Sentences with phrase «new legal powers»

The Prince Edward Island Office of the Superintendent of Securities and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) have announced that IIROC has been granted new legal powers to strengthen its discipline of wrongdoers — important steps in enhancing consumer protection in the province.

Justice O'Connor determined that with «enhanced information sharing, new legal powers and responsibilities, and increased integration in national security policing» it was time for an overhaul to the approach taken to review of the RCMP and the numerous other agencies and government departments involved in national security.

The demands come as the DfES published guidelines concerning new legal powers available to teachers.

Since 1997, the government has given the police new resources and parliament has provided new legal powers to arrest and try terrorists.

Not exact matches

In some states, like Ohio, fights have broken out among anti-abortion activists over how to use their new - found power, with one faction pushing for sweeping new restrictions and the other urging more incremental limits that they say will withstand legal challenges.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

The treaty seeks not only to confer power to corporations at the expense of governments and communities, but also to secure such power by providing a new and unique avenue for legal redress.

They jeered and shouted when McGowan attempted to explain why she was voting to authorize the legal challenge to the new Washington appointees and the stripping of executive powers from Kelly.

The board authorized Netsch to hire a new legal consultant, presumably to replace general counsel Michael Hennessy, a Kelly loyalist who led an unsuccessful legal battle to keep Kelly in power.

«I demand ICE immediately cease and desist this pattern of conduct, and if they fail to do so, I will pursue all available legal recourse and commit to doing everything in my power to protect the rights and safety of all New Yorkers.

So far, Cameron has secured a legal statement that the UK is not committed to further political integration; new powers for national parliaments to club together to block new EU laws; a form of words that commits the EU to strengthening the internal market and cutting red tape; and an «emergency brake» on welfare payments to EU migrants.

The Legal Aid Society challenged the state's new familial DNA testing proposal, saying the move is an abuse of power.

«Any prospective Attorney General candidate with respect for the office, separation of powers and a commitment to preserving the integrity of an ongoing legal proceeding would tell the Governor where to stick his interview because the Attorney General of New York doesn't work for you,» Molinaro said.

Then there is the regulatory issue, where he needs to create authorities capable of handling the deluge of new powers about to be regained for Britain, for instance on fisheries or pharmaceuticals, and give them legal recognition in law.

During the passage of the Same - Sex Marriage Act through Parliament, the BHA secured a section that gives the Government the power to give legal recognition to humanist marriages without requiring a new Act of Parliament to be passed.

With over 14 + years experience in community organizing, advocacy, and strategic outreach in underrepresented communities, she has utilized communications and legal theory to examine new tactics for digital mobilization and movement building, using social media platforms and narrative power analysis as it relates to the Latino outreach strategies.

The New York state attorney general in particular has more legal power than in other states, notably in business matters.

The Welsh Economy Minister would face an uphill battle over possible changes to business rate relief for charity shops according to Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Business Minister, Eluned Parrott AM, following legal advice that Welsh Ministers do not have the power to impose such changes without new primary legislation.

Entergy had said the plant was losing $ 100 million a year, so Cuomo's team of lawyers and finance experts figured out a legal path to seize FitzPatrick for $ 1 using the New York Power Authority's right of eminent domain.

Invites a years - long legal battle with New Jersey by granting subpoena power over the Port Authority to a Cuomo - appointed official.

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

And nuclear - power opponent groups are filing and winning legal fights to force utilities to present disposal plans for low - level waste before they can build a new reactor.

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«The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

Given the uncertain legal ground on which its new regime of not - quite - regulation rests, the department could face some unusual dilemmas if it attempts to bring federal power to bear against dissenters.

The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the Government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

«While parents desperately struggle to get their children a place in a local school, the government continues to promote its ideological free schools programme instead of giving local authorities the legal powers to open new schools where they are needed.»

In addition, legal powers to establish new maintained schools and to direct local schools to expand where additional places are needed, should be returned to local authorities.

Ram subjects every new part on the Power Wagon to its usual tests, including hot - and cold - weather trips, as well as the same legal and crash - test requirements as any other pickup truck.

Legal for sale in all fifty states (but not necessarily requiring a motorcycle license to operate), your new Morgan may scare children and upset the neighbors, but you'll hear it coming — a key safety attribute — and its made - in - America power won't confuse local mechanics.

Ford shows off at the Ring with a new road - legal Formula Ford single - seater, powered by a tuned version of the three - cylinder turbocharged EcoBoost engine.

After a new round of weight cuts and another power tweak, the Evora has reached a new zenith as the GT430, a limited - edition 190mph road - legal track weapon producing up to 250 kg of downforce

Expect power from the 5.9 litre V12 to jump up close to 600bhp, liberal use of carbon fibre and aluminium, carbon ceramic brakes, stripped - out interior, a new mesh grill, thumping great wing at the back and road - legal semi-slick tyres for maximum grip.

When asking some direct questions you get the silent treatment from those that know what's happening... a street legal Super Trofeo version question did get a «you are very close» response according to TeamSpeed, but no details or further elaboration could be recorded... so it can still go either way: a new limited edition high power Gallardo or a highly modified production version of the Paris concept car looking like a mix between the original Sesto Elemento concept, a Gallardo and a Super Trofeo race car... and street legal after all...

The street - legal, but drag - strip ready, HEMI powered 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will be unveiled at the upcoming New York International Auto Show.

Using the CRF450R moto - crosser as a base, Honda's new road - legal dual - purpose motorcycle has a tough, lightweight chassis built to find all the available grip, powered by an engine that delivers strong, usable power right from the bottom.

I realize in practical terms «submit to the new terms or take your book down» (or, even worse, «not even notice the new terms and be stuck with them after thirty days,») might not seem any different from «Amazon has the power to unilaterally alter the contract,» but in legal terms there's a real distinction.

Meeting with legal advisers to ensure that key documents such as wills, power of attorney and health directives are valid in the new jurisdiction.

He draws from his own experiences as a well - travelled Kenyan citizen to structure narratives around migratory identity, specifically how legal documentation and its powers of «legitimisation» can be literally «re-pulped» to make new material cartographies.

The cabinet in December 2012 agreed to fast - track construction (within four years) of 2,800 km of new power lines and upgrade of 2,900 km by designating, with approval from the country's 16 federal states, the Federal Grid Agency as the only competent planning authority and allocating legal disputes concerning the expansion to a single federal administrative court.

The rules on new power plants, which will face legal challenges, are the easy part.

That means that if the new source rule is struck down by courts, EPA may lose the legal prerequisite for the much more important Clean Power Plan.

Most importantly, changing the basis for the new source rule away from CCS would put it — and therefore the much more important Clean Power Plan — on much surer legal footing, with likely no practical difference in terms of the construction of new plants over the next decade.

If they withstand the expected legal challenges, the regulations will set in motion sweeping policy changes that could shut down hundreds of coal - fired power plants, freeze construction of new coal plants and create a boom in the production of wind and solar power and other renewable energy sources.

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club and WWF America lobbies against energy development in Africa, an American foundation with ties to Hilary Clinton funds serial, frivolous legal actions against an Indian power company in Australian courts and the World Bank is in a «race against time to stop construction of new coal - fired power plants across the globe».

When Jay O'Hara and his co-captain Ken Ward moored their lobster boat in the unloading dock of Brayton Point Power Station in New England, blockading a 40,000 ton coal shipment in the process, they were fully prepared to face the legal consequences of their actions (not to mention the usual tired old complaints about eco-hypocrisy).

We are pleased that an arrangement has been reached that ultimately replaces this outdated old power with new investment in the families of Lewis county and cleaner energy for our state,» said Janette Brimmer of Earthjustice who represented the Sierra Club, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center in numerous regulatory and legal actions that helped bring TransAlta to the negotiating table.

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