Sentences with phrase «nation in our fairness»

We want to be the leader of the nation in our fairness to the poorest workers in the State.

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Wells Fargo, in Human Rights Campaign's most recent corporate equality index, an annual ranking of the nation's largest businesses for LGBT workplace fairness, has a perfect score of 100.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

But in fairness, how can people come to a serious agreement when some nations are doing their best to derail the process?

Yet it must be said in fairness that there is probably as much paternalism in the liberal's all-wise insistence on «appropriate technology» in the face of a new nation's determination to have its own steel plants as in the conservative's all-wise insistence on monogamous marriage in the face of tribal insistence on polygamy.

Mr Koky Anyidoho was optimistic that in the face of fairness and good judgment, he will also be given a Judge to quickly look into the issue as he put it «about Bawumia's attempt to burn and destroy this nation through criminal act by providing a fake document to mislead a public officer» in this case the Electoral Commission.

In his liberal - themed speech, Malloy called on the state legislature to send a message to the nation that Connecticut stands for fairness, amid growing national inequity and unfairness.

As the FBI's Russia investigation draws closer to him, President Trump unleashed an extraordinary assault on the nation's premier law enforcement agency, calling it a biased institution whose reputation for fairness was «in tatters.»

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. — October 6, 2016... Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's original and largest organization representing gay conservatives and allies who support fairness, freedom, and equality for all Americans, has endorsed John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate for Congress in the 19th District, his campaign announced today.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

It flies in the face of science, fairness, common sense and the Governor's own greenhouse gas reduction targets to build new fracked gas power plants at a time when climate change is the most pressing issue facing our nation and the world.

BE THAT AS IT IS, NIGERIA AS CONSTITUTED BY THE BRITISH IS YOUNGER THAN THIS PRE-EXISTING POLITICAL ENTITIES BUT IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THEY CO-EXISTED, HOWEVER THE MERGER OF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH AND THE EMERGENT NORTH - WEST, SOUTH - SOUTH, NORTH - EAST, SOUTH - EAST,, SOUTH - WEST, NORTH - CENTRAL STRUCTURE IS ONE THAT CAN ONLY THRIVE IN JUSTICE, THAT IS JUSTICE, RULE OF LAW AND FAIRNESS IS THE ONLY GLUE THAT CAN BIND THIS NATION TOGETHER OTHERWISE IT IS AN ENTITY BLOWING IN THE WIND

It is the main reason that the country ranked 55th of 158 nations — last among Western democracies — in a 2017 index of voting fairness run by the Electoral Integrity Project, an academic collaboration between the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Moreover, the fact that people in developing nations are born into predicaments that most people in the Western world can't fathom may lead gifted children to question the fairness of the universe.

A nationwide study on «school funding fairness» conducted by the Education Law Center finds North Carolina is one of the least fair states in the nation, earning a grade of «F» for its education spending in relation to the state's economic productivity.

Recently, the head of the Small Business Administration, Maria Contreras - Sweet, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress where she detailed the agency's expanded use of small business credit scores in an effort to streamline the lending process, improve accuracy, ensure fairness and, most importantly, facilitate the provision of more small loans to the nation's entrepreneurs.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Because of this, perhaps the most important immediate goal of climate change policy proponents is to help educate civil society and governments about the need to move urgently to make extremely rapid decreases in ghg emissions whereever governments can and to the maximum extent possible in light of the policy implications of limiting national ghg emissions to levels constrained by a carbon budget and in response to what fairness requires of nations..

Although there is a difference of opinion in the «equity» literature about how to consider valid equity considerations including per capita, historical emissions levels, and the economic capabilities of nations to fiance non-fossil energies, all nations agree that national commitments about ghg emissions reductions must consider fairness.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Although reasonable people may disagree what equity framework is just, nations should be expected to expressly specify the equity framework or principles of distributive justice they used in determining their INDC so that citizens around the world can evaluate claims about fairness made by a nation in setting its INDC.

The ethical basis for why national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations, emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.

Although as we have seen what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions, a claim by almost any nation in the top 80 percent of global per capita emissions that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.

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After the O.J. trial Johnnie was in high demand, and he sought the best avenue to bring his message of justice and fairness to the nation.

A recent Alberta decision has rejected the province's argument that it does not owe a duty of procedural fairness to First Nations in determining whether the Crown's duty to consult is triggered.

The Tribunal ruling was a victory not only for First Nations kids, but for all Canadians who believe in love and fairness.

«These funds support community - based organizations that do great work every day on the front lines in the fight for fairness and equality in our nation's housing market,» HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in a news release.

At the same time, philanthropy can also benefit by embracing civil legal aid as part of its tool kit to advance housing, education, economic security, and other causes central to fairness and prosperity in our nation.

In fairness to the South American nation, its cryptocurrency is not a Ponzi scheme.

If we are a nation that believes in fairness and dignity for all, then we will not hesitate to commit to this goal and do so in a specific, targeted way.

«Measures like these acknowledge that if we believe in fairness and justice for everyone, and know that our diversity makes us richer, we can come together to make a nation we can all be proud of,» Mr. Mohamed added.