Sentences with phrase «live up to our obligations of»

Edley has complained, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (February 14, 2007), that parents and the public can not get in the courthouse door to argue that officials are failing to live up to the obligations of education statutes: «If the state fails to enforce environmental regulations against a polluter, members of the public can not only go to the ballot box, they can also go to court.

The fact that L.A. Unified's school leaders has done a shoddy job of evaluating its teachers — with 60 percent of tenured veterans and 30 percent of new hires going without performance assessments in the 2009 - 2010 school year, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality — is evidence of how poorly the district has done in living up to its obligation of providing all children attending its schools with high - quality education.

Not exact matches

Berlin also reacted furiously at Washington's reminder to live up to its NATO obligations of keeping defense spending at 2 percent of GDP.

Veterans or service members typically have a highly developed code of honor and integrity that mandates they live up to life's obligations, including the financial ones, making them desirable customers for financial lenders,» Kennedy says.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

The state and its agencies, including the public schools and colleges, can be true to the principle of religious liberty without giving up their primary obligation to promote the religious life, in the fundamental sense of reverent devotion.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

Reading the bible takes a life time obligation, none of which atheists are up to meet that standard, since you are a trash and burn mentality.

Others may begin the fast, but give up after a few days either because they are physically or mentally unable to live up to the heavy strain of the fasting obligation, or simply because they are not able to generate the will power required for the fast.

The board of education needs to live up to their obligations, they need to find a way to work with our kid, that's their job.

You are inviting a lot of legal involvement in your life and finances if you don't live up to your mandated child support obligations.

The UK must live up to its international legal and moral obligations, especially when the majority of nation states have renounced the development of their own nuclear weapons.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

I believe we all observe the basic social criteria that... «Protecting human lives and their basic rights of living supersedes teaching, doing business or doing research»;... Before this case clarified, and those fascists along with this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler and Sebastian Thrun being concurred, I bet nobody would like to play up personnels associated with fascism crimes, the likes of Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler, nor cover up their fascism crimes and everybody has the obligation to fight against such anti-humanity crimes;

In his sharpest critique yet of scofflaw landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said it's «outrageous» that thousands of New York City property owners accepted tax benefits from the city in exchange for limiting rent increases but did not live up to their obligations.

Adekomi commended the state government for living up to its statutory obligations even in the face of the current economic realities.

He wants to determine whether the companies lived up to legal obligations to provide a safe supply of power in a reliable manner.

This weekend's agreement by nearly 200 members of the Montreal Protocol will be legally binding, inviting trade sanctions for countries that fail to live up to their obligations.

«So much of what ends up as clutter are tasks that we havent finished or obligations we havent been able to meet,» says professional organizer Emily Wilska, founder of San Francisco — based The Organized Life.

Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and rising young star Lucas Hedges (from both Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel), the film tells the story of Lee, a Boston handyman (played by Affleck) who is crippled by the sanctity of his own bitter isolation up until he is, ultimately, forced to face those tragedies of the past as well as welcome life - changing obligations following the unexpected death of his older brother.

If we are to live up to our obligations to God and our fellow man — and be the city upon a hill that Jonathan Edwards and Ronald Reagan said we must be — then the patchwork of standards currently in place can't stay the status quo.

Meanwhile reformers have learned the importance of holding politicians responsible for not living up to their obligations to expand opportunities for children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

He said it was the moral obligation of the education reform movement to stand up to the status quo and save the lives of these children, many of whom could be doomed to a life of crime and poverty without a good education.

Counterparty risk is the risk to each party of a contract that the counterparty will not live up to its contractual obligations.

In this line of business, we assume from another insurer the obligation to pay up to a specified amount for losses they have already incurred — often for events that took place decades earlier — but that are yet to be paid (for example, because a worker hurt in 1980 will receive monthly payments for life).

Since it takes the average student many years to repay student loan debt in British Columbia and since it can be difficult to obtain long - term, sustainable employment in their chosen career, it is not surprising that after years of struggle many discover that they are not able to keep up with their student loan repayment obligation and find the outstanding balance prohibitive, limiting their lives accordingly.

Individual contracts / credit agreements will outline the terms of your obligation to the creditor and if you are failing to live up to those conditions, your credit report will show this fact to other creditors viewing your credit report.

However, even with such the array of breaks, military personal loans still have to be repaid and the borrower must live up to their financial obligations.

The responsible entity has obligations to run and manage the agribusiness scheme for the life of the scheme, which could be up to 20 years.

If you find yourself living paycheck to paycheck or unable to meet your monthly obligations, maybe you should visit a website like DebtHelp.com or talk to a debt management professional to see about setting up a plan to possible consolidate some of you debts.

Many breeders sell puppies on a co-ownership basis for many reasons which may include show purposes or to ensure that the puppy purchasers live up to their obligations in the care and socialization of the puppies.

Putting this at the top of my list felt like somewhat of an obligation due to all the hype, but to be fair, it did live up to that hype.

That achievement in the arts, as in any field of endeavor, demands struggle and sacrifice, no one would deny; that this has certainly been true after the middle of the 19th century, when the traditional institutions of artistic support and patronage no longer fulfilled their customary obligations, is undeniable: one has only to think of Delacroix, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh and Toulouse - Lautrec as examples of great artists who gave up the distractions and obligations of family life, at least in part, so that they could pursue their artistic careers more singlemindedly.

And so because the position of the ten senators as stated in their letter to Obama appears to assume that the US obligations to the rest of the world on climate change are not triggered unless other nations are living up to US expectations of them, this opposition to US climate change legislation is ethically problematic.

Second, patients could argue that the government failed to live up to obligations created by either section 7 or section 15 of the Charter.

A legal separation agreement will protect you during a separation in case your spouse fails to live up to their obligations — the court will be able to enforce the agreements that each of you made.

He also argued against a provision of the bill that allows shareholders to file suit if a B corp fails to live up to its public - benefit obligations.»

Your slip and fall lawyer in DC can help you to prove the extent of responsibility the property owner had and can help you to show that the property owner should be held responsible for failing to live up to basic safety obligations.

So he feels a sense of personal obligation to make sure that he lives up to that.

For the sake of argument, we'll define ethics as the well - founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues; the study and development of one's standards and beliefs to ensure they're reasonable and well - founded; and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly - based.

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I wonder, if they ultimately succeed in their campaign to blackball TWU and are overturned by the courts (as happened to the BC college of teachers dealing with the self - same issue, and will almost certainly happen in Ontario), will Mr. Mulligan and his ilk report themselves for failing to live up to THEIR obligations as lawyers in the province of British Columbia to protect the rights and freedoms of TWU graduates.

Eli Lederman, a partner at Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP, says a recent Court of Appeal decision in Ontario adds to a growing trend that suggests trial judges may have greater freedom to determine whether parties are living up to their contractual obligations.

For most people — especially now that the individual estate tax threshold is so high — life insurance should be a temporary stopgap, to be used during that period of your life when you have family and financial obligations but haven't yet built up enough savings to self - insure.

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Thus, the premium earned by an insurance company suggests whether or not, the life insurance company be able to fulfill its obligation of making up for the loss of the insured in case of an eventuality.

One of the great performers in the life insurance industry recently did that and because they were unable to fulfill their obligation to their policy owners ended up in the courts and lost.

In a town where over a quarter of its residents live below the poverty line according to the U.S. Census [1], keeping up with financial obligations can be stressful at best.