Sentences with phrase «not by government decree»

Above the minimum wage, what a private employer pays and what an employee is willing to work for should be a private transaction driven by market forces, not by government decree.

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The official exchange rate will be set based on the renminbi's trading performance, not simply by a government decree.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

For instance, a government decree that all new vehicles meet a certain efficiency standard can not be circumvented by cutting emissions somewhere else; by contrast, both carbon taxes and cap - and - trade schemes leave it up to firms and individuals to choose where to cut emissions.

What «tort reform» aims to do is to issue, by government decree, that individuals and classes of people should not be able to bring civil actions in certain instances and / or should be limited in the amount they are able to recover by a predetermined structure as opposed to the judgment rendered by a jury of their peers.

At the same time, this compensation should not go under the minimum wage line as decreed by the federal government.

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance under these Agent Terms due to fire, explosion, earthquake, storm, flood or other weather, unavailability of necessary utilities or raw materials, war, terrorism, insurrection, riot, act of God or the public enemy, law, act, order, export control regulation, proclamation, decree, regulation, ordinance, or instructions of Government or other public authorities, or judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction (not arising out of breach by such party of these Agent Terms).