and flood risks with or without the added kick from greenhouse warming.