Sentences with phrase «of key amendments»

Democrats may have lost more than Republicans, as several of the key amendments pushed by Murray and Democratic leadership did not pass.

Fears are growing across the labour movement that unless the Government backs a series of key amendments to the Employment Bill as it enters its key Commons» stages on Tuesday (November 4th) trade unions will become highly vulnerable to infiltration from the BNP and the far right.

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By 335 votes to 244, the House of Lords backed an amendment to the government's key Brexit bill to give Parliament decision - making power on the outcome of negotiations with the EU — including the power to call off the divorce.

A key part of the legislation that has gotten significant attention is the crowdfunding amendment, which was introduced to the bill by Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Because this feuding annoyed our key founders so greatly, they made it a top priority to establish the separation of church and state (and to make it Amendment # 1 of our Constitution).

That was an amazing feat, taking place at a time when the amendment's feminist and liberal supporters seemed to be in control of every American institution except the White House, but I was living in California at the time, and the key battles of the ERA had taken place in geographically and culturally distant states: Florida, Illinois, North Carolina.

The primary framer for the 1st Amendment was Madison, who also was the key framer in much of the first ten Amendments.

Compost also plays a key role for soil management, but unlike in Biodynamics, Nature Farming typically does not utilize animals, it does not put the same emphasis on crops grown for animal consumption, and avoids the use of animal manure and waste products as soil amendments.

1978 Research and policy recommendations by FRAC play a key role in passage of the Child Nutrition Amendments of 1978, which greatly expand the WIC and School Breakfast Programs.

According to the report, Senate suspended the consideration of the bill which sought to amend Section 308 (2) of the 1999 Constitution to allow for the prosecution of the affected leaders on matters relating to economic and financial crimes even when in office, because it was introduced to the Senate after the constitution review committee had submitted a report on the key amendments to be effected in the life of the Eighth National Assembly.

Although perhaps not initially obvious from the legal wording of the text, the key part of this amendment is the section that allows the government to enact laws that are an «obligation of membership of the Communities».

We will be suggesting amendments to the Directive in this and other key areas, and would urge MEPs to consider the needs of savers.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

The pension forfeiture amendment had been a key reform for lawmakers and good - government groups after a spate of corruption arrests engulfed the Capitol.

A coalition of business interests, many of which are members or partners of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, are lobbying legislative leaders to reject a key element of the cost - cutting and reform plan put forward by the Medicaid Redesign Team and embraced by the governor in his 30 - day amendments.

Because of that bind, some key Democrats have pushed quietly for President Barack Obama to ask Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy — a Vermont Democrat who is a major backer of the same - sex amendment in the bill — to wait to offer it until the entire measure goes to the floor, POLITICO reported recently.

The key argument is over amendment 7, tabled by Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general and backed by a significant number of Tories, as well as the opposition parties.

Senators are starting to head to their conference room on the third floor of the state Capitol because they want to discuss some key bills expected to come up for a vote today — including Sen. John Bonacic's constitutional amendment redistricting measure — but they're pledging to walk out if Kruger shows up.

Faso, along with Rep. Chris Collins, has sought to play a key role in the shape of the legislation, adding an amendment that would require the state to take on the county - level costs of the Medicaid program in New York.

The group is proposing a series of amendments which bring together key issues for unions, ranging from the right to expel those with racist views to measures to improve the balloting process and action to prevent agency workers being used to undermine lawful industrial disputes.

Cuomo met personally with fence - sitting lawmakers and was involved in the crafting of the religious exemption amendment, which would prove key in winning Republican support.

The teacher evaluation plan, as well as the agreement over the appeals process, will now become part of the governor's 30 day budget amendments, but the difference is that now all of the key parties agree to the provisions.

Their amendment demands an «urgent summit» of key stakeholder organisations «to plan health reforms based on the coalition agreement».

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) would have risked destabilising key sections of its party structure if it had considered some proposals for amendments to its Constitution, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has said.

(CNN)-- A key player in negotiations over potential gun control legislation said on Tuesday a planned GOP filibuster of the bill won't occur if Democrats allow Republicans to bring amendments up for a vote.

This happens because a key behavioural characteristic of Defence Contractors is that they will always choose to conceal technical risks identified early in the programme, by engaging with procurement officials and getting them to focus on declared risks which ordinarily fall in the trivia category, whilst skilfully diverting their attention away from those really huge «show stopping» risks which they will only reveal later on, when things go wrong, to realise their objective of «growing» the Contract by getting Abbey Wood Team Leader to raise Contract Amendments and / or let Post Design Services Contracts.

While politicians are still working on the final wording of the amendment, «[t] he agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»»

The large numbers reflect an amendment to the Senate version of the bill successfully added by Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who was one of three key Republican senators whose support for the stimulus package allowed it to pass the Senate.

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) is Lincoln's most trusted advisor, though the key to the amendment's ratification rests with radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens (a typically acerbic Tommy Lee Jones).

Working with his once - rival Secretary of State Henry Seward (a low - key David Strathairn), he hires two proto - lobbyists (James Spader and John Hawkes) to woo as many lame - duck Democrats as possible to the amendment's cause, using the promise of government appointments in their home states to sweeten the deal.

Over the weekend, negotiations with the teachers» unions and HELP committee members led to the release of a manager's amendment that removed a key provision.

Coutinho said key amendments would be filed on Monday, including possibly those dealing with seniority rights and with the dismissal process of ineffective teachers.

The Greens, having done good work to secure the key amendments, succumbed at the last to the pressure of the Australian Education Union.

Although CTA has not taken an official position on the proposed funding and other amendments, she said many of the bill's provisions addressed key union concerns, including allocating funding to train administrators on how to perform evaluations.

Another key question also arises: is it a violation of the first amendment when private schools that have a clear religious agenda interwoven into their educational program also receive taxpayer funds?

During six years working with the Commission, Sharon played key roles in the development of regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act; the development of the Commission's Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues, and the Commission's work on Title VII's sex discrimination provision as it pertains to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons.

Mr. Peterson said the key differences between the amendment and the new Senate Bill 331 are added enforcement by the Department of Agriculture and tracking of puppies as they go through the process in an attempt to address concerns some pet brokers were selling dogs to stores that had actually been obtained from puppy mills.

This report provides updates on the work of key standards bodies relevant to the cooling sector and outlines the climate imperative of modernizing standards for successful implementation of the Kigali Amendment and the ongoing HCFC phase - out.

«Our leadership in the Southcoast delegation ensured significant procurement of renewable offshore wind, utilizing New Bedford as the main port,» said State Senator Mark C. Montigny (D - New Bedford), who authored key amendments during the 2016 energy debate to ensure stable and consistent offshore wind procurements.

The work of the initiative therefore creates a direct intersect between three internationally agreed goals for the first time: the Paris Climate Agreement; the Sustainable Development Goals; and the Montreal Protocol's Kigali Amendment * — with one of the key goals of the amendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refriAmendment * — with one of the key goals of the amendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refriamendment to limit consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas used widely in air conditioners and refrigerators.

When a computer is in screensaver mode, does a police officer's touching a key or moving the mousepad in order to reveal the contents of the screen constitute a Fourth Amendment «search»?

In the Pringle case, a preliminary reference from the Irish Supreme Court, one of the two key issues to be decided by the CJEU was whether a pending amendment to the EU Treaties was validly adopted (see Laurens» post re: the ESM Treaty).

As NSU explains, «This course provides hands - on experience for students on a number of key operational aspects of the practice of law, including the business foundation of successful law firm management; security and confidentiality of client information; marketing, public relations, advertising and social media; duties of technological competence under ABA «Ethics 20/20» amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility; predictive coding and other eDiscovery issues; client intake and case management; and issues related to the scope and composition of representation, including the unauthorized practice of law and unbundled legal services.»

In re Boucher (2009): The United States District Court for the District of Vermont held that if the contents of the encrypted files are generally known to the government, then revealing the encryption key is not self - incrimination, and Fifth Amendment protections do not apply.

Of the four key documents in existence at the time Dwane entered into his purchase agreement — namely, the disclosure statement and three amendments — Dwane did not receive two of the amendments either before or at the time he entered into his purchase agreemenOf the four key documents in existence at the time Dwane entered into his purchase agreement — namely, the disclosure statement and three amendments — Dwane did not receive two of the amendments either before or at the time he entered into his purchase agreemenof the amendments either before or at the time he entered into his purchase agreement.

«The scope of our review is very broad and, while we intend to deal with a variety of matters,... our key focus will be on vulnerable workers in precarious jobs and the need for legislative amendments to address some of the issue facing these workers,» wrote the special advisors in their interim report.

After all, the court's docket includes key cases that will test the limits of the First Amendment.

However, in a surprising move, an amendment introduced by Conservative Senator Hugh Segal and passed by a majority of Senators, including 15 other Conservative senators, gutted the key substantive provisions of the bill.