Sentences with phrase «main purpose of these laws»

Former Michigan State Representative Paul Opsommer was quoted in an article in the Lansing State Journal, however, as saying that writing traffic tickets was not the main purpose of the law against texting and driving.

The main purpose of these laws is safety.

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When it comes to the obstruction portion of the investigation, Mueller is said to be focused on three main episodes: Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey last May; the drafting of a misleading statement about the purpose of a June 2016 meeting between Don Jr., Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner and a group of Russians at Trump Tower; and the disclosure that Trump considered firing Mueller last June.

The main purpose of an IIA is to offer foreign investors and their investments protection under international law when they encounter problems in foreign jurisdictions, such as expropriation, discrimination, unfair treatment, losses resulting from conflict, war and strife, or limitations in the cross-border transfer of investment - related funds.

Around 1835, laws were passed in England prohibiting bull baiting and the Olde English Bulldogges main purpose of existence vanished.

The emissivity of the Earth is over 0.97 and a perfect black body is 1.0 so, for all intents and purposes, the Watts / m ^ 2 calculated by the Carleton spreadsheet based on Plank's Law may be off by only a small number of Watts / m ^ 2 and my main claim is that there are hundreds of Watts / m ^ 2 streaming down from the Atmosphere, so a few Watts here or there is a drop in a bucket.

It follows that, in so far as the benefit in question in the main proceedings fulfils the purpose set out in that article of the Charter, it can not be considered, under European Union law, as not being part of core benefits within the meaning of Article 11 (4) of Directive 2003/109.

The AG suggested, in reference to the first question referred for a preliminary ruling, that the Court must declare that it has jurisdiction for the main reason that the HTSs should be regarded as acts of the institutions, bodies, offices or agencies of the Union for the purposes of Article 267 of the Treaty on the functioning of the Union («TFEU»), which is the primary law basis of the cooperation between the CJEU and the national courts via the preliminary ruling system.

The appeal raises one main question: whether the three factors which courts are to consider in deciding the standing issue are to be treated as a rigid checklist or as considerations to be taken into account and weighed in exercising judicial discretion in a way that serves the underlying purposes of the law of standing.

Many states have taken steps to summarize the development of personal injury law in written statutes, but for practical purposes court decisions remain the main source of the law in any legal case arising from an accident or injury.

Re New Paragon Investments Ltd: [2012] BCC 371 Obtained an order recognising a creditors» voluntary liquidation under the law of Hong Kong as foreign main proceedings for the purposes of the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 and a declaration that there was an automatic stay of proceedings against the debtor, including arbitrations.

However, he said the main purpose of Cambridge Analytica, SCL and other linked companies, was not merely to win elections, but to use their role in those elections to «capture» governments and then use those contacts to change laws and regulations for the benefit of other companies.