Sentences with phrase «major substantive changes»

Both of those accompanied major substantive changes in those areas of law.

Philip Lapin, a partner of Smart & Biggar in Ottawa, says most trademark reforms deal with procedures, one major substantive change is that trademarking of soundmarks is now allowed.

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The first Omnibus bill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itself.

But the sustained anti-bank rhetoric, the demonisation of the industry, the failure to recognise the very major and important substantive changes that it has made, and the potential of yet more taxes to come, are all contributing to the impression overseas that the UK is becoming increasingly hostile to the industry.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

One notable exception is the fact that the revised plan does not acknowledge the substantive and procedural contributions of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (NAST, 2001), a major focus of the Global Change Research Program (GCRP) in the late 1990s.

The submission of material subjected to editorial revision by another person that results in substantive changes in content or major alteration of writing style.

Big coal's presence throughout this long election season as a major sponsor of the presidential debates stands in striking opposition to the absence of any substantive political discussions about climate change in the debates themselves.

It is evident that major reforms will be required before substantive positive changes in the Indigenous graduation rates and outcomes at the secondary and post-secondary education levels will emerge.

And, while substantive consequences can appear to be years away, major health insurance changes are already in the works as health insurance companies across the nation scramble to modify their business model to match the tidal shift coming to the health insurance industry.

According to the Climate and Health Alliance, neither of the major parties has credible climate change policies, and nor do they have any substantive policies to reduce the risks to the health of the Australian community from climate change.