Sentences with phrase «nation of law»

Despite the perverse tendency of the competitive job market in law teaching to create a whole nation of law faculty who mimic their mentors at the elite schools, there has also been a recent increase in differentiation and specialization among law schools, as they are forced to pay more attention to local employment markets.

Who wants a nation of law - abiding citizens?

«Let's face it: The reason why so many people come to America is because we are a nation of laws, and Texas is doing its part to keep it that way,» Abbott said in the Associated Press.

This is a secular nation of laws.

Since this is a secular nation of laws, not religion, Roe may not be perfect, but it is consistent with our fundamental principles despite the sincere assertions of our fellow citizens.

They finally realized that we live in a nation of laws based on the Consti.tution and that a majority of people were beginning to appreciate that fact.

We're a nation of laws that protect people from (for example) pedophile Christian priests and Christian terrorists who blow up abortion clinics.

A nation of laws.

There is, doubtless, a large dose of self - righteous speculation about our strengths and virtues as a nation of laws and not of persons.

We are a nation of laws, laws that are already set, and can not be changed to suit a situation or the current popular opinion.

As attorney general I would do everything I could do to ensure that everybody plays by the same set of rules; that we return to the idea of being that nation of laws, not a nation of men and women.

Gibson called the immigration system «broken,» and said «we are at once a nation of laws and immigrants.»

«America is a nation of laws, and those laws provide rights that must be respected and followed regardless of political ideology.»

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner tweeted that the DACA repeal has disregarded American's tradition as «a nation of laws and a nation of compassion.»

So clearly, some laws are meant to be laws and therefore, as a nation of laws, they must be followed while other laws are apparently more like technicalities or optional guidelines.

A nation of laws expresses its values through its statutes and court decisions, and the country appears to be on its way toward another reset of the power balance between the sexes.

But it's clear that this kind of incident can't be tolerated in a nation of laws.

It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves, once again, that we live in a nation of laws.

We are a nation of laws governing people.

If we're to remain a nation of laws, these are the battlegrounds.

It's about preserving our status as a nation of laws.

Codes and cases are the very operating system of our nation of laws, and this system only works if we can all openly read the primary sources.»

To me, it's a fundamental basic need in a democracy — if we are a nation of laws, people should be able to freely read and access those laws.

We are a nation of laws, yet we do not provide legal support in any comprehensive way for the millions of people who can not afford a lawyer when they really need one — victims of natural disasters, battered women, children fleeing persecution in their home countries, and many others.

The United States of America is a nation of laws.

Not exact matches

TORONTO, April 23 - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations on Monday united to condemn Russia for behavior that they said undermined international laws, and called on Moscow to help resolve the conflict in Syria.

Over the course of the 2016 campaign, Clarke was elevated to the mantel of the nation's most divisive law - enforcement figure.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)-- Malaysia's image as a striving, modern nation that upholds the rule of law has been undermined by an epic corruption scandal at state investment fund 1MDB.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

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The United States is a rule - of - law nation, and encryption technology is creating a space that is in some ways beyond the reach of the law.

I question, though, the judgment of legalizing with a stroke of the pen everybody who is here, because that's basically saying that we as a nation will turn a blind eye to our own laws.

Ryan Bethencourt, program director and venture partner at San Francisco's Indie.Bio, the nation's first synthetic - biology accelerator, says that when one applies cost reductions to Moore's Law (the concept that digital technology will increase in power at an exponential rate), the landscape of business opportunities is limitless.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

As mentioned many times before in these blogs about the show, a scary proportion of these aspiring inventors are sadly ignorant about our nation's patent, copyright, and trademark laws.

This accord -; one of the few provisions welcomed by environmental groups -; allows groups and ordinary citizens to accuse member nations of failing to enforce their own environmental laws.

ICE public affairs officer Thomas Byrd said in a statement, «Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation's immigration laws.»

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

In the 1930s, governments introduced a vast collection of labour laws to assuage the grievances of a burgeoning working class, and Castelli says the laws have become ingrained in the commercial ethos of the nation.

It was a rare triumph of compromise and regulatory sanity in the nation's capital — a law that recognized regulations are both necessary and frequently overbroad.»

A bipartisan group of leading senators unveiled an agreement Monday on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the final version of a GOP - backed tax plan Tuesday that would overhaul the nation's tax laws for the first time in decades.

Tech executives in Idaho, for example, are calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law — one of the most restrictive in the nation — that impedes an employee's ability to change jobs.

The law would provide justice to some of the most vulnerable people in our nation: young people who do not have homes and do not have the strong family support needed to keep them free from people who would exploit them.

The new law is the nation's first formal approval of the industry after its come under scrutiny across many states for allowing what regulators see as illegal online gambling.

«Both leaders condemned North Korea's September 9 nuclear test and resolved to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including by invigorating cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law enforcement channels on North Korea,» a White House statement said.

But whether Tasers are truly reducing law enforcement's use of deadly force remains questionable in a nation where 20 percent of arrests entail some use of force.

Canadian companies have been operating in some of the most corrupt countries in the world for decades, but guess how many successful prosecutions there have been under foreign bribery laws in the history of our nation.

«the landscape of the nation's employment laws will have significantly changed.»

«The FBI is one of our nation's most cherished and respected institutions, and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,» Trump said in a statement issued by the White House.